Tag: U.S. Indie Film Interview
Video Interview: Mona Fastvold & Brady Corbet (The Sleepwalker)
Among 2014's class of best new voices in the film landscape (which includes Eliza Hittman (It Felt Like Love), Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl...
Interview: Christopher Abbott & Gitte Witt (The Sleepwalker)
In The Sleepwalker (Sundance Selects / limited release 11.21), filmmaker Mona Fastvold sequesters her quartet of players in mostly volatile sibling, lover and fighter pairings. Architecturally speaking,...
Interview: Stephanie Ellis (Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker)
The fine line of a repressed memory can get especially fuzzy when what is factual, what is imagined, what is suggested and what is...
Interview: Gregg Araki – White Bird in a Blizzard
We sat down with director Gregg Araki at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival after the premiere of his new film, White Bird in a...
Interview: Cutter Hodierne (Fishing without Nets)
With a short film that shares a lot more DNA than simply the same title, the award-winning 2012 film essentially served as a working blueprint...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Zachary Wigon (The Heart Machine)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This October, we put the spotlight on an...
Interview: Carter Smith – Jamie Marks is Dead
At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, we sat down with director Carter Smith to discuss his new film, Jamie Marks is Dead, which played...
Interview: Mark Jackson (War Story)
With the constant reminders of the past affixed to the present, the continual struggle with identity and mental toll associated with the warfare of...
Interview: Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz (Land Ho!)
Sporting their own traditional Icelandic sweater (known as the lopapeysa), I had the chance to sit down with Land Ho! creative pair Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz...
Interview: Lucy Mulloy (Una Noche)
Blood is thicker than water. It's what keeps the twin protagonists in Lucy Mulloy's award-winning feature debut from keeling over, and perhaps best describes the...
Interview: Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station
It’s how he presents his flawed characters and how he addresses certain social commentaries in his trio of short films (Locks, Gap, and Fig)...
Interview: Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley (Sun Don’t Shine)
In actor/producer Amy Seimetz’s Sun Don’t Shine, a lost and forlorn couple, Crystal and Leo (exquisitely played by Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley)...
Interview: Sean Baker & Dree Hemingway – Starlet
Sean Baker’s third feature film, Starlet, finds him exploring the world of sun soaked California through the eyes of porn star Jane, played by...
In the Pipeline: Lance Edmands
If you live there, you know Maine is much more than just lobsters and lighthouses. Filmmaker, Lance Edmands, is going to introduce the rest of us to the local side of his home state in his feature film debut, Bluebird. Set in a small Maine town, it’s about a school bus driver who accidentally locks a young boy in a school bus on a cold winter night. The boy is taken to the hospital the next day. The story follows the aftermath of this tragedy and how it affects and changes the families involved.
