London Film Festival
DN LFF2012: Father/Son – Bryan Reisberg
Screening as part of the London Film Festival’s Blood is Thicker than Water shorts programme, Bryan Reisberg’s Father/Son portrays a disquieting family dynamic played out in the company of a visiting girlfriend. Closing our LFF interviews for the year Bryan and I talk about cutting away the narrative fat until all that remains is a [...]
LFF2012: Father/Son – Bryan Reisberg
Father/Son (2012) Oliver brings his girlfriend on a hunting trip to meet his father.
DN LFF2012: Made in Ash – Iveta Grofová
Initially conceived as a documentary, Iveta Grofová’s debut feature Made in Ash uses a mix of non-professional actors and locals to depict the harsh life altering decisions made by an Eastern Slovakia girl who travels to the West Bohemian town of Aš in the hope of building a better future for herself. We chat to [...]
DN LFF2012: Clip – Maja Miloš
Inspired by online footage posted by teens of the bullying and sexual activity present in their everyday lives, Serbian director Maja Miloš’ debut feature Clip is a portrayal of teenage love blossoming within the harsh conditions of their environment. We discuss casting non-actors authentic to Clip’s subject matter and how Maja’s documentary background provided her [...]
DN LFF2012: Starlet – Sean Baker
Sean Baker’s Starlet tells the story of a burgeoning friendship between a young woman and an elderly widow after a yard sale purchase brings them together. Sean joined us at the London Film Festival to discuss challenging audience preconceptions and explaining ‘reverse cowgirl’ to your star’s representation. The larger a film gets, the more cooks [...]
DN LFF2012: Flight of the Pompadour – Karan Kandhari
The second instalment in A United Howl, Karan Kandhari’s trilogy of shorts about misfits, outsiders and loners, Flight of the Pompadour is a charming tale of a teen’s search for acceptance and the perfect hair. Karan and I got all dorky about film stocks and that all important rockabilly quiff at the London Film Festival. [...]
DN LFF2012: Short Stories – Mikhail Segal
We spoke to Russian director Mikhail Segal’s at the London Film Festival about his second feature Short Stories; a collection of four narratives each playing out a different cinematic genre within the framing of a rejected manuscript which draws consecutive readers into its tales. There is one common idea, one common thread that I wanted [...]
DN LFF2012: Punk – Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Based on Boris Bergmann’s book Viens La Que Je Te Tue Ma Belle, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s feature Punk is a portrait of the animality of a teenager trying to establish his identity from the fringes of society. Jean-Stéphane joined us for a chat about the film and his desire to experiment with cinema on the edge [...]
DN LFF2012: Good Vibrations – Glenn Leyburn & Lisa Barros D’Sa
Co-directors Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa’s second feature Good Vibrations tells the true life story of Terri Hooley Ulster’s Godfather of Punk, who provided a musical alternative to the fracturing violence of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. We caught up with Leyburn and Barros D’Sa at the London Film Festival to discuss how the pair captured [...]
DN LFF2012: Shoot Me! – Kate Hardie
Actor, turned director Kate Hardie’s film Shoot Me screened as part of the Obsessive and Compulsive shorts programme at this year’s London Film Festival and explores issues of female self-image and ageing. In a brief respite from the hubbub of the festival we spoke to Kate about using comedy as an effective camouflage for issues [...]
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