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NYAFF / How Dare you? : Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Mipo O

 © 2025 HDY production committee “How Dare You”?A quirky grade schooler develops a crush on his schoolmate, she gives an impassioned speech about saving the environment in this winningly observant and bittersweet cautionary tale. Grade schooler Yuishi becomes infatuated with schoolmate Kokoa when she gives an impassioned class speech about saving the environment in the…

‘She Rides Shotgun’ Stars Taron Egerton and Ana Sophia Heger on the Exciting Action-Thriller  (Video Interview)

Ever since he was introduced as Eggsy in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service and later played Elton John in Rocketman, actor Taron Egerton has been making waves with the projects he takes on, especially as he gets more involved with producing. He is credited as one of the producers on She Rides Shotgun, a…

New York Asian Film Festival / Ravens : Q&A with Mark Gill & Tadanobu Asano

Check Out More of Our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on  TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at…

NYAFF : Transcending Dimensions / Exclusive Interview with Writer/ Director Toshiaki Toyoda

©DIMENSIONS NYAFF 2025 Filmmaker in Focus : Toshiaki Toyoda immerses viewers in an aesthetically transfixing vision of inner and outer worlds, set against a backdrop of collapsing realities and cosmic uncertainty. DIRECTOR : Toshiaki Toyoda YEAR : 2025 COUNTRY : Japan RUNTIME : 97 minutes LANGUAGE : Japanese with English subtitles ORIGINAL TITLE : 次元を超える…

Life After : Exclusive Interview with Director Reid Davenport and Producer Colleen Cassingham

©Courtesy of Multitude Films In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom trials, Bouvia disappeared from public view. Disabled director Reid Davenport narrates this investigation of what happened to Bouvia and her story’s relevance…

Japan Cuts : She Taught Me Serendipity / Exclusive Interview with Actress Yuumi Kawai 

Director Akiko Ooku (“Tremble All You Want“, JC 2018) shifts away from her novel engagements with the neurotic interiorities of young working women to explore the life of college student Konishi (Riku Hagiwara), an anxiety-ridden loner who brandishes an umbrella on sunlit days. Through a progression of coincidences, Konishi forms a bond with classmate Hana…

‘Oh, Hi!’ Filmmaker Sophie Brooks and Stars Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman (Video Interview)

Relationships can be tough to maintain, but when we meet Molly Shannon’s Iris and Logan Lerman’s Isaac at the beginning of Sophie Brooks’ Oh, Hi!, they seem to be the cutest and most perfect couple, as they take their first long weekend away together at a remote house next to a lake. Oh,Hi! starts like…

‘Sovereign’, Exclusive Video Interview With Screenwriter and Director Christian Swegal

©Courtesy of  Check out more of our YouTube Channel. Adriano Ercolani : Italian Film Critic and TV Author living in New York since 2011. Critics Choice Association member. Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter Italy, Comingsoon.it, Cinefilos.it…

Japan Cuts : “A Girl Named Ann” / Q&A with Actress Yuumi Kawai

Check out our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on  TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at the New…

Tornado : Exclusive Interview with Actor Jack Lowden, Working with Takehiro Hira and Kôki

©Courtesy of IFC Films Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on  TV Tokyo’s program…

Hot Milk : Exclusive Interview with Director Rebecca Lenkiewicz

©Courtesy of IFC Films Check out more of Our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on  TV Tokyo’s program…