Interview

Award-winning film director Katja Gauriloff’s new movie, Je'vida is a story about the importance of discovering and accepting your roots. An aunt and her niece meet for the first time when they drive to Finnish Lapland to empty a house they’ve inherited.

Bronwyn Cosgrave has the kind of credits every Instagram fashionista wants. The former Features Editor of British Vogue curated Designing 007 - with the Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming.

Leah Meyerhoff takes us behind the curtain of Film Fatales, an art nonprofit that has been crucial for a more gender diverse equity presence in the entertainment business. For decades, the film industry has struggled with gender disparities and systemic biases that have limited opportunities for gender-marginalized creators.

“How do you respond when the great Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24) says, ‘We’ve a role for you,’ then describes the character as, ‘A mess who makes terrible decisions with men and is not a funny comedian…?’” So asks comedian Whitney Cummings of the packed theater in West Hollywood at the THR Live event, pausing with perfect timing so the audience’s laughter won’t drown out her next words. The circumstances faced by her character on Fox’s Accused moved the women’s activist deeply.

When director Josephine Landertinger Forero first met Cris, he was one of the "honorary members of the poverty club" abandoned in a remote corner of the Caribbean Sea. But the experienced eye of the documentary filmmaker knew that the island where the young man lived, Tierra Bomba, was too small for him.

The Netflix film A Beautiful Life has a simple premise: Elliott is a fisherman who lives a quiet life in a small town in Denmark. His friend Oliver dreams of becoming a rock star, but when the widow of a legendary star named Suzanne hears Elliott and Oliver perform, it is Elliott that she wants to lead on a journey to pop stardom.

Angela Lee is the Director of Artist Development at Film Independent, a non-profit that aims to foster inclusion and innovation in the world of visual storytelling. Lee not only is a successful producer in her own right, but she also leads some of the most forward and relevant fiction and non-fiction storytelling labs and programs in the USA.

It happened by sheer coincidence. As Johnny Depp was walking up the steps at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes on the night of May 16, truckloads of Nick Wallis’ book “Depp v Heard” were being shipped, unpacked and put in the windows at the stores in the United Kingdom.

Cara Cusamano is perhaps one of the busiest people in New York City these days, ahead of the opening of the Tribeca Festival (TF) 2023, in which she has a double role as Director and VP of Programming. After being a regular attendee at the Festival’s first edition (2002), Cusamano became professionally involved in 2007, and has not stopped since, having held, she says, “every role within the programming team” so far.

It’s been 15 years since RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered on basic cable channel Logo TV. But it was only after shifting to VH1 in 2017 and, just this past year, to MTV – gaining millions of viewers along the way through mass global distribution and spinning off onto international editions – that the multi-Emmy winning reality competition show has truly cemented its pop culture status.