Interviews

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

7494 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 26/04/2024. 578 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Antonio Russo Merenda  • Documentary film commissioner, Swedish Film Institute

"A very prominent position in the international arena"

Antonio Russo Merenda • Documentary film commissioner, Swedish Film Institute

Cineuropa talked to Antonio Russo Merenda, documentary film commissioner at the SFI, whose production funding for documentaries has been doubled to 30...  

04/03/2015

Simon Jaquemet  • Director

“Violence is the last taboo”

Simon Jaquemet • Director

Cineuropa met up with Swiss film director Simon Jaquemet, who stunned and fascinated audiences with his first feature, War, a movie about rage, desire and...  

04/03/2015

Nick Fortugno  • Co-founding chief creative officer, Playmatics

"Looking at games as extensions is missing the point"

Nick Fortugno • Co-founding chief creative officer, Playmatics

Games designer and co-founding chief creative officer of Brooklyn-based Playmatics Nick Fortugno talks about the power of a transmedial approach to storytelling  

04/03/2015

Yngvild Sve Flikke  • Director

"Falling, in love or not, to emerge stronger"

Yngvild Sve Flikke • Director

Cineuropa met the Norwegian director Yngvild Sve Flikke, who has just screened her first feature film Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts  

03/03/2015

Marc Vandeweyer  • Chief executive of Cartoon Movie

"There is an extraordinary degree of diversity"

Marc Vandeweyer • Chief executive of Cartoon Movie

Marc Vandeweyer, chief executive of Cartoon Movie, unveils the trends of the 17th edition  

02/03/2015

Signe Baumane  • Director

“The reason I make films is to communicate with people”

Signe Baumane • Director

Cineuropa spoke with Latvian animator Signe Baumane, who recently screened her first feature film, Rocks in my Pockets, at Brussels’ Anima Festival  

26/02/2015

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani  • Directors

Surviving the plague with Maraviglioso Boccaccio

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani • Directors

After Caesar Must Die Tuscan directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani stage the Florentine novellas with a fantastic cast full of young actors  

26/02/2015

Tudor Giurgiu  • Director

"A narrative structure that was powerful and real"

Tudor Giurgiu • Director

Third-time director Tudor Giurgiu presents Why Me?, a film that points the finger at the systemic corruption in 2002 Romania  

25/02/2015

Jan-Willem van Ewijk  • Director

“When I shoot, I look for real things”

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director

Cineuropa caught up with Jan-Willem van Ewijk ahead of the Dutch release of his second feature, Atlantic.  

24/02/2015

Borys Lankosz  • Director

"Bringing forth our demons into the light to break free from them"

Borys Lankosz • Director

Polish director Borys Lankosz deciphers A Grain of Truth and the secret power of genre cinema in changing mentalities  

20/02/2015

Veronika Lišková  • Director

“This was a great lesson in tolerance for me”

Veronika Lišková • Director

Cineuropa talked to Veronika Lišková, the director of Daniel's World, about her documentary, on the occasion of its screening at the Berlinale  

18/02/2015

Truls Kontny  • President, European Film Commissions Network

“Scandinavia and Norway are really hot at the moment”

Truls Kontny • President, European Film Commissions Network

Cineuropa chatted to Truls Kontny, president of the European Film Commissions Network, to discover more about the EUFCN’s role  

18/02/2015

Paolo Damilano • President, Film Commission Torino Piemonte

"Film producers need to know that they can count on our economic support"

Paolo Damilano • President, Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Entrepreneur Paolo Damilano, president of the Film Commission Torino Piemonte and the Museum of Cinema maps out Piedmont’s new audiovisual strategies  

17/02/2015

Lindsay Peters  • Market and industry director, Frontières Market

"Genre has a passionate, devoted audience and a passionate, devoted generation of filmmakers"

Lindsay Peters • Market and industry director, Frontières Market

Cineuropa sat down with Lindsay Peters, market and industry director of the Frontières Market, to discuss the recent evolutions in genre films  

17/02/2015

Günther Oettinger  • Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

“The starting point is the digital revolution”

Günther Oettinger • Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

BERLIN 2015: The Berlinale served as the perfect venue for Günther Oettinger, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, to discuss copyright reform and...  

13/02/2015

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