Getting to Know 11 LAFF Directors to Watch
by indieWIRE (June 19, 2009)
The scene at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Photo by Peter Knegt.
The following is a series of interviews with directors whose films are screening at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, which takes place June 18-28. LAFF | America Unrolling Outside: “Passenger Side” Director Matthew Bissonnette “In the spring of 2000, a friend and I drove my old Toyota Camry wagon from Los Angeles to New York City… That experience got me thinking about interior dialogues and exterior images, and I’m often thinking about brothers.” LAFF | Queer Amour in Hollywood: “Hollywood, je t’aime” Director Jason Bushman “For me, independent film is a grass-roots effort. It’s a private artistic and business endeavor, really, funded from all possible avenues and budgeted to provide the most bang for the smallest buck. “ LAFF | Exorcising Exes: “Harmony and Me” Director Bob Byington “I’d had a bad breakup and it had seemed like the girl in question had put a microchip in my head, where every experience I had was involuntarily processed through a filter that involved my still being with her. The movie was meant to be an exorcism, but it was a failure in that regard.” LAFF | Free Cruise Becomes Movie: “Wah Do Dem” Co-Director Ben Chace “I won a free Caribbean Cruise for two in a raffle a few summers ago. Sam, my co-director, had just gotten back from shooting a film in Cambodia with Bajir Cannon, and suggested we use the cruise tickets to make a film. From there we began brainstorming different storylines, and got excited about juxtaposing these three different realms which we’d both had some experience with - hipster Brooklyn, luxury cruise tourism, and street level traveling in the third world.”
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