“My film is about a tooth who grew inside an ovary and triggered a conversation about the industry of reproduction.” Director Ana Perez Lopez on the animated short LAS DEL DIENTE which screens at South By Southwest Film. So how did you get into this movie-making business? Talk to me a bit about how you […]
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SxSW 2019 Interview – COMMUNITY FIRST, A HOME FOR THE HOMELESS director Layton Blaylock
“COMMUNITY FIRST, A HOME FOR THE HOMELESS is a feature documentary about Community First! Village in Austin which is a one-of-kind, master planned development that is transforming the lives of homeless people. There is no other place like it. It has micro homes, tents, and RV’s and provides micro enterprises for the residents to make […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – MR. JIMMY director Peter Michael Dowd
“Everyone has a teenage obsession. Maybe it was goth or punk or the boy/girl next door? Everyone goes to a phase, and 99% of people eventually grow out o that phase. Well what if you never did. What if instead for the remainder of your life, you held onto that same fever pitch level of […]
Whistler Film Festival 2018 Interview: SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS director Collin Friesen
“SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS is about a young Dad who’s called home to bury his estranged father, only to find out his inheritance hinges on him being able to scatter his Dad’s ashes on the field of his favorite football team. So, it’s a comedy. But about death.” Director Collin Friesen on SORRY FOR YOUR […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview – EXIT MUSIC director Cameron Mullenneaux
“EXIT MUSIC is a visceral, emotional, and unexpected story about death and dying and how a family struggles to face mortality. I follow the last year in the life of a young artist as he grapples with end of life decisions and focus on his relationship with his father, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD who […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview – WOMEN OF THE VENEZUELAN CHAOS director Margarita Cadenas
“My movie is about five women from Venezuela, from different backgrounds and generations. They draw a portrait of a chaotic society and allow us to take the pulse of a population in distress. It represents a sort of barometer of the worsening critical situation in this Latin American nation.” Director Margarita Cadenas on WOMEN OF […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview: WARRIOR WOMEN directors Christina D. King & Elizabeth Castle
“WARRIOR WOMEN is the story of American Indian Movement leader, Madonna Thunder Hawk, who cultivated a rag-tag gang of activist children, including her daughter Marcy, into the “We Will Remember” Survival Group as a Native alternative to government-run boarding schools. Their deep involvement with The Movement fight for Native rights made them more comrades than […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview – THE ARTIST & THE PERVERT director René Gebhardt
“Art. Love. Radical self-determination. Nazis. BDSM. Consent. THE ARTIST & THE PERVERT is a documentary about a very special couple; Georg Friedrich Haas is a world-renowned composer and his wife Mollena is a sex educator, storyteller and activist. Together, they live in a 24/7 BDSM relationship with him being the master and her being the […]
HotDocs 2018 Interview: LAILA AT THE BRIDGE director Elizabeth Mirzaei
“LAILA AT THE BRIDGE is a film about an Afghan woman who tries to offer second chances to the outcast heroin addicts living under an infamous bridge in Kabul. Laila’s own brother was a heroin addict for over 25 years, inspiring her to undertake this Sisyphean task to provide free treatment to thousands of men […]
Hot Docs 2018 Interview — MR. FISH: CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END director Pablo Bryant
“MR. FISH: CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END is an in-depth look at the artist Mr. Fish, who is a brilliant, outrageous political cartoonist with a biting sense of satire whose work is dangerous in the best sense. He is a not ready for prime time artist, and the film is both a very personal documentary […]