Interviews

Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.

7477 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 28/03/2024. 581 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Annette Brejner, Lennart Ström  • Heads, m:brane

“You will not see any pictures of cute, smiling children with balloons at m:brane”

Annette Brejner, Lennart Ström • Heads, m:brane

The managerial and creative helmers of Malmö’s youth content forum tell us more about the mission they have been on since day one  

13/03/2024 | M:brane 2024

Ed Owles  • Producer, Postcode Films

“It’s important to think creatively about how you can reach specific audiences”

Ed Owles • Producer, Postcode Films

The British producer tells us he started working in the documentary world to find a bridge between creativity and social advocacy  

13/03/2024 | Emerging Producers 2024

Cristina Haneș  • Producer, NoCut Film Collective and deFilm

“The pressure to achieve measurable impact can distort filmmaking”

Cristina Haneș • Producer, NoCut Film Collective and deFilm

The Romanian producer tackles the way films shape perspectives and how she tries to maintain a productive and fulfilling work-life balance  

13/03/2024 | Emerging Producers 2024

Sylvia Rothe  • Chair of AI in media production, HFF University of Television and Film Munich

“AI will do simple, trivial things, but it can't create emotionally moving works – it needs artists for that”

Sylvia Rothe • Chair of AI in media production, HFF University of Television and Film Munich

The artificial intelligence expert tells us more about a series of tools that should prove very useful for film productions in the near future  

13/03/2024 | Incontri 2024

Isabella Karhu  • Producer, Danish Bear Productions

“Documentaries are like Plato's Analogy of the Sun"

Isabella Karhu • Producer, Danish Bear Productions

The Finnish producer discusses how documentaries shine their light on us and the projects she has in the pipeline  

13/03/2024 | Emerging Producers 2024

Tonje Skar Reiersen • Producer of Pesta

“With this film, we want to show that mankind has already gone through dramatic changes in the past”

Tonje Skar Reiersen • Producer of Pesta

One of the producers of the animated project in receipt of the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at this year’s Cartoon Movie tells us more about...  

12/03/2024 | Cartoon 2024 | Cartoon Movie

Mara Gourd-Mercado • Head of industry, CPH:DOX

"The documentary industry needs renewal"

Mara Gourd-Mercado • Head of industry, CPH:DOX

The new head of industry zooms in on how to find the right balance of projects in CPH:FORUM, and addresses topics such as the independence of filmmakers and...  

12/03/2024 | CPH:DOX 2024 | CPH:DOX Industry

Fabrizio Maltese  • Producer, Joli Rideau Media

"Wellbeing is one of the most important investments one can make"

Fabrizio Maltese • Producer, Joli Rideau Media

The photographer and film director and producer discusses his approach to documentary and artistic creation  

12/03/2024 | Emerging Producers 2024

Ewa Wikieł • Director of Krzyk – Losing Control

“It was fascinating to immerse ourselves in the world of scientists, which is so different from the everyday life of filmmakers”

Ewa Wikieł • Director of Krzyk – Losing Control

The German-Polish director talks about the making of her nightmarish debut feature  

12/03/2024 | SXSW 2024

Viggo Mortensen • Director of The Dead Don’t Hurt

“I wanted to make a film that was like the best classic westerns: shot in a way that seems simple, but isn’t, really”

Viggo Mortensen • Director of The Dead Don’t Hurt

The Danish-American actor-director discusses his western, starring Vicky Krieps as an independent woman in 1860s Nevada  

12/03/2024 | Luxembourg 2024

Marek Kozakiewicz • Director of We Are Perfect

“What surprised me was the openness and maturity that these young people had when they were talking about themselves”

Marek Kozakiewicz • Director of We Are Perfect

The helmer breaks down his tender and honest film about young people who know who they are, yet struggle to feel accepted by their families and the world  

11/03/2024 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2024

Niklas Engstrøm • Artistic director, CPH:DOX

“Our aim is to examine the body through the lens of its many complex issues”

Niklas Engstrøm • Artistic director, CPH:DOX

The artistic director explains the selection of “Body Politics” as a theme through which to explore societal norms and discusses the internationalisation of...  

11/03/2024 | CPH:DOX 2024

Andrea Jaurrieta • Director of Nina

"Women are expected to direct small, intimate films"

Andrea Jaurrieta • Director of Nina

The Spanish filmmaker presents her second film, a modern revenge western starring Patricia López Arnaiz and peppered with film references  

08/03/2024 | Malaga 2024

Laila Alonso Huarte and Laura Longobardi • Co-Directors, FIFDH

"This festival is a collective project"

Laila Alonso Huarte and Laura Longobardi • Co-Directors, FIFDH

The new co-directors of the Genevan festival take us behind the scenes of their first year heading up the event  

07/03/2024 | FIFDH Geneva 2024

Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer, Cordula Kablitz-Post  • Directors and screenwriter of Teaches of Peaches

"This film is bigger than a portrait of a single person – it stands for a world view, a movement"

Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer, Cordula Kablitz-Post • Directors and screenwriter of Teaches of Peaches

BERLINALE 2024: The filmmakers discuss their portrait of singer Peaches, who has always tackled issues of sexual and gender and identity, leaving an...  

07/03/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

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