Interviews
Latest video interviews.
“I’m not an activist filmmaker but this film was a response to what is going on in our world”: ‘River’ director Jennifer Peedom interview
‘River’ director Jennifer Peedom. Following her record-setting box-office hits with the documentaries Sherpa (2016) and Mountain (2017) – which took ...
Spending eight years and a lot of his own money, writer/director James Vaughan wanted his acclaimed debut ‘Friends and Strangers’ to “feel like a film about nothing” – even though it’s obviously not
Director James Vaughan: wrestling with the absurd side of modern, white Australian life. While in Melbourne for the film’s premiere ...
Stepping into ‘Facing Monsters’ at short notice, director Bentley Dean was keen to make a surf film as much about the surfer as the waves
Not your father’s surf movie: director Bentley Dean. With his latest project about to hit Stan, director Bentley Dean took ...
So, how does a first-time director nab a world-class cinematographer to shoot his little low-budget movie? Sasha Hadden and Don McAlpine explain all
It’s a match: cinematographer Don McAlpine and director Sasha Hadden. Shot on video, A Stitch in Time‘s first-time writer/director Sasha ...
“I wanna finish the end of a shooting day and I have to wipe the gore off myself. That’s how I want to make movies.” – Interview with Kiah Roache-Turner about his zombie spree ‘Wyrmwood: Apocalypse’
Kiah Roache-Turner: “I didn’t get into this game to shoot on green screen.” Director Kiah Roache-Turner was kind enough to ...
Shooting ‘Sunken Roads’ was hard enough for director Charlotte Juergens but funding stressed her to the point where she nearly gave up
“People engage with history a little differently in my generation.” Extremely well-edited and briskly paced, Sunken Roads is an unconventional ...
Covid-themed, art scene satire ‘Project Space 13’ has fun with lockdown in NYC; Interview with writer/director Michael Bilandic
One of the stars of ‘Project Space 13’: “All good comedy is self-deprecating on some level,” says writer/director Michael Bilandic ...
Winning the trust of Melbourne icon Franco Cozzo allowed director Madeleine Martiniello to include the lows along with the highs in her exhaustively researched bio-doc ‘Palazzo di Cozzo’
“Obviously you can’t leave out the hard stuff; early on I did say to him ‘we’re going to have to ...
“It’s all fun and games until a volcano goes off.” – Director Gracie Otto on her doco ‘Under the Volcano’, lingering industry sexism and her upcoming works
“People will always listen to a guy over a girl on set about something technical.” It was supposed to be ...
Framing Justin – director Michael D Ratner on the fine art of making a fan film capturing Justin Bieber’s mammoth Covid-safe concert
“It was supposed to give you a real inside look at this unique moment in time where live events weren’t ...
