Category : Interviews

For filmmakers Cassidy Rast and Odin Wadleigh, ‘Body of Work’ is so much more than a documentary about an artist navigating life after a tragic spinal cord injury. It is a deeply moving story about transformation, resilience, identity, and the extraordinary beauty that can bloom when life takes an unexpected......

Some films are built to give you a couple of hours of cheap escape, while others step right up, grab you by the collar, and force you to look at the parts of yourself you usually keep buried deep. Joe Bongiovanni’s ‘The Turtle‘  belongs firmly in that second camp. Pulling......

Animation has long held a magical ability to transport us into far-off, dreamlike worlds, but for filmmaker Melissa Bloom, the medium is really a tender invitation to fall back in love with the real one. With ‘The Farmer’s Daughter’, Bloom delivers a deeply heartfelt stop-motion treasure that gently explores regenerative......

Andrew Garbus’ ‘Everything I Own’ is a hell of a lot more than just a documentary about a marriage falling apart or a family house that is being put up for sale. It’s a raw, deeply personal autopsy of memory, identity, inherited trauma, and the unspoken weight that binds families......

There’s a rare, undeniable power in a filmmaker who can take a bare-bones concept and use it to strip human nature down to the bone. Jack Serra does exactly that with his sharp, uncompromising short film, ‘Luxor’. What starts as a simple, high-stakes gamble over a lottery ticket rapidly mutates......

Natalie Schwan’s Last Stand at Butte City might be carved out of the rugged, unforgiving frontiers of 1880 Montana, but the real war being waged on screen is far more internal than its vast Western backdrop suggests. Beneath the gritty tale of a woman digging her boots in and refusing......

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......

For filmmaker Harrison Buck, ‘Dragon Mom’ is a hell of a lot more than just a documentary about disability—it’s a gritty, deeply personal look at family, raw resilience, and the massive, often-overlooked power of inclusion. What kicked off as basic research for a film tracking the intersection of disability and......

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......