Female Directors

All-Female Production Company Offers Tips for Emerging Filmmakers
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All-Female Production Company Offers Tips for Emerging Filmmakers

Gloria Muñoz of Pitch Her Productions shares industry tips for emerging female filmmakers. Muñoz and her production company has just released Keep Me Posted, a comedic web series written and directed by Hillary Nussbaum. The series, which stars Maya Deshmukh, Terra Mackintosh, and Kim Blanck offers an unforgiving look at social media, notably the complexities of balancing online personas with authentic, real-world intimacy.

Agnès Varda Reflects on “Jane B. by Agnès V.” and “Kung-Fu Master!”

Agnès Varda Reflects on “Jane B. by Agnès V.” and “Kung-Fu Master!”

Upon the digital restoration and US release of Jane B. by Agnès V. and Kung-Fu Master! the ever-iconic Agnès Varda tells The Independent: “A lot of people love my films but I don’t know if they are commercial. That’s why I always say, ‘I don’t have a career, I just made films.’ I am marginal and I am happy to be marginal because I’m very well known in these marginal circles of cinephiles.”

NYFF 2015: Yorgos Pirpassopoulos Talks “Chevalier”

NYFF 2015: Yorgos Pirpassopoulos Talks “Chevalier”

“The whole process from rehearsing to shooting was really fascinating, enjoyable, challenging and difficult,” Chevalier actor, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, told The Independent at NYFF 2015. They rehearsed on location and brought their own ideas on character and improvisation. “I had a feeling that everything could change at any moment and that added a lot to film,” he said.

Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Ondi Timoner

Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Ondi Timoner

“Oh, he was frustrated with me and I was frustrated with him through the process of making this film, but I’m a fan of the man,” says Ondi Timoner to The Independent’s Dana Knight. The pair talks shop about filming Russell Brand for Brand: The Second Coming, which premiered at SXSW 2015.

Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Sanna Lenken
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Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Sanna Lenken

“I didn’t want her to be just a girl looking. She had to drive herself…” says director Sanna Lenken about My Skinny Sister. The story is in the POV of a young girl whose sister has an eating disorder. Lenken talks with Dana Knight about how she adapted events from her life into her first feature-length fiction film.