Category: Interviews
Documentary Filmmakers 2011 Interview Series #1 – Lee Demarbre, Director of Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero
Over the coming weeks, as a lead up the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto, Sound On Sight will be publishing a series of exclusive interviews with an eclectic group of documentary film makers. Mike Waldman sits down (over the … [Read the Rest]
SXSW 2011: Interview with ‘Animal Control’ Director Kire Paputts
Last week we published a preview of Animal Control, a short film playing at SXSW this March. Intrigued by this eerie, nocturnal film, I shot some questions over to the director, Toronto resident Kire Paputts. I was lucky enough to … [Read the Rest]
Slamdance 2011: Interview with Ben Brewer, Director of Beneath Contempt
As a final tribute to the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival and its nurturing of first-time, independent filmmakers, here’s one last interview. We’ve gone back and talked with the filmmakers of Beneath Contempt, whose initial January 21st interview with Sound on … [Read the Rest]
Slamdance 2011: Interview with Directors of “Stranger Things”
Slamdance Film Festival, Park City’s celebration of truly independent filmmakers, came to a close this past Thursday, January 27th. Here at Sound on Sight we’re wrapping up our interview series with 2011 Slamdance filmmakers. Today’s interview is with husband and … [Read the Rest]
Slamdance 2011: Interview with David Henry Gerson, Director of “Ultra Violet for Sixteen Minutes”
For our next Slamdance 2011 interview, we’re dipping into the documentary category with David Henry Gerson and his short doc, Ultra Violet for Sixteen Minutes. Gerson’s film first screened at Slamdance on Saturday January 22nd and will show again Tuesday … [Read the Rest]
Slamdance 2011: Interview Laurel Parmet, Director of “Pampeliška”
Slamdance 2011 is in full swing and here at Sound on Sight we’ll be interviewing filmmakers from the festival all week. Director Laurel Parmet shared with us some of her experiences in making her beautiful film, Pampeliška. The short film, … [Read the Rest]
Slamdance 2011: “Beneath Contempt” Interview
Slamdance opens tonight and will show 95 films from now through January 27th in Park City, Utah. Sound on Sight will continue to post interviews with Slamdance filmmakers throughout the festival’s duration (click here to read yesterday’s interview with the … [Read the Rest]
Slamdance 2011: Interview with “Pleasant People” Director David Bonawits
Slamdance 2011 goes live this Friday. The festival whose mantra is “by filmmakers for filmmakers” will take place at the same time as Sundance, as it does every year. Both festivals will be screening and premiering beautiful, funny, thoughtful and … [Read the Rest]
Interview: John Hawkes of ‘Winter’s Bone’
John Hawkes is one of those dependable character actors that you love to see in every film. Whether it is in Me You and Everyone We Know, American Gangster, Miami Vice or TV’s Deadwood, he is always doing interesting and … [Read the Rest]
Interview with Meghan Eckman, the Director of ‘The Parking Lot Movie’
A Parking Lot is probably not the first place one would think would make a great subject for a documentary. Then again, The Corner Parking Lot (the CPL) located in Charlottesville, Virginia has always seemed to attract a peculiar type … [Read the Rest]
Interview with Richard Dindo, Director of ‘The Marsdreamers’
Philosophers such as David Bowie have long wondered if there is Life on Mars. In recent decades however, scientific discoveries about the Red Planet have changed the debate from “Is there life?” to “when are we going?” For one eclectic … [Read the Rest]
Interview with “Marwencol” Director, Jeff Malmberg
Art as Therapy has become a sort of short-hand for pretentious vanity projects where sincerity trumps ability. In the hands of director Jeff Malmberg however, the therapeutic power of art is the starting point for a compelling and refreshing glimpse … [Read the Rest]
Interview with “Preludio” Director Eduardo Lucatero
A graduate of Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Eduardo Lucatero is a Mexican-Canadian filmmaker who has worked on a variety of television and film projects in both countries. His first feature, 2007’s Corazón Marchito, is a romantic comedy made … [Read the Rest]
Fantasia 2010: Neil Marshall Interview
Thanks to Neil Marshall’s 2005 horror film The Descent, about a group of spelunking women attacked by hideous carnivorous bat-boy monsters, my wife is now afraid of caves, Weekly World News covers, and girls’ nights out. If Marshall’s latest film … [Read the Rest]
Fantasia 2010: Interview: Christopher Smith
Don’t worry. Though director Chris Smith—who made a name for himself with tense, tightly scripted genre gems Creep, Severance, and Triangle—may be tackling lofty themes of right, wrong, and the religions in between with his new film Black Death. But … [Read the Rest]
