Tag: U.S. Indie Film Interview
Interview: Kobi Libii – The American Society of Magical Negroes | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Kobi Libii who brought The American Society of Magical...
Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Once again placing his player(s) through the ringer, Alistair Banks Griffin moves from outdoorsy existentialism and moral quicksand in (2011's Two Gates of Sleep)...
Interview: Marnie Ellen Hertzler – Crestone | 2018 US in Progress – American Film Festival in Wrocław
Currently making the rounds with her Locarno/Rotterdam selected short Hi I Need To Be Loved, Baltimorean video artist/filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler will likely be...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Emma Forrest’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Emma Forrest – Untogether
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging creator from the world of cinema. This month, we feature journalist, novelist, screenwriter turned...
Interview: Emma Forrest – Untogether
Emma Forrest has been a writer all of her life. Now, she’s a director too. The British-American journalist, novelist and screenwriter, debuted her first...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #15. Paul Harrill – Light From Light
Filmmaker Paul Harrill from Light From Light is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #14. Tayarisha Poe – Selah and the Spades
Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe from Selah and the Spades is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #16. Ashley Connor – The Death of Dick Long
Cinematographer Ashley Connor from The Death of Dick Long is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #12. Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
Filmmaker Alistair Banks Griffin from The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #13. Kaet McAnneny – The Wolf Hour
Production Designer Kaet McAnneny from Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #4. Rashaad Ernesto Green – Premature
Filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #5. Zora Howard – Premature
Co-writer and actress Zora Howard from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #6. Joshua Boone – Premature
Actor Joshua Boone from Rashaad Ernesto Green's Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #2. Danielle Macdonald – Paradise Hills
Actress Danielle Macdonald from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #3. Núria Valls – Paradise Hills
Producer Núria Valls from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #9. Anna Margaret Hollyman – Sister Aimee
Actress Anna Margaret Hollyman from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #8. Marie Schlingmann – Sister Aimee
Filmmaker Marie Schlingmann from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #7. Samantha Buck – Sister Aimee
Filmmaker Samantha Buck from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #10. Rhys Ernst – Adam
Director Rhys Ernst from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #11. Leo Sheng – Adam
Actor Leo Sheng from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #17. George Rush – Give Me Liberty
Producer George Rush from Give Me Liberty is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
Interview: Sebastián Silva – TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Over the past nine years, writer/director Sebastián Silva has completed his checklist, by premiering a film in all five categories of the Sundance narrative feature...
Interview: Christopher Abbott | Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Christopher Abbott is an actor known for his roles as Charlie Cattalo in Girls and as the titular character in the critically-acclaimed James White...
Interview: Jason Mitchell – Sebastián Silva’s TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Jason Mitchell first caught the mainstream eye in 2015 for his critically-acclaimed performance as an ill-fated rapper Eazy-E in the NWA biopic Straight Outta...
Interview: Jake Wasserman – TYREL & Piercing | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
It's an association, friendship and creative partnership that began with Nicolas Pesce, that was nurtured by the Borderline Films' Josh Mond, Antonio Campos and...
Interviews: Phillip Ettinger & Max Born + World Preem of Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Along with actors Christopher Abbott (watch the interview) and Jason Mitchell (watch that interview), just prior to the world premiere at the Library Center...
Video Interview: Elizabeth Chomko – What They Had
Compassionate, introspective and quietly in your face, What They Had makes a case for coming to terms....on your own terms. Films where the focal...
Interview: Jim Cummings – Thunder Road
He first came to our attention as one of the producers on Patrick Wang's The Grief of Others and Trey Edward Shults' Krisha, but...
Interview: Eva Vives – All About Nina
We sat down with first-time writer/director Eva Vives to discuss her Tribeca 2018 hit: the provocative love story All About Nina (interview below). Vives...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Eva Vives (All About Nina)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This past April at the Tribeca Film Festival, Eva...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Eva Vives’ Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
Interview: Josephine Decker – Madeline’s Madeline
Artistic ambition, hierarchy within matriarchy, heightened psychosis and hormonal pushback act as a sort of microfibre in a dramedy about the individual being a product...
Interview: Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Emily Skeggs & Melanie Ehrlich – The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post—Desiree Akhvan’s tender tale set in a gay conversion therapy camp—took home the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance ’18. The...
Interview: Desiree Akhavan & Emily M. Danforth – The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Director Desiree Akhavan’s tender and funny second feature The Miseducation of Cameron Post won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance ’18. Based on Emily...
Interview: Paul Schrader & Cedric Kyles – First Reformed
A pastiche of Diary of a Country Priest and Winter Light, Paul Schrader latest film, First Reformed (read our ★★★★ review), follows the plot structure that made...
Interview: Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Hyphenate Bo Burnham is one of the rare comedians who can do just about anything he sets his mind to. In a dozen years...
Interview: Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Writer/Director Boots Riley is no stranger to pushing boundaries. A longtime political activist-rapper, he has already made his bones in music, founding the renowned...
Interview: Omari Hardwick – Sorry to Bother You
Among the cast of misfit supporting characters in Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You we find Omari Hardwick's take on true corporate ladder machiavellianism...
Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You | 2018 Sundance Film Festival World Premiere
Perhaps the most hyped film to premiere at this year's Sundance film festival, the over-sold world preem screening at the Library had plenty of...
Interview: Damsel’s Chris Ohlson & Mia Wasikowska | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A creative collaboration that was cemented on the Zellner Bros.' previous film, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (check out our trading card profile) which premiered...
Interview: Christina Choe – Nancy
We often relate the notion of identity with DNA, our given name as spelled out on an envelope, the social media account profile we...
Interview: Jennifer Fox – The Tale
Previously known for documentaries Beirut: The Last Home Movie (1987) and My Reincarnation (2011), producer and cinematographer Jennifer Fox just entered the narrative sphere....
Interview: Paul Lieberstein – Song Of Back And Neck
Paul Lieberstein — perhaps better known as Toby Flenderson from NBC’s The Office—made his feature film debut at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with...
Interview: Sam Boyd – In A Relationship
An expansion of his 2015 short film starring Dakota Johnson that went viral due to some fortuitous timing, Sam Boyd's In A Relationship (which just had...
Interview: Tony Gilroy & Jon Hamm – Brad Anderson’s Beirut | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Foreign diplomacy thriller Beirut might have been an unusual, counter-programming choice made by Sundance programmers, but it was the right project match and three person...
Interview: Suzanne Andrews Correa – The Huntress | 2018 January Screenwriters Lab
Selected as one of the participants for the 2018 January Screenwriters Lab, Columbia University grad Suzanne Andrews Correa is looking to set The Huntress, her feature...
Interview: Rachel Wolther & Alex H. Fischer – Nobody Nothing Nowhere | 2018 January Screenwriters Lab
Hopefully co-writer/co-director tandem Rachel Wolther (who produced micro indie gems See You Next Tuesday, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, and Stinking Heaven) & Alex H. Fischer...
Interview: C. Wrenn Ball – Katie Wright | 2018 January Screenwriters Lab
Last January I sat down with USC grad C. Wrenn Ball and his debut project which comes with some definite hype as it received...
Interview: Jonathan Minard & Scott Rashap – Archive | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
If the names of Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap ring a bell, it may be due to their breakout Toru - also known as the...
