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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.

Tangerine, Sean Baker

Alex Heeney / July 7, 2015

Director Sean Baker talks finding the look for Tangerine

Sean Baker talks about Tangerine and how he created such stunning visuals when shooting on an iPhone. Read our review of Baker’s follow-up film, The Florida Project. It’s Christmas Eve in Santa Monica, but the transgender women at the center of writer-director Sean Baker’s Tangerine aren’t celebrating the holiday. Nobody outright says it in the film, […]

Alex Heeney / May 8, 2015

Director Shira Piven talks Welcome to Me, Chauncey Gardner, and finding comedic rhythms

Kristen Wiig stars, in Shira Piven’s Welcome to Me, as a woman with borderline personality disorder who wins an 86 million dollar lottery and decides to use her winnings to create her own Oprah-like talk show all about her. The Seventh Row sat down with Piven to discuss her aesthetic approach, the influence of Chauncey Gardner, and finding the […]

Advantageous, Jennifer Phang, Netflix

Alex Heeney / May 2, 2015

Advantageous director Jennifer Phang talks bringing feminist sci-fi to the screen

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.

Felix and Meira, Maxime Giroux, Canadian Film, Hasidic Jewish Film

Alex Heeney / April 24, 2015

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.

White God, Kornel Mundruczo

Alex Heeney / March 27, 2015

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.”

Yann Demange

Alex Heeney / March 5, 2015

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 […]

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