Camera Q&A: Jen Gatien on Limelight and her NYC films

Who: Jen Gatien is a New York-based film producer who has utilized the state for several productions over the past few years. A former resident of the Chelsea Hotel on…..

10 minutes read

September 20, 2011

Camera Q&A: Katarzyna Roslaniec on Warsaw's Mall Girls

Who: Katarzyna Roslaniec is a Poland-based filmmaker who wrote and directed 2009’s Galerianki (Mall Girls) after six months of research spent with young women in Warsaw who troll local shopping…..

18 minutes read

August 26, 2011

Joann Sfar on Serge Gainsbourg's Paris

Who: Joann Sfar is a Paris-based cartoonist and filmmaker who wrote and directed 2010’s [Serge] Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, based on his own graphic novel about the noted French musician……

20 minutes read

August 15, 2011

Camera Q&A: Penelope Spheeris on L.A. music and youth culture

Who: Penelope Spheeris is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose career as a documentarian goes back to the 1970’s, when she worked as a film editor and cinematographer, forming LA’s first…..

42 minutes read

July 28, 2011

Camera Q&A: Hampton Fancher on his L.A. film and TV career

Who: Hampton Fancher is a veteran actor, writer and director whose on-screen acting career began with appearances on popular cowboy TV shows like Have Gun – Will Travel and Gunsmoke……

54 minutes read

July 7, 2011

Norman Jewison & Friends Recall His Films

Who: Norman Jewison is a filmmaker whose movie career spanned 41 years and 24 features. Born in Canada, Jewison gained early experience working for CBC Television during the 1950’s, earning…..

13 minutes read

June 6, 2011

Camera Q&A: Djo Tunda Wa Munga on Viva Riva! and Congo

Who: Djo Tunda Wa Munga is a Congo-born filmmaker and the writer/director of the Kinshasa-set film, Viva Riva!. The film, which is the first Congolese feature since La Vie Est…..

11 minutes read

June 2, 2011

Camera Q&A: Ni'coel Stark on Film Festival: Rwanda

Who: Ni’coel Stark is the Development Producer for Film Festival: Rwanda, which documents a group of aspiring Rwandan filmmakers producing their own films, and then screening them in remote villages…..

12 minutes read

May 29, 2011

Camera Q&A: Natalia Smirnoff on filming in Buenos Aires

Who: Natalia Smirnoff is a Buenos Aires-based filmmaker whose feature film directorial debut, Puzzle opened May 27th at the IFC Center in New York City. The film follows forty-something homemaker,…..

11 minutes read

May 11, 2011

Fantasy Location Primer: Conan in Zingara (Spain)

“Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the…..

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