Interviews

Debut filmmaker Trygvi Danielsen had no doubts. When he sat down to write the script of his first feature film, 111 Good Days (111 góðir dagar), he knew it had to be in the Faroese language.

Although Javier Porta Fouz has been the artistic director of the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, popularly known as BAFICI) since 2016, his relationship with the festival began much earlier, having programmed 19 of the previous 23 editions. In a rare moment of calm in the days before the festival, which takes place this year from April 20 to May 1, Porta Fouz told us about his expectations regarding what will happen in the coming days and what should not be missed.

25 years ago, the film about the life of the late singer Selena was released. At that time, Jennifer Lopez, who played her on the big screen, became the highest-paid Latina actress in Hollywood.

The non-profit organization Women’s Voices Now, founded in 2010, was established to drive positive social change with the purpose of advancing girls’ and women’s rights globally. The organization was built on the idea that women’s voices and their struggle for equality around the world should be supported.

Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) has sudden outbursts of anger. Emma (Linnea Leino) wishes to compete at the figure skating European championship but struggles to keep her focus.

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA), one of the HFPA grantees, champions emerging and diverse filmmakers and storytellers from around the world and provides a forum where filmmakers can be recognized for their contributions, have open audience discussions about their work and connect with industry professionals for insight on distribution, production and representation. We caught up with Larry Laboe, Co-Founder and Executive Director of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, whose industry credits include producer for Ctrl (2009) and Fact Checkers Unit.

In 2008, Robert Pattinson became famous overnight. Portraying moody vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise, based on the best-selling novels by Stephenie Meyer.

Mo Abudu has caught the world’s attention. As the daughter of Nigerian parents living in the UK, the media mogul was intent on creating African content that would travel outside of the African continent.

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (born December 16, 1978, in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the film “Drive My Car” (2021), which has been nominated for a number of prestigious film awards, including four Academy Awards, and has just recently won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language.

On Thursday, February 17th, in Los Angeles, a full retrospective dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini was inaugurated on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. It’s the first big event of a five-year partnership between the Italian studio Cinecittà and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.