Canadian Director Kathleen Hepburn discusses her feature debut,Never Steady, Never Still, which beautifully tackles Parkinson’s disease. …
In Her Chair
Female-identifying directors reflect on their experiences making films and leading creative teams.
Elizaveta Stishova on Suleiman Mountain and the Kyrgyzstan film industry
Suleiman Mountain director Elizaveta Stishova talks tragedy and farce, the film industry in Kyrgyzstan, and being a woman in rural Kyrgyzstan. …
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‘What I really wanted to know was: ‘Why did we stay?’’: Mila Turajlic on the trauma of ex-Yugoslavia in The Other Side of Everything
In Mila Turajlic's doc The Other Side of Everything, a Serbian apartment divided under communism is a symbol of a difficult past lingering in the present. …
TIFF17 Interview: Sophie Fiennes on Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami and performativity
In this excerpt from the ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1, Director Sophie Fiennes discusses the making of Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami …
Erika Cohn talks doc The Judge on the first female Shari’a judge in the Middle East
Documentarian Erika Cohn discusses making a film about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, encouraging dialogue, telling a character-driven story, and questioning cliches. …
‘In my country, realism is surrealism!’: Kamila Andini on her dreamlike film The Seen and Unseen
Indonesian director Kamila Andini discusses her abstract and fantastic sophomore feature The Seen and Unseen, holism, and the thrill of the unknown. …