Eleanor Mortimer & How Deep is Your Love
Director Eleanor Mortimer talks about her experience living with the taxonomists for two months, her filmmaking inspirations and the limitations of being an observer.
Category Archives: Interviews
Alex Tweddle & AMR: Dying to Change the World
In conversation with Duru Usanmaz, director Alex Tweddle’s passion for purposeful filmmaking feels unmistakable. AMR: DYING TO CHANGE THE WORLD is more than a documentary; it’s a call to awareness, urging audiences to recognise the invisible battles shaping our collective future.
Sophia Carr-Gomm on Return
Short film RETURN foregrounds the growing directorial voice of Sophia Carr-Gomm; a cinematic short with a haunting central performance, rendered all the more poignant by the passing of lead actor Peter Faulkner shortly after the film’s completion.
Arze: Mira Shaib interview
Mira Shaib’s feature film debut, ARZE, chronicles the story of Lebanese mother Arzé (Diamand Abou Abboud) as she searches for a stolen motorcycle on the streets of sectarian Beirut.
Ng Choon Ping & Sam Freeman on Femme
Ng Choon Ping and Sam Freeman spoke about their Safdie brother references in FEMME, the implications behind the giant lion tattoos embossed on George MacKay, and how vital it was to have an intimacy coordinator on set.
Ken Loach & Paul Laverty: The Old Oak
“Telling stories of the working class means you can incorporate them as full characters with complexities and humour and struggles and sadness and joy and all the rest of it that make them human and not stereotypes or cliches. One thing you never see is their strength.” At the North-East premiere of THE OLD OAK, writer Paul Laverty sat down to chat about the film, while director Loach spoke over a video call.
Afire: Thomas Schubert Interview
Schubert spoke about turning 30 while touring the biggest film of his career so far in AFIRE, auteur director Petzold casting him specifically, and the curious introspection that Leon is bringing to a subset of audiences.
The Old Oak: Ebla Mari & Dave Turner
“I really believe in art. I study theatre, and I really believe in political art, social theatre, and art of the oppressed. I believe cinema about underprivileged people and communities, films like ours, can make a difference.”
Charlotte Regan & Scrapper
Connor Lightobody talks to Charlotte Regan about Scrapper at EIFF 2023.
Ira Sachs Interview
“What I wanted to do [with PASSAGES] was make a film of pleasure. I was trying to turn people on. Which doesn’t mean gratuitous or exploitative; I was trying to make a film where the beauty of bodies in different lights and colours was embraced.”