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Interview: Marie Amachoukeli – Àma Gloria
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Dialling into a unique relationship dynamic that isn’t portrayed in cinema, Marie Amachoukeli, who won the Camera d’Or award at the 2014 edition of the Cannes Film Festival for Party Girl (co-directed and written with Claire Burger and Samuel Theis)...
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Interview: Producer Carlos Zozaya – Tendaberry
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With a resume that began as a Script Supervisor on Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits and Zachary Shedd’s Americana, leading up to his first main producer credit for Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel, along with a plethora of other projects in between,...
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Interview: Haley Elizabeth Anderson – Tendaberry
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Tucked away in the NEXT section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival we were reminded of the singular stroke of genius that is vision of Haley Elizabeth Anderson. We attempted to keep tabs on the filmmaker since discovering her short...
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Interview: Christian Moldes / Quince Kings – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
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Wrapping up our conversations with fellows from the 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, we met with a filmmaker who promptly reminded us that there is no singular path from point A to … the day a feature gets its first clapperboard...
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Interview: Sara Crow & David Rafailedes / Satoshi – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
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On the day that this conversation took place, Sara Crow and David Rafailedes were on their way to a reception to accept one of the Sloan Development Fellowships—an artist grant supporting projects in development involving technology. However, as we spoke,...
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Interview: Kristine Gerolaga / Lamok – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
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Further proof that the Sundance Institute’s Labs have made a firm commitment to include projects that fall in just about every genre, one of the filmmakers to find a sweet spot with the group is Kristine Gerolaga and her forthcoming...
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Une Famille | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
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A Letter to Daddy: Angot Continues Confrontation of Incest In short, there is no way to rate a film like Une Famille, the debut documentary feature from celebrated writer Christine Angot. It is an uncomfortable confrontation with both the surviving...
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Shambhala | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
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Defending Your Life: Bham’s Captivating Quest Follows Its Own Path The journey is the destination in Nepalese director Min Bahadur Bam’s graceful sophomore film, Shambhala, a simple narrative about complex reckonings. The title is a name derived from Sanskrit, meaning...
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About Dry Grasses | Review
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To Sir, With Ego: Ceylan Waltzes with Narcissism in Captivating Character Study The filmography of Nuri Bilge Ceylan is characterized by complex examinations of human nature, stretched across scenarios which have only become more dense over the past two decades....
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Io Capitano | Review
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Journey to Italy: Garrone Details Arduous Migrant Odyssey It might be a rite of passage for contemporary Italian auteurs to examine the grueling adversity faced by migrants considering the ongoing crisis which began a decade ago, as timely a cinematic...
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