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Interview: Sumner Burstyn (This Way of Life)
Canadian cinematographer Thomas Burstyn makes his feature debut as a director along with his wife Sumner as his writer and producer with this lush documentary set in New Zealand's rugged Ruahine Mountains. This Way of Life is about the Karena family -- a family that would make plenty others envious.
Interview: Filmmaker Alex Stockman (Pulsar)
Preemed at Locarno, winner of the Film Critic's Award at the Hamburg Filmfest, Alex Stockman's gripping Pulsar, the Belgian filmmaker's sophomore feature taps into the terrifying phobia of technology with this thriller.
Interview: Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story)
Pat has a very wide appeal and people who admire him come from different parts of ideological spectrum. So we didn't want to alienate a part of our audience because the film is about Pat more than anything. So we wanted to invite everybody to the dialogue of what actually happened to him and the country at the time.
Interview: Samuel Maoz (Lebanon)
Words were my enemy, so it was a very tough two months preparation without a word which was to get them to experience inside the tank. So I talked about the experience then I locked them each separately in a dark containers for few hours. Instead of telling them about the claustrophobic experience, I let them experience it.
Interview: Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Micmacs)
At the beginning when we have the concept of the story. Once we know we have a revenge story, we open the book of details and see what we can use. For example the story of the sugar and coffee or the mine in the football field which I had in mind for 20 years. I have boxes of ideas and details like that. It's pre-occupation to have a rich movie. For some people it's too much and too many details.
