Interviews

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Abel Ferrara: Allora Film Festival Interview

Independent eccentric filmmaker Abel Ferrara, a hard-core New Yorker (born in the Bronx in 1951), is in the land of his ancestors, Southern Italy, a special guest of the 1st edition of the Allora Film Festival in Ostuni, Puglia. The director of Bad Lieutenant (1992), King of New York, Body Snatchers, The Addiction (1995), The Blackout and many documentaries on the most varied subjects (among them the city of Naples and writer/filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini) talked to an enthusiastic crowd of young filmmakers and students during the festival.
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Podcast: Kevin Feige on a Big Marvel Year

    In 2019, Marvel President Kevin Feige sat down with HFPA journalist Anke Hofmann to talk about one of the biggest years in the company’s history following the success of Black Panther, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Avengers: End Game. Three years later, Marvel has reached even greater heights with blockbusters including Black Widow (2021), Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Eternals (2021), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Eternals (2021) and the recent release, Dr.
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Boma Iluma on “The Seven Faces of Jane”

Growing up between Atlanta and Abuja, Nigeria, Boma Iluma got his first taste of the creative arts as an actor in commercials for the NBA and the Cartoon Network before segueing to plays in the local theater scene. Spreading his creative wings, Boma stepped behind the camera, where he immediately achieved recognition for his 2019 visual art piece Negus, which focused on how Blackness in America involves being actively unseen and violently misunderstood.