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Filmmaker Diaries : Episode 1 / Mort Aux Lapins

Siggy Dollar is an American filmmaker and musician located in Nashville, TN. His band The Pale Figures released a double record called Mort Aux Lapins Volume 4 and 5 in 2022. Siggy and The Pale Figures are currently filming a feature length film called Mort Aux Lapins. Mort Aux Lapins is a movie by Siggy…

Netflix’s “Money Shot: The Pornhub Story” : Exclusive Interview with Director Suzanne Hillinger and Editor Alexis Johnson 

Synopsis : Pornhub, the internet’s most famous adult entertainment platform, fundamentally changed how pornography is made and distributed. This enabled erotic content creators to reach a massive audience while the company made billions of dollars — but it also became embroiled in allegations including non-consensual material and trafficking on the site. As anti-trafficking organizations seek…

Carthage Film Festival: Capitale Parenthèse / Exclusive Interview With Nadia El Fani

French-Tunisian director, screenwriter and producer Nadia El Fani has always been an advocate of freedom of expression throughout her cinematic work. She was born in Paris and moved with her family to her father’s homeland, Tunisia. El Fani began her filmmaking path as assistant director to the likes of Roman Polanski, Nouri Bouzid, Romain Goupil…

“Aurora’s Sunrise” : Exclusive Video Interview with Director Inna Sahakyan for Armenia’s Selection for the Oscar

Check out more video interviews on our YouTube channel. This year, Armenia submitted Inna Sahakyan’s Aurora’s Sunrise, as its selection for the International Feature Academy Award, making it the second year in a row with a country submitting an animated doc to the category following last year’s Oscar-nominated Flee from Denmark. Aurora Mardiganian lost her…

Carthage Film Festival: La Fellinette / Exclusive Interview With Francesca Fabbri Fellini

Niece of the great maestro Federico Fellini and daughter of actress Maddalena Fellini and Giorgio Fabbri, Francesca Fabbri Fellini is a film director and critic who hosted a weekly radio programme on the Italian radio station RTL, entirely devoted to cinema.  Her short film La Fellinette, that tributes the oneiric work of her uncle, is…

The Innsbruck Nature Film Festival: Patrick And The Whale / Exclusive Interview With Producer Wolfgang Knöpfler

Wolfgang Knöpfler is an internationally experienced film producer, specialised in documentary filmmaking, who has worked across five continents, in over fifty countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Most of the projects he has been involved with were produced for major networks including National Geographic, WNET, PBS, Discovery, BBC and blue chip broadcasters in Germany, Austria, France…

Exclusive Interview With Livia De Paolis About Her World Of Fantasy In ‘The Lost Girls’

Livia De Paolis introduces us to a world where reality meets the imagination. The Lost Girls follows four generations of Darling women — Wendy Sr. (Vanessa Redgrave, Siobhan Hewlett), Jane (Joely Richardson, Tilly Marsan), Wendy Jr. (Livia De Paolis, Emily Carey, Amelia Minto), Berry (Ella-Rae Smith) — who struggle with reality in the aftermath of…

Deep Throat : Exclusive Interview with Gerard Damiano Jr., Christar Damiano and Robin Leonardi on the 50th Anniversary of a Sexual Revolutionized Film

An iconic zeitgeist of the sexual revolution and the first adult film to debut in mainstream theatrical cinema, breaking box office records in 1972, filmmaker Gerard Damiano Sr.’s controversial film Deep Throat (still considered to be the most profitable film of all time)  will have a global event cinema experience celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the film. Synopsis : Linda, frustrated…

Zero Contact : Exclusive Interview / Director Rick Dugdale Challenges with Zoom Setting in Pandemic Time Through the NFT Release

Synopsis : Starring Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs), this high-tech thriller chillingly reimagines our isolated, virtual world. Hopkins plays Finley Hart, the eccentric genius behind a global data-mining program. Upon his death, five remote agents — including Finley’s son — are contacted by a mysterious A.I. entity to reactivate the…

Interview With Massimiliano Gallo On His Debut Documentary About E.Marinella

Neapolitan Massimiliano Gallo comes from an artistic family. His father Nunzio was an Italian singer and his mother Bianca was an actress. Following this creative legacy he forged himself into a versatile actor, performing both on stage and on screen. For the latter his first film was Fortapàsc directed by Marco Risi and he then…

Exclusive Interview With Spiritual Filmmaker Lorcan O’Toole

Lorcan O’Toole is a filmmaker, writer, alchemist, musician and spirit-medium. As the name gives away, his father, was the wondrous Peter O’Toole, and Lorcan is heightening the legacy of the legendary actor, by introducing a revolutionary approach to the cinematic medium.  The young O’Toole also has a background in acting, with powerful performances in films…