Director Ciarán Foy on <i>Citadel</i> - Filmmaker Magazine
Nov 7, 2012 · After graduating from the National Film School of Ireland, Dublin-based filmmaker Ciarán Foy plied his trade directing a handful of shorts (including the larkish techno-driven Scumbot, in which a radio-controlled hooligan goes berserk and ultimately turns on his mates), finally winning a bounty of awards for his four-and-a-half-minute malicious-pixie tale The Faeries of Blackheath Woods.
Let Me Be Your Shelley Duvall: Stewart Thorndike on Bad Things
Jun 14, 2023 · The haunted halls of a defunct Catskills hotel wreak psychological violence on a group of young, queer city slickers in Bad Things, the long-awaited sophomore feature from writer-director Stewart Thorndike.Arriving nearly a decade after Lyle, Thorndike’s sapphic take on Rosemary’s Baby starring Gabby Hoffmann, Bad Things similarly tackles plot points and thematic fixations of another scary ...
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Hits & Misses 2024: Case Studies of Six Sundance 2024 Premieres. In September, Variety declared, “Indie Films Are Staging a Box Office Comeback,” touting the success of the films Longlegs, Thelma and Late Night with the Devil as signs of life for a segment of the industry “crushed by COVID, strikes and streaming,” as reporter Brent Lang wrote.
“It Was a Bit of a Rough Ride”: David Robert Mitchell on
Mar 19, 2015 · Mitchell: I’ll probably do some other films that primarily deal with younger people, but I have a bunch of stuff with many different characters at many different age groups as well. Filmmaker: When you were deciding to make the movie and structure it as an ominous thing that’s always following people who have sex, was it in your mind that you were following but also subverting ’70s ...
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Nabil Elderkin - Filmmaker Magazine
Nabil Elderkin has told his origin story so many times, but on the phone from L.A. he gracefully relays it again for Filmmaker readers: “I was born in Chicago and moved to Australia when I was three, to a beach town. I grew up there and surfed, but when all my friends became better than me and got sponsors, I became the guy who stayed on the beach shooting the surfers.
“There Were No Easy Answers to My Questions”: Iliana Sosa on …
Mar 11, 2022 · Iliana Sosa’s What We Leave Behind is an astonishingly intimate labor of love. The film emerged from Sosa’s desire to document her grandfather Julián, a proudly hardworking man who first left his native Mexico back in the early 1940s to join the US government’s Bracero program, which brought in farm workers to remedy the WWII labor shortage.
“That Kid Running from the Fire”: Director Reinaldo ... - Filmmaker
Feb 15, 2024 · On your way up. Take me up. On your way down. I won’t let you down. — Robert Nesta Marley As a form, the biopic and even more specifically the musical biopic, is an often fraught endeavor, one whose pursuit brings its makers along well …
“This Isn’t Just Any AI”: Director Pete Sillen on Bina48 and His ...
Jan 20, 2024 · Filmmaker: I think of you as someone who shoots, who has a relationship with subjects in the room, so it’s interesting that you basically made a heavily archival version of this film before you got to even shoot. Sillen: In the end, I’m a camera person. And with this, I kind of felt like I was making a film with a hand tied behind my back. In the end, this is probably 25% archival, which ...
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Isabella Rosselini on her farm. In the first of a series on filmmakers and their relationship to the animal world, artist, director, writer and actress Amalia Ulman visits with actress, director (of the short film series Green Porno, among others), model and animal behaviorist Isabella Rossellini at her regenerative farm, Mama Farm.