All Q&A articles – Page 26
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FeaturesChristopher J. Dodd, MPAA
MPAA chairman and chief executive Chris Dodd talks to Liz Shackleton about Japanese audiences, China’s quotas and the impact of digital distribution on the film business.
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FeaturesBert Marcus & Mike Tyson, Champs
Director Bert Marcus and subject Mike Tyson tell Jeremy Kay about how their boxing documentary, Champs, transcends the world of sports.
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FeaturesGong Yu, iQiyi
iQiyi founder and CEO Gong Yu talks to Liz Shackleton about the company’s production plans and how it is working on its film business with parent company Baidu.
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FeaturesRobert Jones & Wayne Marc Godfrey, The Fyzz Facility
The Fyzz Facility’s Robert Jones and Wayne Marc Godfrey open up to Andreas Wiseman about their thriving production and finance company.
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FeaturesJavier Fuentes-Léon, The Vanished Elephant
The LA-based writer-director came to attention outside his native Peru in 2010 when Undertow (Contracorriente) scooped an audience award at Sundance. Now he’s back with another meditation on reality, albeit one that inhabits the noir milieu.
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FeaturesAlessandra Priante on Emirati cinema scene
Former Italian cultural attaché says cinema scene has evolved considerably in the last five years.
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FeaturesNujoom Alghanem, Sounds of the Sea
Emirati filmmaker and poet Nujoom Alghanem talks about her feature-length documentary Sounds of the Sea capturing a way of Emirati life that is dying out.
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FeaturesJacqueline Lyanga, AFI FEST
The festival director talks about a few of the anticipated highlights at this year’s feast of global film, including a certain picture that is finally coming home after it was originally set to play the festival in 2013.
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FeaturesNicolas Villarreal, Nieta
Nicolas Villarreal is on track for Oscar qualification with his second animated short Nieta, which has screened at multiple festivals including Cannes and Facets, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.
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FeaturesAmr Waked, El Ott
Mystical revenge thriller premiered in competition at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
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FeaturesHip-hop's Narcicyst on short film Rise
Iraqi-Canadian hip-hop and musician Yassin Alsalman, better known as The Narcicyst, is at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival with the short film Rise.
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FeaturesLeonardo Guerra Seragnoli, Last Summer
Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli’s debut drama Last Summer combines an impressive production team and cast with an intriguing premise.
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FeaturesJorge Gutierrez, The Book Of Life
The Emmy-winning, Mexican-born director of TV animation makes his feature directorial debut on the Fox release – guided by none other than Guillermo del Toro.
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FeaturesJon Fitzgerald, Brad Parks, Hollywood Film Festival
After Jon Fitzgerald and Brad Parks’ philanthropic body Cinecause acquired the Hollywood Film Festival (HFF) in February of this year, the event has received a total make-over and now promotes socially conscious films.
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FeaturesIvan Kavanagh, The Canal
The director talks about Park Films’ deeply atmospheric Ireland/UK movie starring Rupert Evans, former Screen Star Of Tomorrow Antonia Campbell-Hughes and youngster Calum Heath.
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FeaturesSadyk Sher-Niyaz, Kurmanjan Datka
Kurmanjan Datka is this year’s official foreign-language Oscar entry for Kyrgyzstan and recounts the story of one of the country’s most celebrated female leaders, who lived from 1811-1907.
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FeaturesLee Yong-kwan, Busan Film Festival
Lee Yong-kwan tells Jean Noh about Busan International Film Festival’s role in the international industry, the diverse, new voices of Asian cinema and the festival’s focus on safety and stability
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FeaturesPartho Sen-Gupta, Sunrise
Receiving its world premiere in BIFF’s New Currents competition, Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise tells the story of a police inspector whose daughter was kidnapped years ago when she was only six.The Marathi-language film blurs the boundaries between reality and dreams, as the police inspector believes he has found her working in ...
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FeaturesSzifron talks Wild Tales, new sci-fi film
The Argentine director talks about his hit Wild Tales and his ambitious sci-fi four-film project The Foreigner.
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FeaturesMichael R Roskam, The Drop
The upcoming Belgian director talks to Screen about making the move to US films and working with stars like Tom Hardy and the late James Gandolfini.