Category : Interviews

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......

For most people grinding through the daily hustle of busy city streets, buskers are just background noise heard for a split second, but rarely truly noticed. But for filmmaker Antonio G. Wagner, street musicians represent something a hell of a lot deeper: they’re artists chasing raw connection, personal fulfilment, and......

There is something incredibly moving about the way Joaquim Adrià Pujol speaks about filmmaking. He doesn’t approach it with the polished certainty of someone chasing cinematic grandeur, but with the raw openness of a woman still trying to make sense of the emotional wreckage left behind by family, addiction, and......

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......

Denzel Vazquez doesn’t need a massive spectacle or cheap emotional manipulation to hit you where it hurts; he does it through pure, unfiltered silence and the heavy, invisible baggage people carry when words finally fail them. In Leap and Soar, the Mexican filmmaker and visual artist delivers a gritty, deeply......

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......