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Matt Johnson & Matthew Miller Interview (The Dirties)

The Dirties is a faux documentary about high school life leading up to a school shooting. The Canadian film premiered at Slamdance 2013 and took home the Best Narrative Feature prize, initiating a successful festival run and distribution from Phase 4. The film is an extension of the multi-platform referential style of Nirvana, the Band: The… Continue reading Matt Johnson & Matthew Miller Interview (The Dirties)

Margarethe von Trotta Interview (Hannah Arendt)

Margarethe von Trotta is a German filmmaker whose career began during the famed New German Cinema period. Her films tend to take significant historical and political moments as backdrops to more emotional investigations, particularly between complex, well-drawn women characters. These films include The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Marianne and Juliane, Sheer Madness, Rosa Luxemberg,… Continue reading Margarethe von Trotta Interview (Hannah Arendt)

Barbara Hammer Interview (Maya Deren’s Sink)

Barbara Hammer is a legend of experimental cinema, creating bold and affecting works on a wealth of subjects, including feminism, lesbian cinema, queer and hidden history, the body, art in the context of war, mortality and much more. Beginning in the 1970s, Barbara’s work has consistently grown in scope and stature, including the avant-garde classics:… Continue reading Barbara Hammer Interview (Maya Deren’s Sink)

Thomas Vinterberg Interview (The Hunt)

Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish filmmaker who rose to international attention from co-founding the Dogme 95 movement and contributing the first film to follow its rules, The Celebration (1998). His other films include The Biggest Heroes (1996), It’s All About Love (2003), the Lars von Trier penned Dear Wendy (2005), A Man Comes Home (2007)… Continue reading Thomas Vinterberg Interview (The Hunt)

William Vega Interview (La Sirga)

William Vega is a Colombian director and screenwriter, who directed four short films before completing his debut feature in 2012, La Sirga. Prior to directing his debut feature, Vega was assistant director to Oscar Ruiz Navia on El vuelco del cangrejo (Crab Trap, 2009). La Sirga follows a young girl who is suddenly without her… Continue reading William Vega Interview (La Sirga)

Canadian Screen Awards (2013)

We teamed up with our friends at the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to offer alternative, live-streaming coverage in the press room of the inaugural CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS. Last year we offered similar coverage of the Genies, Canada’s equivalent to the Oscars, which has been combined with the television and digital media awards to… Continue reading Canadian Screen Awards (2013)

Matías Piñeiro Interview (Viola)

Matías Piñeiro is an Argentinian filmmaker who has directed three feature films and one 40-minute short, which was commissioned for the Jeonju Digital Project. His first two films, The Stolen Man (2007) and They All Lie (2009), introduce the games played with narrative, the engagement with the relationship between film and literature, and the interest… Continue reading Matías Piñeiro Interview (Viola)

João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata Interview (The Last Time I Saw Macao)

João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata are Portuguese filmmakers who have worked together in various capacities since their first short film,Parabéns! (1997). Rodrigues has directed three feature films – O Fantasma (2000), Two Drifters (2005) and To Die Like a Man (2009) – where genres are mixed to tell stories that each… Continue reading João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata Interview (The Last Time I Saw Macao)

Pinewood Toronto Studios (Blake Steels)

Pinewood Toronto Studios a modern, purpose-built complex for film and television production and is becoming a destination facility for International producers coming to Toronto. Situated on an 11 acre site in Toronto’s Port Lands, the facility is comprised of 8 stages (including North America’s largest purpose-built soundstage) offering 250,000 square feet of production space. Recent… Continue reading Pinewood Toronto Studios (Blake Steels)

Whit Stillman Interview (Damsels in Distress)

Whit Stillman is an American filmmaker whose four films are comedic investigations of class triumphs and tragedies, explored through the lens of group social life. These include the varying comforts and malaise of the ‘urban haute bourgeoisie’ in Metropolitan (1990); how certain class cultures clash with political realities abroad in Barcelona (1994); and the collapse… Continue reading Whit Stillman Interview (Damsels in Distress)

Athina Rachel Tsangari Interview (The Capsule)

Athina Rachel Tsangari is a Greek filmmaker, visual artist and producer. She has produced fellow Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ films, including Alps and Dogtooth, among others through her production company HAOS films. As a filmmaker she considers herself to be nomadic – a quality that her first feature, The Slow Business of Going, explores in both its story… Continue reading Athina Rachel Tsangari Interview (The Capsule)

Costa-Gavras Interview (Le Capital)

Costa-Gavras is a Greek-French filmmaker who is commonly associated with thrillers concerned with political stories, though his oeuvre is much more varied in style and theme. Still perhaps best known for Z (1969) and Missing (1982), two political thrillers of the highest order, Gavras’ filmography also includes a recurring interest in the holocaust (Music Box (1989)… Continue reading Costa-Gavras Interview (Le Capital)