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Suncoast : Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Laura Chinn

©Eric Zachanowich/Searchlight Pictures Synopsis : Inspired by Chinn’s life experience from the early 2000s, follows a teenager (Nico Parker) living with her strong-willed mother (Laura Linney), who must take her brother to live at a specialized facility. There, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Woody Harrelson) amidst protests surrounding one of…

Perfect Days : Exclusive Interview with Actor Koji Yakusho and Director Wim Wenders

@Courtesy of Neon Synopsis : Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his…

Tokyo Vice : Exclusive Interview with Creator J.T. Rogers and Director/Executive Producer Alan Poul

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel J. T. Rogers is an American Playwright who lives in New York. Rogers’s plays include Oslo, Blood and Gifts, The Overwhelming, White People, and Madagascar. In 2017, Rogers’ Oslo won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, the Obie Award for Best New American Theatre Work,the…

The Tiger’s Apprentice : Exclusive Interview with Actors Brandon Soo Hoo and Kheng Hua Tan

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Brandon Soo Hoo (born November 2, 1995) is an American actor and martial artist known for playing Tran in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder and for his series regular role on the Cartoon Network sketch comedy series Incredible Crew. Soo Hoo played Scott Fuller on…

Past Lives : Press Conference with Director Celine Song, Actor Greta Lee

Synopsis : Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. Rating: PG-13 (Some…

Willie and Me : Exclusive Interview with Director Eva Haßmann

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Music means different things to different people. For some, hearing a specific song or artist at a specific time in their life can change the way they think. Those feelings can stay with you for a long time, too. And when you have a…

Sundance Film Festival / Black Box Diaries : Exclusive Interview with Director Shiori Ito

Photo by Tsutomo Harigaya, Courtesy of Sundance Institute ◎ Director Shiori Ito talks about her debut feature film, “Black Box Diaries,” which she directs and investigates her own sexual assault case.  Marking Sundance Film Festival’s 40th anniversary, it received 17,435 submissions from 153 countries; of the 4,410 features 1,679 were from the United States and 2,741…

Ennio : Exclusive Interview with Director Giuseppe Tornatore

©Ennio Morricone in Ennio. Courtesy of Music Box Films. Synopsis : A feature documentary directed by Giuseppe Tornatore about the life and work of legendary composer, Ennio Morricone, including interviews with renowned filmmakers and musicians, recordings from Morricone’s acclaimed world concert tours, clips of classic films scored by Morricone and exclusive footage of scenes and…

Sundance Film Festival : And So It Begins / Exclusive interview with Director Ramon S. Diaz, former Vice President of the Philippines, Leni Robredo, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa.

©Cinediaz And So It Begins : Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening threats to truth and democracy. In a collective act of joy as a form of resistance, hope flickers against the backdrop of increasing autocracy. With the end of Rodrigo…

Sebastian / Sundance Film Festival : Exclusive Interview with Director Mikko Makela

Sebastian : Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel. A Finnish-British writer-director Mikko Mäkelä explores the transgressive power of queer sexuality and the transformative impact that can result from embracing a new identity. Far from simply informing his secretly…

The Seeding : Exclusive Video Interview with Actor Scott Haze

Director/Writer Barnaby Clay: “TheSeeding deals with big themes, but in a small, contained way, almost like a brutal adult version of a children’s story or fable – something to bore under your skin and stick around for a while. I hope, like all great horror, it speaks some truth about human nature, even if its a side…