Interview

Studio 54 will forever be embraced as one of the premiere dance clubs the world has ever encountered. Opened during the height of the disco era, the iconic club was more than just music.

For the past few years, the Venice Film Festival has had a special section for Virtual Reality. As AI dominating the cultural discussion and Apple releasing its first VR headset – albeit for a price the general public is unable to afford – we sat down with two filmmakers who have used this new medium to tell their stories.

Joan Miró i Ferrà was one of Spain’s most celebrated artists. He was born on April 20th, 1893, in Barcelona, Spain; his mother was a goldsmith, his father a watchmaker.

Czech filmmaker Robert Hloz is definitely a new director to watch. He started his career with three successful short films: The Mill (2011) won the Kodak Student Gold Award for best short film of the year.

Director Teona Strugar Mitevska is having an “exciting” time in her life, related to the title of her last movie, The Happiest Man in the World (2022). In her case, the happiness is literal, unlike her characters that meet in a speed dating event in Sarajevo looking for a Saturday break but end up in a spiral web of twists and emotions of different tenure, including absurdity, when a woman reconnects with the man who had shot and almost killed her 30 years ago, during the ex Yugoslavia war.

Panos Koutras’ career took off in 2009 with Strella, a film about the Greek queer community. The dramedy broke new ground for Greek cinema in featuring the first transgender lead role played by a transgender woman, Mina Orfanou.

After receiving the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic competition, Sofia Aloui is now making waves in the Karlovy Vary Film Festival with her first feature film Animalia. Born in Casablanca to a Moroccan father and a French mother, Aluoi, now in her early thirties, is starting to make a promising name for herself in cinema.

Following its acclaimed freshman run, multi-language Israeli period drama series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem returns for a second season that will premiere on Netflix on July 14, when all 16 new episodes will be made available worldwide. Adapted from the 2013 best-selling novel by Israeli author Sarit Yishai-Levi, the series revolves around the drama of the tempestuous Ermosa family in 1940's Jerusalem and is also told through an earlier timeline in 1917, when the young man who will become the patriarch of the family, Gabriel Ermosa (Michael Aloni), has to sort out his future.

What happens when two highly accomplished actors get together and discuss their craft? For one, they ponder their job description – actor vs. actress.

Golden Globe winner (The Practice) Dylan McDermott has just wrapped a fourth season of FBI: Most Wanted, the CBS and Dick Wolf procedural about an FBI Fugitive Task Force that goes after notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Wolf’s franchises have been some of the most successful shows in television, with the first Law & Order originating in 1990.