Interview with Denis Côté ('Vic + Flow Saw a Bear')
'Vic + Flow Saw a Bear' … Or did they? If the bear here is something that is both a very real and life-threatening animal in the forest as well as a mythical (sometimes magical) creature from fairytales, then the film itself is such a paradox. The story begins under the guise of gritty realism but methodically evolves into a Chinese box of mystery and suspense. This is a princess kisses frog who turns prince film. Starting off gradual and slimy, it grows into such illuso...
It’s Halloween time again, which means shadows, death and magic are in high demand. Here to speak and sate dark fantastical desires is Oscar nominated Tom Van Avermaet, director of the 2013 Oscar nominated short: DEATH OF A SHADOW.
Nathan Rijckx is a dead soldier walking on a thin line somewhere between this world and the hereafter. He walks the sinister and shadowy streets of old world Europe collecting the souls of the decea...
Filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel is writer/director/producer/DOP of the multi award-winning documentary A WORLD NOT OURS (2012), a life tribute and soliloquy dedicated to Mahdi’s hometown Ein el-Helweh, Lebanon. While Mahdi has spent much of his adult life in Denmark, he returned home many times over the last thirteen years documenting family and friends to make this unique memoir.
Mahdi begins the film by stating: ‘To me, going to Ein el-Helweh is better than going to Disneyland&r...
Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated actress Virginia Madsen is also a documentary film producer and film festival ambassador for the Aruba International Film Festival. Madsen is a force wherever she goes, a solar-spirited infectious burst of energy in every room she enters and every film and TV screen she graces. She has led a prolific and fruitful acting career for over thirty years and still going on strong. A few of her past roles include: ‘Princess Irulan’ in David Lynch&r...
Miss Monday, Canadian filmmaker presented in Official Competition short "Panic".
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THE ACT OF KILLING (2013) is a 7-10 year in the making documentary about the mass-killings of communists in Indonesia in the mid 1960’s. The film has international audiences in awe of its avant-garde filmmaking techniques never before explored. Joshua Oppenheimer’s organic and daring originality is so visceral that the film screens like a painting, which journeys directly into the oftentimes dark and arresting void of human nature.
Recently the film’s Executive Produ...
At a time when independent cinema is struggling to survive more than ever, one independent film producer is at the top of his game, currently taking over Hollywood and the world. Prolific powerhouse producer Randall Emmett has produced over 77 films during his career and he is just getting started. There are few places in the world that have escaped the saturation of P&A for his latest film 2 GUNS (2013) by acclaimed Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (CONTRABAND, 2012...
There are three films in development right now about the impressive historical figure Gertrude Bell (aka the 'female Lawrence of Arabia') by these three directors- Ridley Scott, Werner Herzog and Alexa-Sascha Lewin. While Alexa is the less known director, she is the only one that is a woman telling the story of the nonconformist peacemaker and 'kingmaker' Gertrude Bell from the perspective of the female gaze. Having spent over five years of her life devoted to the research...
The Deflowering of Eva Van End by Dutch filmmaker Michiel ten Horn is a quirky comedy reminiscent of the American hit Little Miss Sunshine (2006). The Deflowering of Eva Van End is a smart comedy about an eccentric dysfunctional Dutch family that hosts a well-traveled German exchange student who uses his weird and worldly ways to open the minds of his hosts.
The film recently screened at the 2013 Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF). I interviewed actor Tomer...
The Deflowering of Eva Van End by Dutch filmmaker Michiel ten Horn is a quirky comedy reminiscent of the American hit Little Miss Sunshine (2006). The Deflowering of Eva Van End is a smart comedy about an eccentric dysfunctional Dutch family that hosts a well-traveled German exchange student who uses his weird and worldly ways to open the minds of his hosts.
The film recently screened at the 2013 Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF). I interviewed actor Tomer...
NTERVIEWS WITH PAUL VERHOEVEN @ 4TH AIFF; JULY 3, 2013
photos by Vanessa McMahon
Writer/Director/Producer Richard Gray.
'MINE GAMES' (2012) to screen at the 4th Aruba International Film Festival (2-6 July, 2013).
Director of 'Mine Games' Richard Gray to attend AIFF with his wife (writer/producer Michele Gray) and cast of the film Joseph Cross ('Lincoln') and Briana Evigan ('Step Up').
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Peruvian director Adrián Saba’s breakout first feature film ‘The Cleaner’ (‘El Limpiador’, 2012) has won multiple awards (including the prestigious the New Voices/New Visions award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival) and traveled to numerous film festivals around the globe since its world premier in the New Directors category of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
This haunting and lyrical Peruvian gem is reminiscent of the post apo...
Peruvian director Adrián Saba’s breakout first feature film ‘The Cleaner’ (‘El Limpiador’, 2012) has won multiple awards (including the prestigious the New Voices/New Visions award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival) and traveled to numerous film festivals around the globe since its world premier in the New Directors category of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
This haunting and lyrical Peruvian gem is reminiscent of the post apo...
Peruvian director Adrián Saba’s breakout first feature film ‘The Cleaner’ (‘El Limpiador’, 2012) has won multiple awards (including the prestigious the New Voices/New Visions award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival) and traveled to numerous film festivals around the globe since its world premier in the New Directors category of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
This haunting and lyrical Peruvian gem is reminiscent of the post apo...
When I met Sebastián Lelio it was under the influence of ‘Carpathia’ vodka and in the bowels of a dark Transylvanian nightclub. Sebastian, myself, and a group of others were dancing our booties off to this summer’s club music hits. None of us knew each other’s name, but we were all smiling cheek-to-cheek, dancing and bonding. We were happy and free celebrating life beyond worldview, career or age. The next day I went to see Sebastián’s f...
When I met Sebastián Lelio it was under the influence of ‘Carpathia’ vodka and in the bowels of a dark Transylvanian nightclub. Sebastian, myself, and a group of others were dancing our booties off to this summer’s club music hits. None of us knew each other’s name, but we were all smiling cheek-to-cheek, dancing and bonding. We were happy and free celebrating life beyond worldview, career or age. The next day I went to see Sebastián’s f...
At the Cannes film market during the 66th Cannes Film Festival, I thought it would be interesting to interview an international buyer from one of the hottest (and rapidly transforming) international territories; Asia.
While running to a meeting to see the famous Bob Jones (president of IPA Asia Pacific), I was stopped by two sales agents and asked to attend a lunch with them. I said I couldn’t as I was already running late for an important meeting with ‘Bob’. Immediate...
'Blood Ties' (2013)
'The Immigrant' (2013)
At the Cannes film market during the 66th Cannes Film Festival, I thought it would be interesting to interview an international buyer from one of the hottest (and rapidly transforming) international territories; Asia.
While running to a meeting to see the famous Bob Jones (president of IPA Asia Pacific), I was stopped by two sales agents and asked to attend a lunch with them. I said I couldn’t as I was alre...
At the 12th Transylvania International Film Festival (31 May- 9 June, 2013), the winner of the 'Romanian Days Breakthrough Award' (1.000 Euro offered by URSUS) – 'A Month in Thailand' (by Paul Negoescu).
‘A Month In Thailand’ (2012) by writer/director Paul Negoescu screened in competition recently at the 12th Transylvania International Film Festival. The film depicts a grey Bucharest, Romania in the course of one night in the life of 'Radu' (play...
On June 7, 2013 Romanian film 'Adalbert's Dream' (2011) held its official DVD launch of the film at the TIFF Lounge during the 12th annual Transylvania International Film Festival.
When I met Romanian director Gabriel Achim, I asked him about his film and he said this: 'Well, if you like intellectual porn then you will like my film...' Well, what a pitch because I couldn’t wait to see it, and indeed ADALBERT'S DREAM (Visul Lui Adalbert, 2011) IS &ls...
On June 7, 2013 Romanian film 'Adalbert's Dream' (2011) held its official DVD launch of the film at the TIFF Lounge during the 12th annual Transylvania International Film Festival.
When I met Romanian director Gabriel Achim, I asked him about his film and he said this: 'Well, if you like intellectual porn then you will like my film...' Well, what a pitch because I couldn’t wait to see it, and indeed ADALBERT'S DREAM (Visul Lui Adalbert, 2011) IS ‘Inte...
‘Paradise: Love’ (‘Paradies: Liebe’, 2012).
No one comments about sexual tourism when it deals with men traveling to foreign countries for bargain sex (Amsterdam, Brazil, Thailand, Japan, etc., etc.) but when Ulrich Seidl takes on the anything but subtle subject of women traveling the globe for sex tourism, the film is controversial and hotly debated. Sometimes labeled as racist and vulgar, ‘Paradise: Love’ is a story about consensual sex for money between ...
During the illustrious and world-renown Cannes Film Festival, which just celebrated the close to its 66th year, the St Tropez International Film Festival took place next door in Nice, France from May 13th-17th. One of the films to feature at this year’s St. Tropez Film Festival was ‘Dusty’s Trail: Summit of Borneo’ (2013), a labor of love documentary about Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease that affects boys and young men around the world. The film by newcom...
