“FOR SAMA is one of the most intimate, epic documentaries about the female experience of war you’ll ever see. Framed as a message from a young mother, Waad al-Kateab, to her daughter Sama, the film tells the story of Waad’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria. She falls in love, gets […]
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South By Southwest 2019 Interview – IT’S NOT CUSTARD director Kate McCoid
“Teenage Cruelty, Revenge, and a giant wall of Acne! IT’S NOT CUSTARD is the darkly comic story of Louise, a teenager suffering the dual blows of unrelenting acne and bullying. She awakes one morning to find her acne gone, but this magical gift has a bizarre consequence that grants Louise the most delicious of revenges.” […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – STUFFED director Erin Derham
“STUFFED is not what you think it is. It is a documentary about taxidermy, but seen through the lens of true artists and conservationists. It is bright, lighthearted, beautiful and full of life. We follow four of the most elite taxidermists around the world. They have to know chemistry and anatomy with the same mastery […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – I SEE YOU director Adam Randall
“I SEE YOU is a dark, twisting thriller. It starts with a young boy’s disappearance, the second in so many days, and reveals itself to be a case eerily familiar to one that took place fifteen years earlier. While the lead detective tries to discover what happened to these boys, strange, and increasingly sinister happenings […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – AMAZONIA GROOVE director Bruno Murtinho
“AMAZONIA GROOVE is a sensitive documentary about the fascinating musicality of nine remarkable musicians, coming from different backgrounds, with different musical styles, but with one thing in common: all of them living on the banks of the Amazon River, in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil. And when I write “a sensitive documentary” I […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – LEAVE THE BUS THROUGH THE BROKEN WINDOW director Andrew Hevia
“LEAVE THE BUS THROUGH THE BROKEN WINDOW is about the time I moved to Hong Kong to make a film about art, but instead made one about my broken heart and that time I got lost inside a shopping mall. It’s deeply personal but also playful movie about a complicated city and the year I […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – GO BACK TO CHINA director Emily Ting
“GO BACK TO CHINA is a coming of age story about a spoiled rich girl who, after blowing through half of her trust fund, is forced by her father to go back to China and work for the family business. What started out as a way to regain financial support soon turns into a journey […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – PIG HAG directors Colby Holt & Sam Probst
“Jodie, a single 36-year-old travel nurse, compares herself to the world around her. While attending a Guns N’ Roses concert, she thinks she may have met her potential match — until he ghosts on her the next day.” Directors Colby Holt & Sam Probst on PIG HAG which screens at the 2019 edition of South […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – WELL GROOMED director Rebecca Stern
“WELL GROOMED is about the world of competitive creative dog grooming and the women who groom their poodles into fantastic technicolor sculptures. It is an escape from the everyday stress into the passion of a niche community of women spending quality time with their animals.” Congratulations on WELL GROOMED playing at SxSW this year! Is […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES diretor Jessica Oreck
“I like to describe ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES as part documentary, part legend and part oral history. It’s the true story of one of the world’s most important seed banks and the heroism of the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. But the whole film takes […]