Tag: U.S. Indie Film Interview
Interview: Haley Elizabeth Anderson – Tendaberry
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...
Interview: Producer Carlos Zozaya – Tendaberry
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...
Interview: Summer Shelton – You & I
Not unlike how a young Athina Rachel Tsangari ended up being part of a Richard Linklater film, Summer Shelton has been part of the...
Interview: Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Whiplash receives a 10th Anniversary re-release - reissued with a new 4K DCP via Sony Pictures Classics and coming directly from a showcase at...
Interview: Jane Casey Modderno / Here for the Weekend – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
After crafting half a dozen shorts and adding to her repertoire with recent social platform/television writing on horror series like "The Birch" followed by...
Interview: Alexandra Qin – Thirstygirl (Short)
In our recently published Top 10 short films of 2024 Sundance Film Festival, we identified Thirstygirl - an intimate, candid, taboo-free ten-minute travelogue and...
Interview: Robert Machoian – The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
Robert Machoian’s The Integrity of Joseph Chambers is a meticulous, farcical character study of the titular anti-hero (repeat collaborator Clayne Crawford), who tries to...
Interview: RJ Cyler – Emergency
Carey Williams’ Emergency—with a script by KD Davila, adapted from Williams’ 2018 Sundance short—won the coveted Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance ’22 …...
Interview: Christopher Makoto Yogi – I Was a Simple Man | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Having just held the world premiere to August at Akiko in Rotterdam, Christopher Makoto Yogi has a slate full of feature film projects including...
Interview: Gillian Wallace Horvat – I Blame Society
Filmmaking and killing become metaphors for each other in the deranged satire of I Blame Society, which starts out as a personal documentary about...
Video Interview: Adam Leon – Italian Studies
NYC-based auteur Adam Leon brings high-profile talent and understated storytelling to Tribeca FF 2021 with Italian Studies, his third feature film. The indelible Vanessa...
Interview: Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe – The Beta Test
In real life, Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe are close friends, bickering and chiding one another as they join our Zoom for an interview....
Video Interview: Producer Natalie Metzger – The Beta Test / Werewolves Within
Natalie Metzger is that producer of indie darlings who always seems to have multiple feature films in any given festival. You may know Metzger...
Interview: Carlson Young – The Blazing World
Visually stunning and psychically rending, The Blazing World is Carlson Young’s feature film debut; she writes, directs and stars without missing a step. Inspired...
Interview: Edson Oda – Nine Days
Edson Oda’s debut feature Nine Days, is, quite simply, miraculous. This spiritual-fiction (“spi-fi”—coined by supporting lead Benedict Wong) film follows Will (Winston Duke in...
Video Interview: Janicza Bravo – Zola
We could label Janicza Bravo's sophomore feature as a road-trip misadventure and about getting a raw deal in a set number of twitter character...
Video Interview: Francesca Reale – Dating and New York
Francesca Reale is soon to be a household name. You may remember her gruesome fate in Stranger Things 3, or her more straight-laced roles...
Video Interview: Jonah Feingold – Dating and New York
First-time feature filmmaker Jonah Feingold’s Dating and New York is a winsome rom-com, yes, but it’s also much more. A mordant anti-fairy tale about...
Interview: Jeffrey Wright & A$AP Rocky – Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Acting mainstay Jeffrey Wright jumps between mainstream and indie productions like it’s his job. In fact, it is: Wright’s résumé includes Broadway (Angels in...
Interview: Kelvin Harrison Jr. – Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Kelvin Harrison Jr. first came to Sundance with Birth of a Nation in 2016, then Oscar-nominated Mudbound in 2017. This past year, he was...
Interview: Producers Tonya Lewis Lee, Nikki Silver, Mike Jackson, Daniel Crown & Yoni Liebling – Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Sundance ’18 crowd-favorite Monster tells the agonizing tale of a 17-year-old honors student in a racially-charged legal battle. Adapted from Walter Dean Meyers’ award-winning...
Video Interview: Lissette Feliciano (Women is Losers) – 2021 SXSW Film Festival
Writer/director Lissette Feliciano’s debut feature, Women is Losers —named after the Janis Joplin song—is an exuberant seminar on feminist history that challenges both gender...
Interview: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte – Dreamland
At age 23, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte won a Sundance Special Jury Prize for his first feature film, As You Are. Set in his Albany NY...
Interview: Mark Webber – The Place of No Words
Mark Webber likes to go his own way, animated by a peaceful yet intense desire to make cinema out of the emotional landscape of...
Interview: Haroula Rose – Once Upon a River
The well traveled musician (with fanbases in surprising spots around the globe) and filmmaker Haroula Rose got her first producing credit for Ryan Coogler's...
Interview: Author Tom Sturges – The Lady Eve | Criterion Collection
I had the chance to speak to Tom Sturges (noted music executive, author, and speaker), the son of director Preston Sturges, to converse about...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Mark Jackson’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? In 2018, Mark Jackson launched his third feature...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Mark Jackson – This Teacher
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we are extremely honored to feature...
Video Interview: Laura Moss & Brendan O’Brien (Birth/Rebirth) – 2020 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab
Most recently collaborating on the 1989-set coming-of-ager (set against the backdrop of Ted Bundy's execution) SXSW selected short Fry Day, they continued their creative output...
Video Interview: Andrew Thomas Huang (Tiger Girl) – 2020 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab
A multidisciplinary visual effects artist who has previously worked with the likes of Perfume Genius, Thom Yorke, FKA Twigs and most notably Björk (he...
Interview: Katharine O’Brien – Lost Transmissions
Director Katharine O’Brien makes her feature debut with Lost Transmissions, an LA-set drama about mental illness and its effect on a budding friendship between...
Interview: Jason Orley, Griffin Gluck + Cast & Crew – Big Time Adolescence
Did you ever befriend your older sister’s boyfriend—then stay friends with him long after they’d broken up? OK, Big Time Adolescence is a very...
Interview: Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan – Saint Frances
Ostensibly the story of a relationship between a nanny and the 6-yr-old girl she’s looking after, Alex Thompson’s Saint Frances mixes drama and comedy...
Interview: Producer Jay Van Hoy | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw (Indie Star Award)
A quiet but influential presence in the North-American indie scene, producer Jay Van Hoy has built an impressive filmography since he started Parts &...
Interview: Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
For his sophomore feature, Alistair Banks Griffin proposes a phobia friendly transgressive and forbidding drama that makes strange bedfellows out of the process of...
Interview: Jennifer Reeder – Knives and Skin
Following her sophomore feature, Signature Move (SXSW '17) and capping off a remarkably fruitful decade in filmmaking with this neon-coated, Solondz-esque meets Lynchian icing...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Tom Quinn – Colewell
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we feature filmmaker Tom Quinn who...
Interview: Riley Stearns – The Art of Self-Defense | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw
A meek, introverted loner turns to karate as a way of coping with trauma after being violently attacked in Riley Stearns follow-up to 2014’s...
Interview: Annabelle Attanasio – Mickey and the Bear
How does free will exist when moral responsibility, opportunity and happenstance constantly impede on an individual's further actions? Blending themes of attachment, addiction and...
Interview: Dan Krauss, Nat Wolff & Alexander Skarsgård – The Kill Team
Academy-award nominated filmmaker Dan Krauss returned to Tribeca this year with The Kill Team, based on his documentary of the same name (a 2013...
Interview: Producer Natalie Metzger – Greener Grass
The old adage “behind every great man there’s a great woman” feels outdated in 2019. Nowadays, men are lucky to stand side-by-side with a...
Interview: Rick Alverson – The Mountain
The Mountain feels like a departure for Rick Alverson, whose brand of deliberately challenging and unconventional cinema is evolving beyond the scope of his...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Nia DaCosta – Ten Influential Films List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, Nia...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Nia DaCosta – Little Woods
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we are pleased to re-introduce writer...
Interview: Nia Dacosta – Little Woods
A New York-native, first time writer/director Nia DaCosta premiered her poignant family drama, Little Woods, on home turf at Tribeca 2018. Set in the...
Interview: Nia DaCosta – Little Woods | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Selected for the US Narrative Competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, we've been tracking Nia DaCosta's feature debut project since sitting down with...
Interview: Elizabeth Rao – Madeline’s Madeline
Flashback to one of the best films of 2018, we had the chance to meet Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline co-editor and producer Elizabeth Rao...
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: Barbara Cigarroa – El Otro Lado (The Other Side) | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Barbara Cigarroa who brought - El Otro Lado (The...
Interview: Adrienne Rush – This Land is Your Land | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Adrienne Rush who brought This Land is Your Land...
