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Interviews with female directors / Index of Interviews
Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.
Director Josh Mond and actor Christopher Abbott discuss how they collaborated to make the film. Mond also discusses developing the aesthetic for the film with his cinematographer. James White is now available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and to stream online.
[Read more…] about Josh Mond on the aesthetic of James White and working with Christopher Abbott
Writer-Director-Actress Julie Delpy discusses her consummately entertaining new movie, Lolo, which is chock full of the same joie de vivre Delpy channels in real life. Read more interviews with female directors here.
[Read more…] about Julie Delpy talks colour and comedy in LoloJoshua Oppenheimer discusses his collaboration with Adi Rukun, the importance of empathy, and the magical realist landscape and soundscape of his Oscar-nominated documentary The Look of Silence. This is an excerpt from the ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1.
To read the full interview, purchase a copy of the ebook here.
[Read more…] about Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his haunted, ‘magical realist’ doc The Look of SilenceCanadian director Chloé Leriche discusses Before The Streets (Avant Les Rues) and bringing the Atikamekw language and community to the big screen for the first time at this year’s Berlinale.
[Read more…] about Interview: Chloé Leriche on Before the Streets and indigenous cinema
Director Anne Zohra Berrached discusses 24 Weeks, her Berlinale Competition film about a couple who must decide whether to have a late abortion when they discover their child will have Down Syndrome. She explores the challenges of the subject matter and why she wanted non-professional actors for some of the parts.
[Read more…] about Anne Zohra Berrached on 24 Weeks at Berlinale
Irish writer-director Gerard Barrett’s second film, the sensitive and heartbreaking Glassland — about an almost grown boy, John (Jack Reynor) and the stress he faces when he’s forced to become his parent’s (Toni Collette) parent. At last year’s Sundance Film Festival, Barrett discussed how he got interested in the film, how he works with actors, and how he designed the aesthetic for the film. Read our review of the film here.
[Read more…] about Gerard Barrett on addiction and loneliness in Glassland