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Exclusive Video Interview With Executive Director Samuel Jamier on The 20th New York Asian Film Festival

Check out more of our video interviews and reviews on our YouTube Channel. Samuel Jamier, Executive Director of the New York Asian Film Festival, is a polyglot and cosmopolitan cinephile. His European studies, between France and London, his Korean heritage and collaborations with Japanese institutions, have given him a a worldly perspective on the art…

My Old School : Exclusive Interview with Director Jono McLeod

Synopsis : In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. Brandon had been privately tutored in Canada while he accompanied his mother, an opera diva, on tour before her tragic death. The…

The Gray Man : Press Conference with Actors Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Alfre Woodard, Rege-Jean Page, Jessica Henwick, Billy Bob Thorton, Dhanush, Julia Butters, and Writers/Directors Joe and Anthony Russo

Synopsis : When the CIA’s most skilled operative-whose true identity is known to none-accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, a psychopathic former colleague puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins. Press Conference with Actors Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Alfre Woodard, Rege-Jean Page, Jessica Henwick, Billy Bob…

Exclusive Video Interview: Nana Mensah on Making Her Directorial Debut with ‘Queen of Glory’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Actress Nana Mensah, who starred in Netflix’s The Chair and had a role in the A24 Sundance hit After Yang, makes her directorial debut with Queen of Glory, which won her the Best New Narrative Director prize at the Tribeca Festival last year. Described…

Murina : Exclusive Interview with Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic on the Cannes Winning Film

Synopsis : Tensions rise between restless teenager Julija and her oppressive father Ante when an old family friend arrives at their Croatian island home. As Ante attempts to broker a life-changing deal, their tranquil yet isolated existence leaves Julija wanting more from this influential visitor, who provides a taste of liberation over a weekend laid bare…

Thirteen Lives : Press Conference with Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, Tom Bateman, James Teeradon, Ploy Pattrakorn, Boo Sahajak

Synopsis :Thirteen Lives recounts the incredible true story of the tremendous global effort to rescue a Thai soccer team who become trapped in the Tham Luang cave during an unexpected rainstorm. Faced with insurmountable odds, a team of the world’s most skilled and experienced divers — uniquely able to navigate the maze of flooded, narrow…

Interview with Actress Jessica Chastain and Actor Ralph Fiennes on “The Forgiven”

Synopsis : Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend’s lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy. online pharmacy chloroquine over the counter with best prices today in the USA Arriving late at the grand…

Dreaming Walls : Inside the Chelsea Hotel / Exclusive Interview with Directors Maya Duverdier and Amélie van Elmbt 

Synopsis : The legendary Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture and a haven for famous artists and intellectuals including Patti Smith, Janis Joplin and the superstars of Warhol’s Factory, has recently reopened after extensive renovations, which are now almost complete. Dozens of long-term residents, many in their later years, have lived amidst the scaffolding…

Exclusive Video Interview: Director Emma Holly Jones on Making ‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. When she started writing her novel Mr. Malcolm’s List, Suzanne Allain initially thought about setting her clever love story in the present world of dating. But as she wrote it, she realized it was a perfect fit for the 19th century instead, where one…

HBO Max / Endangered : Exclusive Interview with Director Heidi Ewing 

Synopsis : Endangered chronicles a year in the life of four journalists reporting inside Mexico, Brazil and the United States — three democratic nations where the view of the press is rapidly deteriorating. As newsrooms shutter around them, misinformation proliferates, and world leaders brazenly suppress free speech, Patrícia, Carl, Sáshenka and Oliver risk their sanity…

Exclusive Interview With Fanny Ardant at the Brussels International Film Festival

French actress Fanny Ardant has performed in more than eighty films, thirty plays, twenty television dramas and is recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards for Pédale douce (Soft Pedal) by Gabriel Aghion and for La Belle Époque by Nicolas Bedos, as well as a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.  There is no other thespian who possesses her…