Interviews

IDFA 2011 - In Touch with the "Planet of Snail"

erin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600

For two years South Korean director Seung-Jun Yi and his assistant director took a two-hour subway ride to the home of the deaf and blind poet Young-Chan and his wife Soon-Ho. The couple communicates through a technique of gentle finger tapping called finger-braille, developed by the Japanese deaf and blind professor Satoshi Fukushima.

Afghan Life According to Afghan Filmmakers

erin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500

In the days approaching the 10th anniversary of September 11th, whose stories have you heard? Have they represented the full spectrum of experiences on that date and what has unfolded since? What was the language of their telling?

Overcoming Overemotion One Chocolate at a Time

cristina — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500

No doubt that Romantics Anonymous is a very personal film for director Jean-Pierre Améris. He knows all too well the affliction that his film’s protagonists confront: social anxiety. The unlikely romantic comedy pairs two extraordinarily shy and, yes, emotional people.

It's Alive!

erin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Director Chris Paine is back with a follow-up to his highly touted documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car?, which celebrated the birth and mourned the death of the electric car. With help from a cast of unwavering advocates, Paine resurrects the vehicle in Revenge of the Electric Car.

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cristina — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:53:18 -0500

Editor's Note: This collaborative reporting effort was led by Nikki Chase, Maddy Kadish and Beth Brosnan.

That’s Classic - Tanya Hamilton's Small Stories with Big Resonance

erin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Writer-director Tanya Hamilton can draw a clear, straight line between her debut feature film, Night Catches Us—up for best first feature at Saturday’s Independent Spirit Awards—and an earlier American classic: To Kill a Mockingbird, both Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and the 1962 film version starring Gregory Peck

Securing Distribution with Netflix

KatieO — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600

By Michelle L. Martin and Katie O'Connell

Whose Hugo?

erin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600

I detest being surprised by people, especially those to who a certain degree of my identity depends upon feeling superior. -Hugo Whittier, in “The Epicure’s Lament” by Kate Christensen.

George Hickenlooper on “Casino Jack” and the New Definition of Independent Film

erin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600

There’s no doubt that making a political film was meant to be in Casino Jack director George Hickenlooper’s future.

Lessons in Perseverance

erin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500

With latent teen rocker angst and a career as a print music journalist threatened to the point of extinction, Geoff Edgers hit mid-life determined to shake things up. Part one of his plan: get the Kinks back together after a decades-long split between the band’s two lead figures, brothers Ray and Dave Davies. Part two: in lieu of a reporter’s notebook, bring a documentary film crew.