For filmmaker Maite Uzal, real creativity kicks off the second you stop waiting for a green light or permission from the industry. Originally driven by the need to carve out her own opportunities as an actress, she grabbed the reins behind the camera, weaponising writing and directing as the ultimate......

For filmmaker Olivia Jean Hamilton, real storytelling kicks off the second you stop using it for simple entertainment and start weaponising it to decode the world around you. With her short film The Closet, she pulls directly from a deeply personal experience to deliver a fresh, sharp, and unapologetically humorous......

Coming-of-age stories so often invite us to look back on our childhood through a soft, nostalgic lens, but brothers Alex and Diego Barragán’s ‘Jardines del Bosque’ asks us to remember something a little more complicated. Set against the familiar, sun-drenched streets of Guadalajara, the film follows a group of young......

Sitting down with Marchelle Bradanini and Emily Alpren, you are immediately swept up in the same delicious, chaotic wit and raw emotional honesty that make their short film ‘Floored‘ such a wild ride. What starts as a cosy chat about motherhood and collaboration quickly blooms into something so much deeper......

Ali Marsh’s path to the director’s chair didn’t happen overnight, but Pittsburgh is a solid reminder that some stories drop exactly when they’re supposed to. In our conversation, Marsh gets honest about the real-world experiences that fueled the script, the raw grind of stepping behind the camera for the first......

Speaking with Mel Quintans, it quickly becomes clear that her relationship with storytelling extends far beyond the logistics of a call sheet. There is a beautifully emotional, deeply human instinct guiding the way she speaks about cinema, collaboration, and the sacred responsibility of helping vulnerable stories find their footing in......