Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Alex Holdridge & Linnea Saasen
For this edition of Filmmakers and Their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight speaks with co-creators about collaboration, acting…
Interviews
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Matthu Placek
For this edition of Filmmakers and Their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight speaks with the artist Matthu Placek…
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Kate Chevigny & Ross Kauffman
For this edition of Filmmakers and Their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight speaks with the filmmaking duo behind…
RIDM ’14: The Use and Abuse of Poetry in Documentary Film
Gusts of bitingly cold wind eat away at the inch of precocious snow on the ground, offering a fittingly bracing…
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Hal Hartley
In the second edition of our new series, Filmmakers and Their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight speaks with the…
Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Eugene Green
In this first edition of our new series, Filmmakers and their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight interviews…
FNC 2014: Hybrid Filmmakers find Common Ground
Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema (FNC) is a festival that doesn’t like to be put into neat and tidy boxes….
Inspired by Personal History, Hong Khaou Releases “Lilting” to US Audiences
In Hong Khaou’s Lilting, available on DVD and VOD September 29th, a mother grieves for her son by getting to know her son’s partner. Khaou told The Independent his debut feature came, “from a place that’s deeply personal, especially that of grief. I lost my dad when I was 12 and the character in the film loses her son. So I had to expose myself in a certain way writing this.”
TIFF 2014: Safdie Bros Borrow From Life on NY Streets in “Heaven Knows What”
Heroin addiction and life on the New York streets take center stage in Josh and Benny Safdie’s latest, Heaven Knows What. The morning after their North American premiere at TIFF, they riff on the why and what of it all with the film’s star and inspirational scribe, Arielle Holmes.