Helle Le Fevre discusses editing The Souvenir, her evolving collaboration with Joanna Hogg since Unrelated, working with improvised material, and collaborating with the sound team
Film Interviews
Interviews with female directors / Index of Interviews
Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.
Costume designer Grace Snell on The Souvenir
Costume designer Grace Snell discusses The Souvenir, revealing class through costume, sourcing period costumes, and the art of collaboration.
Stéphane Collonge on designing The Souvenir
In this interview, production designer Stéphane Collonge discusses his creative process and how the design of The Souvenir was meant to evoke memories. This is an excerpt from the ebook Tour of Memories: The Creative Process Behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir. To read the whole interview, get your copy of the book now. When Stéphane […]
Cinematographer David Raedeker on The Souvenir
In this interview excerpt from the ebook Tour of Memories: The Creative Process Behind Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, cinematographer David Raedeker discusses developing the film’s aesthetic, staying light on his toes, and using multiple film stocks.
An interview with Lulu Wang on framing a family in The Farewell
Orla Smith interviews The Farewell director Lulu Wang about making cinema of her own life and framing a family.
Director Sébastian Pilote on The Fireflies Are Gone
Director Sébastian Pilote and actress Karelle Tremblay discuss their award-winning coming-of-age story, The Fireflies Are Gone (La Disparition des Lucioles). This is an excerpt from our ebook The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook, which is available for purchase here.