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License to Ill: 2015 Marrakech Int. Film Fest Snapshot Capsule Day 5

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Curiously it got picked up not that much time after my sit down with him, I was pleased to finally meet up with burgeoning Canadian filmmaker talent Stephen Dunn who just earlier this year landed in Sundance with a trio of Pop-Up Porno shorts and who wowed at the Toronto Int. Film Festival in September with his directorial debut, which was selected as a competing film in Marrakech. I took the opportunity to speak to the supporting players of Closest Monster in veteran actor Aaron Abrams and up-and-comer Aliocha Schneider. We spoke about their respective characters and rapport to principle player played by Connor Jessup and their respective careers. Interviews with all three coming soon.

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It was at the overly long, not many referenced clipped but no less insightful conversational Masterclass for Park Chan-wook where the festival bug made its presence known – the one that wrecks havoc on your digestive system, that makes you nauseated by the mere mention of food and it is one that prevents you from showing up for roundtable interviews with the likes of Chan-wook and Abbas Kiarostami and where we get full updates on where they’re at with their future projects. Variety got the latest updates on the Iranian and the South Korean filmmaker.

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).

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