Interviews

After making a name for himself in his native France - particularly with his collaborations with action director Luc Besson, including Le Femme Nikita (1991) and Léon: The Professional (1994) - actor Jean Reno then crossed the Atlantic to become a sought-after character actor in big budget Hollywood films including Mission: Impossible (1996),  Ronin (1998), The Pink Panther (2006), The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Da Five Bloods (2020). The 73-year-old national treasure shows no signs of slowing down, he tells press at the recent Monte Carlo TV Festival, where he admits almost with embarrassment, that he has three TV shows about to launch.

Based on the best-selling novel by Jack Carr, the Amazon series The Terminal List – released in 240 countries on July 1 - follows James Reece (Chris Pratt), a Navy SEAL who was the sole survivor of an ambush on his regiment during an important covert mission. When he returns home, he begins to question his own memories of the event and finds new evidence that suggests a mystery organization is working against him.

Iranian actress Zahar Amir-Ebrahimi had to flee Iran in 2006 because of a leaked tape with private content of a sexual nature on it. Not only was she humiliated and harassed, she was also facing a prison sentence and 100 lashes for her ‘crime’.

When Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont won the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard prize for his trans-female ballet dancer film debut, Girl, he couldn’t have imagined four years later he would be back – not just showing his second film, Close, but taking home the Grand Prize. “When I heard that the Cannes film festival wanted to put this film in competition among many directors that I deeply admire, like Kelly Reichardt, Claire Denis, and David Cronenberg, I was in an Airbnb in Amsterdam and I jumped around for 25 minutes straight and then called my mother and shouted into the phone!” the writer-director told fellow Belgian colleague, HFPA member Greet Ramaekers, in our “Golden Globes Around the World” podcast.

The film opens with a simple shot of the sky. Although the image is in black and white, it’s clear that we’re looking at a blue mid-summer day.

Producer Daniel Marc Dreifuss is very busy. Right now he is in Northern Africa in preparation for a new project.

OUTFEST was established in 1982 in Los Angeles as the first and only global LGBTQIA+ arts, media, and entertainment organization to support artists, communities, and filmmakers to change the world through their stories. Every year, the non-profit organization hosts over 300 screenings and panels, and six programs and engages with over 50,000 attendees.

Frances “Franco” Stevens is the founder of the iconic lesbian Curve Magazine, which was launched in 1991 as Deneuve. As a broke young woman, who had been rejected by her family, when she came out as a lesbian and had briefly been homeless, Stevens did not take no for an answer when investors did not believe in her vision.