Interviews

In honor of International Women’s Day, Hollywood Foreign Press Association member David Caspi hosts this episode of our Golden Globes Around the World podcast series featuring Israeli actresses, sisters Moran Atias and Shani Atias, to discuss their new women empowerment initiative titled “Me First”. Moran Atias first rose to fame as a fashion model in Italy, with noted designer Roberto Cavalli taking her under his wing and later walking the runways for major brands, namely Dolce and Gabbana with whom she formed a close bond.

Cyrus Neshvad’s mother told horrifying stories at the dinner table in Luxembourg. It was back in 2019 and she had heard from several family members on the phone from Iran that a lot of women were disappearing without a trace.

Ramin Sohrab made the first Iranian-Finnish action movie against all odds. Layers of Lies is a redemption, revenge, and love story.

Heba Khaled sees it as her quest to speak for Syrian women who do not have a voice and who do not know how to protect their rights. With Under the Sky of Damascus, the Syrian director sheds light on a culture that is not yet ready for this quest.

Michael Lombardi (Rescue Me) stars in the revenge horror thriller, The Retaliators for which he also serves as producer. The film, which also stars Marc Menchaca (Ozark), and Joseph Gatt (Game of Thrones) is about an upstanding pastor who uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter’s murder.

The year was 2021, and the place the Cannes Film Festival.  La Civil, a co-production between Romania, Belgium, and Mexico, shocked the audience at the Un Certain Regard section with the poignant tale of a mother who is looking for her kidnapped daughter in the dangerous areas of Northern Mexico.

Ulises de la Orden has spent the last few years trying to tell the story of the historic Juntas Trial that took place in Argentina in 1985, summarizing 530 hours of footage in a three-hour documentary. With a vast career as a documentary filmmaker, he did not imagine that a fiction film like Argentina, 1985 would tell that same story in such a brilliant way as to win the 2023 Golden Globe for Best Picture – Non-English Language.

Eric Guilmette is an American model turned actor from Massachusetts who has reached the milestone of gracing the covers of one hundred books. As an actor, he’s known for Jurassic Domination (in which he starred alongside Eric Roberts), about two military-made dinosaurs that attack a small mountain town.

When Nigeria’s Filmhouse Group Holdings completed the repositioning of its FilmOne Studios division, it announced that Mimi Bartels was appointed General Manager.   FilmOne Studios will be a standalone production outfit separate from FilmOne Entertainment.