Amma Asante details the long road to making her passion project, Where Hands Touch, and explains the importance of nuance in her controversial love story.
Film Interviews
Interviews with female directors / Index of Interviews
Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.
Interview: Richard Eyre on the real-life stages on screen in The Children Act
Stage and screen directing legend Richard Eyre discusses the real-life stage that is the courtroom in The Children Act and directing for stage vs. screen. Read our review of the film here.
Director Tuva Novotny and actress Pia Tjelta discuss one-take wonder Blind Spot
Director Tuva Novotny and lead actress Pia Tjelta discuss Blind Spot, a technically and conceptually dazzling feature debut about the stigma around mental illness.
Bodies in space (and time): Richard Billingham discusses TIFF18 highlight Ray & Liz
Richard Billingham discusses his debut feature Ray & Liz, which viscerally recreates some of his own memories growing up in 1970s’ Birmingham.
Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman
Writer-director Darlene Naponse on Falls Around Her, making a film about an unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals and sound, and the respect and care required to film on reservation land. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
Interview: Carmel Winters on her TIFF Discovery film Float Like a Butterfly
Irish writer-director Carmel Winters discusses her second feature, Float Like a Butterfly, a female coming-of-age story set in the 1970s amongst the Irish Travellers community.