Director Interviews Archives

Interview with Juan Carlos Medina - The Limehouse Golem 2016

The Limehouse Golem – Q&A with Director Juan Carlos Medina

Crystal HarrellSeptember 10, 2017

Spanish director Juan Carlos Medina’s latest feature film The Limehouse Golem is a suspenseful mystery that focuses on a detective bent on solving the case of ... READ MORE

Interview with Nicholas Bushman on film Union Furnace

Union Furnace – Q&A with Director Nicholas Bushman

Crystal HarrellAugust 14, 2017

Nicholas Bushman's horror thriller Union Furnace centers on a small town con man who gets mixed up in a deadly game for the chance to win a large sum of money.... READ MORE

Fun Mom Dinner – Q&A with Director Alethea Jones

Carmen WongAugust 7, 2017

Fun Mom Dinner is a film written by Julie Rudd and directed by Alethea Jones. It stars Kate Aselton, Toni Collette, Molly Shannon and Bridget Everett as the ce... READ MORE

Road to the Well – Interview with Director Jon Cvack

Amiro MoJune 30, 2017

In Road to the Well, two recently reunited friends find their lives further upended after one witnesses a brutal and mysterious murder. Jon Cvack, writing and... READ MORE

Aaron B. Koontz Interview Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura – Q&A with Director Aaron B. Koontz

Trysten CainJune 23, 2017

The feature debut of writer/director Aaron B. Koontz is also the first feature from his own Austin-based Paper Street Pictures. Based on his 2015 short film Ape... READ MORE

Matt Schrader Score a Film Music Interview

Score: A Film Music Documentary – Q&A with Director Matt Schrader

Taylor RyanJune 19, 2017

Score: A Film Music Documentary traces the lineage of film scores and their creative processes from past to present. Director Matt Schrader interviews some... READ MORE

Aaron's Blood Interview with Director Tommy Stovall

Aaron’s Blood – Q&A with Director Tommy Stovall

Trysten CainJune 7, 2017

With his 3rd feature film, Writer/Director Tommy Stovall puts a twist on the typical vampire story by creating a kind of family drama/thriller that follows a fa... READ MORE

The Resilient Heart Interview with Susan Froemke

The Resilient Heart – Q&A with Director Susan Froemke

Dean WhiteJune 4, 2017

Susan Froemke is a film director and producer. She was an associate producer for the 1975 documentary film Grey Gardens. Froemke co-directed the 2001 documentar... READ MORE

Spirit Game Documentary Directors Peter Baxter and Peter Spirer Interview

Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation – Q&A with Directors Peter Spirer and Peter Baxter

Chance ParkerMay 28, 2017

In Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation, Peter Spirer and Peter Baxter direct a documentary that follows the Iroquois National Lacrosse Team through several different... READ MORE

Michael McQuown The Dark Tapes Interview

The Dark Tapes – Q&A with Co-Director Michael McQuown

Chance ParkerMay 27, 2017

The Dark Tapes is a found footage, science-fiction, horror film that takes on the structure of an anthology series. The film is broken into four different segme... READ MORE

Salima Koroma Director Bad Rap Interview

Bad Rap – Q&A with Director Salima Koroma

Taylor RyanMay 23, 2017

Director Salima Koroma’s documentary Bad Rap follows four Asian-American rappers as they try to make a name for themselves in the hip-hop world. The film focuse... READ MORE

Rupture – Q&A with Director Steven Shainberg

Taylor RyanMay 4, 2017

It’s been ten years since Director Steven Shainberg has been in the hot seat. For his latest film, Rupture, he’s teamed up with Writer Brian Nelson (Hard Candy)... READ MORE

Roberto-Berliner Nise: The Heart of Madness 2015 Interview

Nise: The Heart of Madness – Q&A with Director Roberto Berliner

Chance ParkerApril 29, 2017

The 2015 Brazilian film Nise: The Heart of Madness tells a brave and revolutionary story about Dr. Nise da Silveira, who began working at a psychiatric hospital... READ MORE

Albert Kodagolian Somewhere Beautiful Interview

Somewhere Beautiful – Q&A with Director Albert Kodagolian

Chance ParkerApril 24, 2017

Somewhere Beautiful is an ambitious tale of two intertwining stories. The first takes place in the wilds of Argentina and involves a love triangle story during ... READ MORE

Kirill Serebrennikov The Student Interview

The Student – Q&A with Director Kirill Serebrennikov

Jake WatersApril 22, 2017

Religious fanaticism takes hold of a student in a Russian school in the film The Student, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. The film is a harrowing look and wha... READ MORE

Interview with Director Peter Chelsom for The Space Between Us

The Space Between Us – Q&A with Director Peter Chelsom

Emma DaviesApril 8, 2017

Peter Chelsom started his career as an actor in the UK, becoming a writer and director at 30, with his short film Treacle (1987) winning a BAFTA nomination. Che... READ MORE

From the Kill Pen – Q&A with Director Sharon Boeckle

Chance ParkerApril 7, 2017

Sharon Boeckle’s second documentary From the Kill Pen is a deep dive into the gritty world of horse slaughtering and the potential selling of their meat. There ... READ MORE

Antibirth 2016 Interview with Director Danny Perez

Antibirth – Q&A with Director Danny Perez

Amiro MoMarch 31, 2017

Writer-director Danny Perez’s first feature, Antibirth, stars real-life friends Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny as a hard-partying pair whose lives are upended... READ MORE

After the Storm – Q&A with Director Hirokazu Koreeda

Carmen WongMarch 26, 2017

Movies. There are many ways to think about them. There’s high-brow and low-brow. There’s American cinema, African cinema, Asian cinema and European cinema. Ther... READ MORE

Dig Two Graves – Q&A with Director Hunter Adams

Trysten CainMarch 25, 2017

Hunter Adams' second feature film is a decades-spanning Gothic thriller revenge tale involving gypsies, rednecks, and a young girl forced to make a moral decisi... READ MORE

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