Interviews

As the world holds its breath watching Russia continue its assault on Ukraine, Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk talks to the Golden Globes Around the World podcast series about her gut-wrenching experience of discovering life imitating art. The up-and-coming filmmaker won Best Director in the 2020 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Category for The Earth is Blue as an Orange, following a single mother and her four children trying to live a normal life in the war zone of southern and eastern Ukraine that began eight years ago when Russia annexed Crimea.

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What is lifelike at a maternity ward from the midwives’ perspective? Everyone who has given birth might think they know, but do they really or do they just get a glimpse into an intense and demanding world where life comes to light and those who help make it happen are more or less like soldiers at war? That is at least the comparison Lone Scherfig made in her mind when she created and wrote The Shift, an eight-episode TV series, which is her first Danish-language project in 14 years. The Oscar-nominated Scherfig, who is best known for her English-speaking projects such as An Education, Their Finest, One Day and her Danish-language film Italian for Beginners from 2000, also co-directed the show and felt that the role as showrunner came quite natural to her.

Having been an actress all her life, Icelandic Anita Briem was becoming desperate. There were no stories out there about her situation.

As we approach International Women’s Day on March 8, we continue to put a spotlight on women breaking barriers and blazing trails. After celebrating Pose star Michaela Jaé Rodriguez becoming the first transgender actress to win a Golden Globe this year, we recently caught up with Filipino-American Trans actress-writer-producer Rain Valdez on our podcast series, Golden Globes Around the World.

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.

Jimmy Akingbola finds that there is a lot more work for British Black men to be found in the United States than in his native United Kingdom. In his opinion, it is hard to truly breakthrough in the UK, while in the US, there are more leading roles and characters with substance.

Long before George Clooney took our temperature in ER or Patrick Dempsey became famous as McDreamy in Grey’s Anatomy, TV and film legend Richard Chamberlain became one of TV’s biggest heartthrobs in the title role of the TV medical drama, Dr. Kildare, which ran from 1961-66.

Alex Simmons, like his character BlackJack, is one of the great unsung heroes of the black community. Simmons is an award-winning freelance writer, educator, creator of comic books, screenplays, and stage plays.

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.