All Q&A articles – Page 24

  • Thierry Fremaux
    News

    Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux talks 2015 line-up

    2015-04-17T00:01:00Z

    Talking after the announcement of the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection on Thursday, festival chief Thierry Fremaux reveals Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise might still make it into competition and his habitual fears for the films he selects.

  • Genna Terranova
    Features

    Talking Tribeca

    2015-04-16T05:27:00Z

    As the 14th annual New York jamboree kicks off, Jeremy Kay talks to festival director Genna Terranova (main picture), Tribeca Enterprises evp Paula Weinstein (centre) and director of short film programming and initiatives Sharon Badal about their work.

  • Ashby
    Features

    Tony McNamara, 'Ashby'

    2015-04-15T22:31:00Z

    Australian director Tony McNamara speaks to Nadia Tseng about his upcoming film, Ashby, set to premiere at Tribeca on April 19.

  • Josef Wladyka
    Features

    Josef Wladyka, ‘Manos Sucias’

    2015-04-06T17:57:00Z

    Spike Lee liked what he saw in NYU film programme graduate Josef Wladyka’s story of estranged brothers in Colombia who mule a cocaine-filled torpedo up the Pacific Coast. Wladyka talks to Jeremy Kay.

  • Wolf At The Door
    Features

    Fernando Coimbra, ‘Wolf At The Door’

    2015-03-29T23:35:00Z

    US audiences finally get the chance to see Coimbra’s disturbing Rio-set drama inspired by the shocking ‘Beast Of Penha’ abduction and murder case in Brazil more than half a century ago.

  • Krzysztof Zanussi
    Features

    Krzysztof Zanussi on Scorsese, censorship and his new film

    2015-03-23T06:50:00Z

    Veteran Polish director talks to Geoffrey Macnab ahead of a major UK tour of restored Polish film classics, programmed by Martin Scorsese.

  • Mania Days
    Features

    Paul Dalio, 'Mania Days'

    2015-03-17T20:31:00Z

    NYU Tisch School Of the Arts and NYU graduate film-making alumnus Paul Dalio talks to Elbert Wyche about Mania Days, his debut feature that premieres in SXSW.

  • Justin Lerner
    Features

    Justin Lerner, 'The Automatic Hate'

    2015-03-16T22:50:00Z

    UCLA film school grad Justin Lerner talks to Elbert Wyche about his SXSW debut and second directorial effort The Automatic Hate, which receives its world premiere on March 15.

  • Ron Nyswaner
    Features

    Ron Nyswaner, 'She’s The Best Thing In It'

    2015-03-16T19:26:00Z

    The Academy Award-nominated writer of Philadelphia talks about his latest rare foray into directing on the SXSW documentary about Tony Award winner Mary Louise Wilson.

  • Charles Hood
    Features

    Charles Hood, 'Night Owls'

    2015-03-15T20:41:00Z

    After an eight-year hiatus, Nebraska native Charles Hood debuts his second feature Night Owls in SXSW’s Narrative Spotlight section. He tells Tiffany Pritchard about his return to action.

  • Colin Hanks
    Features

    Colin Hanks, 'All Things Must Pass'

    2015-03-15T05:06:00Z

    Ahead of his anticipated directorial debut at SXSW, Colin Hanks speaks to Nadia Tseng about his seven-year journey to make a documentary about the rise and fall of Tower Records.

  • Janet Pierson
    Features

    Janet Pierson on the identity of SXSW

    2015-03-13T09:16:00Z

    SXSW’s head of film talks to Jeremy Kay about the upcoming edition, which starts today [March 13].

  • The Treatment
    Features

    Glasgow FrightFest: into The Woods

    2015-03-02T08:44:00Z

    Screen reports from the tenth Glasgow FrightFest, featuring interviews with The Woods Movie’s Russ Gomm and The Treatment’s Hans Herbots.

  • Lluís Quílez
    Features

    Lluís Quílez, Out Of The Dark

    2015-02-27T02:54:00Z

    Award-winning short-film director Lluis Quilez tells Nadia Tseng about his next big step with his feature directorial debut on Participant Media’s Out Of The Dark starring Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman.

  • Max Steel
    Features

    Stewart Hendler, Max Steel

    2015-02-06T10:44:00Z

    The director of Dolphin Films’ sci-fi action-adventure sci-fi based on the Mattel property stars Ben Witchell and Ana Villafañe and is the subject of a buyer screening at the EFM on February 6.

  • Alex Gibney
    Features

    Alex Gibney, Going Clear

    2015-02-04T23:32:00Z

    Alex Gibney’s recent Sundance documentary Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief was the talk of Park City and has arrived in Berlin.

  • Sundance Project Syria VR
    Features

    Sundance explores virtual reality

    2015-02-01T22:46:00Z

    Over the course of the festival Sundance’s New Frontier Space explored 15 different gaming and virtual reality (VR) experiences that proved to be consistent crowd-pleasers.

  • Justin Kelly
    Features

    Justin Kelly, I Am Michael

    2015-02-01T11:56:00Z

    Justin Kelly talks to Tiffany Pritchard about his feature directorial debut, the true story of Michael Glatze’s transition from gay to straight and the challenges he faced in tackling the controversial move. James Franco and Zachary Quinto star and Gus van Sant serves as executive producer.

  • Robert Eggers
    Features

    Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch

    2015-01-28T02:51:00Z

    Hot off the Sundance world premiere of his lauded 17th century chiller and the subsequent US deal with A24 Films, director Robert Eggers is thankful that festival audiences “get” his feature directorial debut.

  • Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
    Features

    Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, Mississippi Grind

    2015-01-26T21:21:00Z

    The veteran Sundance co-writer-directors tell Tiffany Pritchard about their return to Park City with the Premieres selection about gambling pals on a trip to a high-stakes poker game in New Orleans.