Photo by Eugene Hernandez (October 6, 2006)
"If you are the editor, why are you taking the pictures," teased Phillip Noyce when I asked him to pose for an iPOP shot after we'd been chatting for a bit the other day. "Shouldn't you have a photograher?" Smiling behind the camera, I explained that at indieWIRE everyone does everything (we are low-budget, just like many of the films we tend to write about). "We aren't a big budget Hollywood trade paper," I reminded him...An indieWIRE reader himself, Noyce shared some insights on other internet film sites and chatted about a few of his new film projects, while we spoke near the end of a pleasant afternoon reception in New York City. The occasion for the intimate
Focus Features gathering, at Sarabeth's Kitchen on Central Park South, is Noyce's upcoming "
Catch a Fire." The director is pictured here with the equally engaging (and relaxed) writer of the film
Shawn Slovo, who enjoyed a few lighthearted moments and talked about the many years leading up to the making of the new film. The daughter of white South African anti-apartheid activists
Joe Slovo and
Ruth First, Shawn Slovo's own life story is at the heart of the film, "A World Apart," which she also wrote.