In Conversation With Edward Norton
Edward Norton is an actor, director, filmmaker and conservationist. Recently he was appointed as the UN envoy for biodiversity. Norton has won critical acclaim and recognition for his roles in films...
View ArticleJane Eyre’s Mia Wasikowska & Cary Fukunaga
British author Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre was first published in 1857 and since then a number of reprints of the books have been made. There have been numerous film versions of Jane Eyre, and...
View ArticleJim Kohlberg & Lou Taylor on The Music Never Stopped
The Music Never Stopped is based on a true story that was described in a essay The Last Hippie written by Dr. Oliver Sacks. The film is about a 37 yr old man Greg Sawyer (Lou Taylor Pucci), who...
View ArticleIn Conversation With Sacha Dhawan
British actor Sacha Dhawan acts as Manmeet in the NBC TV serial Outsourced, a workplace comedy series about an American company’s call center in Mumbai, India. Outsourced debuted in 2010. This is the...
View ArticleIn Conversation With Actor Rizwan Manji
Rizwan Manji’s dream growing up in Canada was to be in an American sitcom. That dream came true. After studying at American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York he moved to Los Angeles to pursue...
View ArticleIn Conversation with Director Wayne Wang
San Francisco-based Wayne Wang’s new film “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” is based on Lisa See’s novel by the same name. In this interview Wang talks about growing up in Hong Kong and California,...
View ArticleIn Conversation With Gerard Butler & Michelle Monaghan
Gerard Butler and Michelle Monaghan talk about the making of “Machine Gun Preacher.” The film is directed by Marc Forster and is based on Sam Childer’s book “Another Man’s War.’ Gerard and Michelle...
View ArticleGerard Butler on Bollywood, India & Danny Boyle
Gerard Butler talks about Bollywood, India and Danny Boyle. Many years ago, Mr. Butler auditioned for a Bollywood film, but did not land the part. That was 13 years ago. Since then he has gone on to...
View ArticleMeet Paul Debevec – Hollywood’s Master of Light
Meet Prof. Paul Debevec described as “Hollywood’s Master of Light” by MIT’s Tech Review. His pioneering work at the intersection of technology and films has won him recognition and awards. In 2010...
View ArticleWalter Murch on Technology, Editing & Filmmaking
Meet 3 time Oscar-winning editor and sound engineer Walter Murch, who talks on how technology has changed film editing and how “digital revolution has invented the equivalent of aensthetic for the...
View ArticleAcademy Winner John Knoll on Technology in Filmmaking
Academy-award winner John Knoll works behind the scenes, but you have probably seen his visual effects magic in “Avatar,” “Rango,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Hugo,” Mission Impossible,” “Star Wars”...
View ArticleEnd of Watch’s Michael Pena & Nataline Martinez
Director David Ayer of Fast and Furious fame has a new film out – End of Watch. This unusual cop film revolves Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena and their police beat in Newton, a gritty part of Los...
View ArticleAng Lee on Life Of Pi
Academy award winner Ang Lee talks about his new film Life of Pi that is based on a novel by best selling author Yann Martel. This is Lee’s first major foray into 3D filmmaking. The film traces a the...
View ArticleSacha Gervasi on Hitchcock
Director Sacha Gervasi’s debut feature film Hitchcock is an unusual film. While we know quite a lot about the “master of suspense” Hitchcock and his movie-making techniques, there is very little we...
View ArticleMathew Lillard: Fat Kid Rules The World
Meet actor turned director Mathew Lillard, who talks about his debut film Fat Kid Rules The World. Based on a best-selling novel by AL Gooing it’s a poignant and interesting coming-of-age film about...
View ArticleJohn Kahrs On Paperman, Animation & Technology
John Kahrs won an Academy award for his animated short film Paperman. This was Kahrs directorial debut and his first Oscar nomination. Paperman is a 7 minute black and white short film that combines...
View ArticleMira Nair On The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mira Nair‘s latest films is The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The picture is based on a novel by the same name by Mohsin Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an intimate portrait told with anguish and...
View ArticleZal Batmanglij: On The East
When director Zal Batmanglij’s indie film The Sound of My Voice released in 2011 it earned him and Brit Marling, his collaborator and star of the film wide acclaim. Their first film was made on a...
View ArticleHollywood’s Paul Feig on The Heat, Melissa McCarthy, Bollywood & Music
Meet Hollywood filmaker, director & author Paul Feig, who talks about his new film “The Heat,” Melissa McCarthy, Marx Brothers, Blake Edwards, Bollywood and being an Anglophile. And oh! music is an...
View ArticleNicole Holofcener On Her New Film – Enough Said
Film director and writer Nicole Holofcener has a new film out Enough Said that releases this month. We met with the talented and funny Holofcener in San Francisco to talk about the making of her film...
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