Writer-director Jennifer Phang’s Netflix film Advantageous is a feminist science fiction film for lovers of French New Wave cinema and intimate family dramas. It deals with issues of race, motherhood, and economic hardship.
Film Interviews
Interviews with female directors / Index of Interviews
Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.
Maxime Giroux on his wonderful Hasidic Jew romance Felix and Meira
Maxime Giroux discusses his new film about a Hasidic Jewish woman in Montreal who is thinking about leaving her community. It won Best Canadian Film at TIFF 2014.
Director Kornél Mundruczó and Animal Trainer Teresa Miller talk White God
Director Kornél Mundruczó and animal trainer Teresa Miller on White God, aesthetic approach, street dogs, and the importance of “Hungarian Rhapsody.”
Interview: ’71 Director Yann Demange talks shooting 16 mm vs digital
In this interview, Yann Demange discusses his first feature, ’71, shooting on digital and 16 mm, working with the super talented Jack O’Connell, and more. This interview with Yann Demange was one of the first conducted on ’71. Read our review of the film ’71 here. After a year-long tour on the festival circuit following […]
Queen and Country director John Boorman’s 8 lessons
British writer-director John Boorman has been making films since the 1960s, and has said that Queen and Country — a sequel to his autobiographical World War II-era story of childhood, Hope and Glory (1987) — which opened on Friday, will be his last. Set nine years after Hope and Glory in 1952, our hero Bill (Callum Turner) is […]
SFFS Artist-in-Residence Sally El Hosaini on writing and directing My Brother the Devil
Sally El Hosaini’s directorial debut, My Brother the Devil, is a touching and sensitive story of two Arab brothers in Hackney, London. During her sojourn in San Francisco as the San Francisco Film Society’s Artist-in-Residence, I sat down with El Hosaini to discuss her writing process, working with non-actors, her shoot, and her approach to the film’s aesthetic. […]