Interview: “What They Had” Producer Keith Kjarval on Cultivating Variety at Unified Pictures
The producer talks about how a diverse array of tastes and an ever-growing stable of ongoing collaborators have cleared a path for filmmaker...
Interviews
Interview: Sandi Tan on Making Good on a Dream with “Shirkers”
The director talks about her thrilling return to filmmaking through the process of learning what exactly prevented what was to be her first ...
Interview: Patrick Wang on Getting a Rise Out of “A Bread Factory”
The "In the Family" director talks about embarking on a two-part, four-hour production with a cast of 100-plus actors, complete with musical...
Interview: Nathaniel Kahn on the Art of Making “The Price of Everything”
The "My Architect" director talks about this wildly entertaining new documentary that captures the inspiration, persperation and sometimes u...
Interview: Antonio Méndez Esparza on Hitting the Pavement for “Life and Nothing More”
The director talks about drawing on his community in Florida and letting reality shape this story of a single mother trying to make ends mee...
Interview: Alexandria Bombach on the Weight of Making “On Her Shoulders”
The filmmaker reflects on being emboldened by the courage of human rights activist Nadia Murad to make a film that did right by her at all c...
Interview: Yen Tan on Finding the Right Words for the Disease That Had No Name in “1985”
The "Pit Stop" director talks about telling the story of a young man facing the end of his life when he should only be at the beginning.
Animation is Film ’18 Interview: Salvadoro Simo on an Artist Finding His Way in “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles”
The animator talks about capturing a moment of inspiration for the surrealist filmmaker during the making of "The Land Without Bread" in the...
Interview: Jim Cummings on the Drive to Make “Thunder Road”
The writer/director/star of the SXSW Grand Jury Prize-winning comedy talks about his single-minded pursuit to make a truly unforgettable fea...
Interview: Elizabeth Chomko on Bringing the Past into the Present in “What They Had”
The writer/director talks about her deeply moving family drama in which a parent's destabilizing disease gives way to competing and complex ...
