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Exclusive Video Interviews: Actresses Grace Van Patten and Soko on Their Complex and Magnificent ‘Mayday’ Characters

The new film Mayday from writer-director Karen Cinorre whisks its protagonist, Ana (Grace Van Patten) away from her dreary, subservient life to a magical place where she is soon swept up in a troop of female warriors who spend their days on the radio in the hopes of bringing unsuspecting young sailors to the treacherous…

Toronto International Film Festival : Q&A with Actress Kristen Stewart on ”Spencer” and Her Career

Kristen Stewart started working in the film industry at an early age, starting alongside Jodie foster in David Fincher’s “Panic Room”, among many other roles. She went on to worldwide fame for her role as Bella and the hugely popular “Twilight” franchise. And has since worked with some of the most celebrated filmmakers of our…

Toronto International Film Festival : Memoria : Q&A with Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Starring Tilda Swinton

Q: Thank you very much for your time today. We should start with “Memoria,” your new film, which is really special, and I really love it. This is the first time you shot outside of your native Thailand. It was shot in Colombia. It’s also in a non-Thai language, it’s predominantly in Spanish with some…

Toronto International Film Festival : Q&A with Director Kenneth Branagh on His Latest Film, “Belfast”, Shakespeare Works, and Agatha Christie Films

Q: We’re going to be talking about the making of “Belfast”. Because it’s such a personal story, we want to connect it to your whole journey as a storyteller. One thing that resonates really strongly about the film is the tight-knit sense of community within and among families in Belfast. Was that your experience growing…

The Most Beautiful Boy In The World : Interview with Director Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri 

Synopsis : In 1970. The world-famous Italian director, Luchino Visconti is visiting Stockholm due to his new film Death in Venice, based on Thomas Mann’s 1912 novel of the same name. He is looking for a young boy to play the role of Tadzio, a young polish noble. At this point, Visconti has traveled around the…

The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Exclusive Interview with Actors Vincent D’Onofrio and Cherry Jones, Director Michael Showalter and Writer Abe Sylvia

Television personalities have long been subject to criticism by the American public, but not many people know the true  identities of such easily recognizable celebrities as the late televangelist-singer, Tamara Faye Bakker, who rose to fame in the mid-1960s. After watching the acclaimed 2000 documentary, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, actress Jessica Chastain decided to…

Toronto International Film Festival : All My Puny Sorrows / Interview with Actress Alison Pill , Actress Mare Winnigham and Director Michael McGowan

Sarah Gadon and Alison Pill in All My Puny Sorrows, directed by Michael McGowan. Image courtesy of AMPS Productions Inc Synopsis : Based on the international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows is the poignant story of two sisters-one a concert pianist obsessed with ending her life, the other, a writer, who…

Blue Bayou / Interview : An Exclusive Interview with Actor/Writer/Director Justin Chon 

Synopsis : From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved…

Toronto International Film Festival : Q&A with Actor Steven Yuen on “The Walking Dead”, “Okja”, “Burning”, “Minari” and “The Humans”

Q: It’s been six months now that we can introduce you as this “Oscar nominee Steven Yeun” and it will happen forever now. How are you feeling about that title? SY: There are way more worst things to be called. It was a huge honor, and a huge blessing and I guess I’m thankful that…

Exclusive Video Interviews: Max Harwood and Richard E. Grant on Why ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’

The musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, based on the documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16, first debuted at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England in 2017. Now, the inspiring story of someone who was determined to be different and show his classmates his true self is a movie, arriving on Amazon Prime Video this Friday….

Toronto International Film Festival : 20th Anniversary of “Training Day” / Q&A with Director Antione Fuqua and Actor Ethan Hawke

Synopsis : Police drama about a veteran officer who escorts a rookie on his first day with the LAPD’s tough inner-city narcotics unit. “Training Day” is a blistering action drama that asks the audience to decide what is necessary, what is heroic and what crosses the line in the harrowing gray zone of fighting urban…