Extra: Catherine Epstein talks with Fort Bliss producer and cinematographer Adam Silver
Fort Bliss follows a single mother trying to reconnect with her son following her 15-month deployment in Iraq as a…
Interviews
Extra: An Interview with cast members from I Dream Too Much – Eden Brolin and Danielle Brooks
The Independent seeks out the collaborators, mentors, colleagues, and friends of our 10 to Watch filmmakers in order to hear more about how they inspire others working in independent film. Steven Abrams talks with Eden Brolin and Danielle Brooks about what they learned from working with 10 to Watch’s Katie Cokinos.
Filmmakers and their Global Lens: Joshua Oppenheimer
Joshua Oppenheimer’s latest film, The Look of Silence, is a companion piece to the critically acclaimed, and hotly debated, The Act of Killing. The Independent‘s staff writer Dana Knight spoke with Oppenheimer at SXSW, where he commented on how Americans misinterpret cinéma vérité. “It’s actually precisely because of the camera not despite it…that certain things are happening,” he said.
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
“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.
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Jonathon Narducci
Jonathon Narducci tries to blow up perfect ideas of love in his documentary, Love Me, about men and women whose matches are made the old-fashioned way, by mail order. Dana Knight asks how he reached his conclusions about how and when love succeeds.
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Mary Dore
Dana Knight and Mary Dore talk about the origins of women’s liberation and Dore’s documentary about the era, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, nearly two decades in the making.
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Dan Halstead
Dana Knight and Dan Halstead “talk-shop” about the state of the film market, making it as a writer and what the…
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Eugene Jarecki
Dana Knight and documentarian Eugene Jarecki talk about the cliches of being rich and poor, holding two conflicting ideas in your mind at the same time, and the feasibility of democracy, among other topics, while attending The International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.