Tag: Documentary Film Interview
Interview: Shaunak Sen – All That Breathes
Painterly and humour-filled, All That Breathes is poetic lyricism rendered on both the micro and the macro level. Weaving together philosophical, political, economic challenges...
Video Interview: Debbie Lum – Try Harder!
Debbie Lum’s Try Harder! is a supremely moving documentary about high schoolers in the throes of their college application process. Lum’s focus is on...
Video Interview: Julie Schroell – River Tales | Intl. Feature Film Entry for the 93rd Academy Awards
Luxembourg’s official submission for the ‘Best International Feature’ category at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021 is Julie Schroell’s directorial debut River Tales, a...
Interview: Ksawery Szczepanik – Going for Gold | 2020 Warsaw International Film Festival
Going for Gold is the fourth film by docu helmer Ksawery Szczepanik. His latest film presents the story of the most successful Polish pole...
Interview: Andrew Hevia – Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw
A producer on Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and a Miami native with a hand in building up the city’s festival/collective Borscht Corporation, Andrew Hevia flew...
Interview: Filmmaker Andrew Renzi & Subject Hector Barajas – Ready for War
What does it mean to be stuck behind enemy lines? For his third docu feature, Andrew Renzi (Fishtail, The Benefactor, They Fight) adds a...
Interview: Olga Bieniek – Kult Film | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival
Olga Bieniek's rock documentary Kult Film is an ode to Poland's incredibly longstanding band Kult whose energetic members are also nailing the fatherhood game....
Interview: Roberto Minervini – What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?
Roberto Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? shines a resonant spotlight on life as an African American in New Orleans....
Interview: Fernando Serrano – Bisbee ’17
When we look back at the year that was in docu film offerings for 2018, Robert Greene's timeless inquiry into how the present is...
Interview: Tina Charles – Charlie’s Records
Charlie’s Records is a classic immigration story turned personal. Director Tina Charles is a WNBA all star, Olympic gold medalist and first-time filmmaker. Her...
Interview: Caleb Slain – Marshall from Detroit (VR Documentary)
Despite its crumbling infrastructure and economic woes, there is vast nook and cranny beauty and nocturnal serenity to be found in Detroit via Caleb...
Interview: Wolfgang Held – O.G. / It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It
Emmy Award-winning Director of Photography Wolfgang Held had three films at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: O.G., It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It, and...
Interview: Liza Mandelup’s Jawline | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Who influences the influencers? Who’s really on the other side of the screen? Is there any hope for the wistful ideals of live-streaming culture?...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Bing Liu (Minding the Gap)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This past January at Sundance, we were introduced...
Interview: Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte – The State Against Mandela And The Others | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
French-based docu filmmaker Gilles Porte (When the Sea Rises) teams with journalist Nicolas Champeaux to examine the landmark Rivonia Trial of 1963-64 in The...
Interview: James Wilks – Louie Psihoyos’ The Game Changers
After the heavily trophied The Cove (2009) and his Mission Impossible styled eco-thriller Racing Extinction (2015), docu-helmer Louie Psihoyos once again takes aim at industry. Preeming...
Interview: AJ Schnack (Speaking Is Difficult / Field of Vision)
Free of much of the industry hustle and bustle of most major film festivals, Columbia, Missouri's True/False Film Festival is a sort of haven for...
Video Interview: Maxim Pozdorovkin & Tony Gerber (The Notorious Mr. Bout)
You may know the co-directors of The Notorious Mr. Bout for their prior individual projects, the likes include Maxim Pozdorovkin's co-directed project HBO alongside...
Video Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer – The Look of Silence
No one saw The Act of Killing coming, which makes Joshua Oppenheimer's follow-up all the more remarkable and somewhat ironic, being that The Look of Silence is...
Video Interview: Marah Strauch & Eric Bruggemann (Sunshine Superman)
Director Marah Strauch and producer Eric Bruggemann's first feature collaboration tells the exhilarating story of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement whose...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #47. Turner Ross (Western)
Jordan M. Smith: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”…
Turner Ross: Zipolite, Oaxaca. Dorothy Jean's first word (Dada). Letters of John Steinbeck.
Smith: Western...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #46. Bill Ross (Western)
Jordan M. Smith: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”…
Bill Ross: Richard Slotkin lectures on itunes. Terry Allen’s album “Juarez”. Dusty and Sweets...
Interview: A.J. Edwards – The Better Angels
It's with good reason that producer Terrence Malick has gotten top billing in the PR campaign for The Better Angels, namely the ethereal tone...
Interview: Frederick Wiseman – National Gallery
Frederick Wiseman could be called a lot of things, but amongst those would surely be the word legend. With his latest feature, National Gallery, the...
Interview: Robert Greene & Brandy Burre (Actress)
Having recently been picked up for theatrical distribution by The Cinema Guild, director Robert Greene's latest documentary digs deep into the idea of life as...
Interview: Margaret Brown (The Great Invisible)
She heartbreakingly depicted the demons wrestled by a troubled singer/songwriter in Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005), explored the...
Interview: Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters
Throughout the filming of his heart-wrenching new film, The Overnighters, director Jesse Moss acted as a sort of cinephilic one man band, shooting the...
Interview: Daniel Dencik (Expedition to the End of the World)
There is a massive stylistic difference between director Daniel Dencik's meditative 8 mm cycling film, Moon Rider, and his second, character clashing adventure, Expedition...
2014 Hot Docs Film Festival Interview: Director Jessica Oreck (The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga)
Meeting up with director Jessica Oreck at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival in the lobby of a hotel in the museum district of...
Interview: Andrew Rossi (Ivory Tower)
Andrew Rossi's prior film, Page One: Inside the New York Times, delved into the newspaper industry while it began to teeter on the brink of...
Interview: Petra Costa (Elena)
For director Petra Costa, filmmaking is more than just an artistic expression, but an opportunity for intensely personal emotional dissection. With her most recent...
Interview: AJ Schnack and Nathan Truesdell (Caucus and We Always Lie To Strangers)
Director AJ Schnack and his producing partner Nathan Truesdell had an incredibly busy week at the 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival, peddling a pair...
Interview: Doug Block (112 Weddings)
Being that roughly half of the human population at some point in their life embark on the insanity that is marriage, it's unlikely you've...
Interview: Stephanie Soechtig, Laurie David & Heather Reisman (Fed Up)
Stephanie Soechtig's latest film had its premiere earlier this year in Park City where, amidst a host of other issue driven documentaries in the...
Interview: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel (Finding Vivian Maier)
When first time filmmaker John Maloof stumbled upon Vivian Maier's mysterious, but gorgeous body of work at auction back in 2009, he did not...
Interview: Frank Pavich (Jodorowsky’s Dune)
You might remember Frank Pavich from his history of the New York hardcore music scene in N.Y.H.C., which found its release over a decade...
Interview: Lotfy Nathan (12 O’Clock Boys)
Lotfy Nathan seems to have quite the bright future ahead of him with his bold docu debut, 12 O’Clock Boys, finding it’s world premiere...
Interview: Shaul Schwarz (Narco Cultura)
Shaul Schwarz comes from a different ilk of filmmaker than your standard shooter of vérité imagery and sit down interviews. He made his name...
Interview: Steve Hoover (Blood Brother)
Steve Hoover hasn't been known for his non-fiction fare, working mainly on commercial projects and music videos through his co-owned production company Endeavor Media...
Interview: Marta Cunningham (Valentine Road)
Larry King, the 15 year-old boy who's murder became the genesis for Marta Cunningham's jaw-dropping, tear-jerking powerhouse investigative debut, Valentine Road, is memorialized through...
Interview: Zachary Heinzerling, Ushio & Noriko Shinohara (Cutie and the Boxer)
Despite director Zachary Heinzerling's Emmy nominated resume work and the fact that he took part in New York Film Festival's Emerging Visions program last...
Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing)
Rooted in the experience of those who lived with killers as neighbors, somewhere along the way, it’s docu-helmer found that he’d have a more...
Interview: Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks)
Just a month before Bradley Manning finally appeared before a military judge to confess that he did indeed leak thousands of sensitive military documents,...
