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Damien Chazelle to Direct New Feature for Paramount

According to an announcement at CinemaCom, Paramount will be backing Damien Chazelle’s next film, despite the red ink the studio incurred in producing his Babylon, which reportedly lost some $87 million. Few details are available about the new project, but it reportedly will be set in a prison and will be scripted by the director…

Actress Susan Park on SXSW Pilot Lucy & Sara

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Actress Susan Park, best known for her performances in television series like Fargo, Vice Principals, Snowpiercer, and High Desert, makes her directorial debut with Lucy & Sara, an offbeat TV series screening in the Independent TV Pilot Competition at the SXSW Film & TV…

Exclusive Interview: Noora Niasari & Zar Amir Ebrahimi on ‘Shayda’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Shayda made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival just over one year ago and took home the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. It was then selected as Australia’s official Oscar entry for the Best International Feature race. This was…

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project/ Interview with Directors

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Nikki Giovanni is not a typical subject, and so it makes sense that a film about her wouldn’t be typical either. Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is officially on the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature (read…

Exclusive Video Interview: Director Charlotte Regan on the Sundance Winning Film ‘Scrapper’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Writer-director Charlotte Regan makes her feature film debut with Scrapper, a funny, endearing story of a twelve-year-old girl named Georgie (Lola Campbell) living alone in London and the unexpected reunion she has with her previously absent father Jason (Harris Dickinson). Campbell is a breakout…

Woody Allen Denies He’s Retirement From Filmmaking

A prolific New York director Woody Allen has announced his retirement from filmmaking. Currently, he’s in Europe to tackle his 50th film, Allen had spilled the beans on the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that he decided to leave the director’s chair only to focus on his writing about his twilight years.  The 86-year-old filmmaker’s last…

Director Ava DuVernay Discusses Her New Online Venture — Array Crew

Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Ava DuVernay became the first Black woman creator to get Sundance Film Festival directing award in 2012 for her feature, Middle of Nowhere. Her feature Selma made history in being the first film directed by a black woman director to be nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Picture….

Interview with Director Taylor Morden for “The Last Blockbuster”

In Making “The Last Blockbuster,” Director Taylor Morden Reminds Us of Many Visit to The Video Store That Made the Screen Come Alive  There was a time, going to the video rental store, was an adventure in and of itself. Without laying out a wad of cash, one could take home armfuls of cinematic pleasure…

SXSW Interview : WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn Premieres at SXSW 2021 Reflecting the old chestnut, “truth is stranger than fiction,” the documentary, WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn illustrates that saying perfectly. Director Jed Rothstein’s doc feature tells of the incredibly swift rise of WeWork co-founder…

Alex Goldstein

Alex Goldstein is a New York based documentary filmmaker. online pharmacy levaquin over the counter with best prices today in the USA He had co-directed the short documentary “GENERATION FUERZA” (2018) which screened at the Oaxaca Film Festival. This is his first independently directed short film. He is also a producer of several non-fiction cable…