Video Interview: Haley Elizabeth Anderson - Pillars (Short Film) - 2020 Sundance Film Festival

Video Interview: Haley Elizabeth Anderson – Pillars (Short Film) – 2020 Sundance Film Festival

Published on April 10, 2020

Nature’s wrath, individualism, a father-daughter relationship grounded in tough love and the L word are heightened and poetically rendered in Haley Elizabeth Anderson‘s Pillars – a Sundance Film Festival selected short. One of several Filmmaker Magazine Top 25 alumni personalities hitting Park City this past January, I sat down with the filmmaker to discuss how her young lead navigates her transition between childhood into adulthood in terms of visual, sound design and themes explored.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).