April 30, 2008
TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "Old Man Bebo" Director Carlos Carcas and "Donkey in Lahore" Director Faramarz K-Rahber
by indieWIRE (April 30, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Carlos Carcas' "
Old Man Bebo and
Faramarz K-Rahber's "
Donkey in Lahore" are both screening in the World Documentary Competition at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival. "Bebo," a Spanish doc, follows the career of legendary musician
Bebo Baldes, a key figure in the development of mambo. "Donkey," from Australia, details couple Brian and Amber, who are tested when Brian has to convert to Islam to marry Amber. Both directors talked to indieWIRE about their films and their expectations for Tribeca.
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April 29, 2008
TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "Baghdad High" Co-Directors Ivan O'Mahoney and Laura Winter
by indieWIRE (April 29, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Ivan O'Mahoney and
Laura Winter's "
Baghdad High" follows the lives of ordinary Iraqis during the war. Screening in the World Documentary Competition at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival, O'Mahoney and Winter gave four Iraqi high school seniors a digital camera to record a year in the lives. The result is a film that shows how remarkably similar these teenagers' lives are compared to those in the Western world. indieWIRE talked to both filmmakers about the film and their expectations for its North American Premiere at Tribeca.
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TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "57,000 Kilometers Between Us" Director Delphine Kreuter
by indieWIRE (April 29, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Screening in the World Narrative Competition at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival, director
Delphine Kreuter makes her feature film debut with "
57,000 Kilometers Between Us." Kreuter, a photographer and video artist, takes on the idea of connecting in today's world by following one dysfunctional family. Kreuter talked to indieWIRE about the film and her hopes for its North American premiere at Tribeca.
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TRIBECA PROFILE | "My Winnipeg" Director Guy Maddin
by Peter Knegt (April 29, 2008)
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg" is screening at the 7th Tribeca Film Festival, currently underway. IFC First Take will release the film in theaters beginning in June in the U.S.]
"I was going in the direction that all indie directors go," said filmmaker
Guy Maddin, reflecting on his career. "It was fun to do a U-turn and go in the opposite direction. Ironically, if I go to Hollywood, I'd be happier going this way. I'll get there on my own strengths, if I get there at all." Maddin, talking to a moderator
Dennis Lim in front of a crowd that gathered at the Apple Store SoHo Sunday night (co-hosted with
indieWIRE), is referring to the primitive nature of his recent films, most particularly "
My Winnipeg," which is making its U.S. debut at the
Tribeca Film Festival this week.
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April 28, 2008
TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "Trucker" Director James Mottern
by indieWIRE (April 28, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Screening in the World Narrative Competition at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival,
John Mottern makes his feature directorial debut with "
Trucker." The film follows Diane Ford (
Michelle Monaghan), a truck driver with a tendency for bar benders and one-night stands. That changes when her estranged 11-year old son shows up at her door when her ex-husband (
Benjamin Bratt) is hospitalized. Mottern, who previously wrote and directed documentaries for
BBC and
Discovery, talked to indieWIRE about the film and his expectations for its world premiere at Tribeca.
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April 26, 2008
TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "My Marlon and Brando" Director Huseyin Karabey
by indieWIRE (April 26, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Huseyin Karabey's "
My Marlon and Brando retells the true story of Turkish actress
Ayca Damgaci, who heads to Baghdad in search of her husband (her "marlon and brando"), Kurdish actor
Hama Ali Khan. Damgaci co-wrote the script with Karabey and stars as herself i the film, which also features Khan's actual love letter videos he sent to Damgaci. indieWIRE talked to Karabey about the film, which is screening in the World Narrative Competition at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival.
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TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "Newcastle" Director Dan Castle
by indieWIRE (April 26, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Screening in the World Narrative Competition at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival,
Dan Castle makes his directorial debut with "
Newcastle." Previously helming a number of award-winning short films, Castle tells the story of three Australian brothers, each struggling to find a role in a world centered around surfing culture. indieWIRE talked to Castle about the film and its world premiere at Tribeca.
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April 25, 2008
TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "War, Love, God & Madness" Director Mohamed Al-Daradji
by indieWIRE (April 25, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Four years ago, Baghdad-born
Mohamed Al-Daradjireturned how after
Saddam Hussein was overthrown, and directed the award-winning narrative feature "
Ahlaam." The experience of shooting in the film was so challenging that Al-Daradji made a documentary about it. The result, "
War, Love, God & Madness," is screening in the World Documentary Feature Competition at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival. Al-Daradji talked to indieWIRE about the film, and his hopes for the festival.
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April 24, 2008
TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "Guest of Cindy Sherman" Directors Paul H-O and Tom Donahue
by indieWIRE (April 24, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Screening in the World Documentary Feature Competition, "
Guest of Cindy Sherman" is a series of interviews between
Paul H-O and press-shy artist
Cindy Sherman that began in the early 1990s. During the interviews, H-O, a fixture in the New York art scene, attains not only gains unique access to Sherman's artistic process, but also develops a romantic attachment to her. Filmed over 15 years, H-O and co-director
Tom Donahue have turned in the sessions into a film, adding interviews with a wide array of personalities (including
John Waters,
Carol Kane and
Danny deVito). Both directors talked to indieWIRE about their experience and the film's screening at Tribeca.
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TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "Pray The Devil Back To Hell" Director Gini Reticker
by indieWIRE (April 24, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Screening in the World Documentary Feature Competition at the
Tribeca Film Festival,
Gini Reticker's "
Pray The Devil Back To Hell" tells the often overlooked story of how thousands of women in Liberia helped end a horrific civil war. Under the dictatorship of
Charles Taylor, hundreds of thousands of citizens were being raped, murdered and terrorized. The women of Liberia used nonviolent and peaceful protest, culminating in the election of
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state. indieWIRE talked to Reticker about the film and its screening at Tribeca.
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April 23, 2008
TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "Kassim The Dream" Director Kief Davidson
by indieWIRE (April 23, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
American director
Kief Davidson's
Tribeca Film Festival world documentary competition film "
Kassim the Dream" is the story of world champion boxer Kassim "The Dream" Ouma. Born in Uganda and kidnapped at the age of six to be a child story, Kassim was forced to commit horrific atrocities. He also discovered the army's boxing team and realized it could be his way to freedom. After living with 12 years of war, he defected to the United States and quickly rose through the boxing ranks and became junior middleweight champion of the world...
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TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "Milosevic on Trial" Director Michael Christofersen
by indieWIRE (April 23, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Director
Michael Christoffersen's doc competition film "
Milosevic on Trial" is based on 2000 hours of tape from court proceedings pf tje four year-long trial of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic before the international tribunal in the Hague. The former leader is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by an international court and the case itself proved dramatic when Milosevic himself refused to be represented by counsel, and then later died in prison shortly before the conclusion of the trial. Incorporating interviews with people involved in the case, including prosecutor Geoffrey Nice and Milosevic lawyer Dragoslav Ognjanovic, the film presents the case and its controversy in full detail.
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April 22, 2008
TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "An Omar Broadway Film" Co-Director Douglas Tirola
by indieWIRE (April 22, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Screening in the World Documentary Feature Competition, first-time director
Omar Broadway collaborated with director
Douglas Tirola on the "outside" to create "
An Omar Broadway Film." The film documents Broadway's life as an inmate inside Newark's high-security Northern State Prison. Broadway had secretly got a hold of a video camera in 2004 and began to film his experiences, before joining forces with Tirola to bring the footage into a film. indieWIRE spoke to Tirola about his experiences and hopes for its screening at Tribeca.
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TRIBECA '08 INTERVIEW | "My Life Inside" Director Lucia Gaja
by indieWIRE (April 22, 2008)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling directors who have films screening at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Screening in the World Documentary Feature Competition, director
Lucia Gaja's "
My Life Inside" chronicles the journey of 17 year old
Rosa Jimenez. Rosa immigrated to the United States from Mexico as a teenager, finding work and a husband in Texas. But tragedy struck when an incident involving a two year-old boy Rosa was babysitting resulted in her incarceration in a Texas prison. For murder. indieWIRE talked to Gaja about the film and her expectations for its screening at Tribeca.
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April 3, 2008
ND/NF '08 INTERVIEW | "Falling From Earth" Director Chadi Zenneddine
by indieWIRE (April 3, 2008)
In the sixth installment of short interviews spotlighting emerging filmmakers in the current series
New Directors/New Films,
indieWIRE received remarks from "
Falling From Earth" director
Chadi Zenneddine, about his film that details four lonely people in 1958 Beirut. The films is screening in ND/NF, co-hosted by the
Film Society of Lincoln Center and the
Museum of Modern Art through April 6 in New York.
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April 2, 2008
ND/NF '08 INTERVIEW | "Valse Sentimentale" Director Constantina Voulgaris and "XXY" Director Lucia Puenzo
by indieWIRE (April 2, 2008)
In the fifth installment of short interviews spotlighting emerging filmmakers in the current series
New Directors/New Films,
indieWIRE received remarks from "
Valse Sentimentale" director
Constantina Voulgaris, about her film that focuses on a summer of love in Athens as well as
Lucia Puenzo's film about an intersex adolescent, "
XXY." Both films are screening in ND/NF, co-hosted by the
Film Society of Lincoln Center and the
Museum of Modern Art through April 6 in New York.
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April 1, 2008
ND/NF '08 INTERVIEW | "Slingshot Hip Hop" Director Jackie Reem Salloum and "Water Lilies" Director Celina Sciamma
by indieWIRE (April 1, 2008)
In the fourth installment of short interviews spotlighting emerging filmmakers in the current series
New Directors/New Films,
indieWIRE received remarks from "
Slingshot Hip Hop" director
Jackie Reem Salloum about her film which focuses on the universality of hip hop as well as
Celina Sciamma's film on teenage girls, "
Water Lilies." Both films are screening in ND/NF, co-hosted by the
Film Society of Lincoln Center and the
Museum of Modern Art through April 6 in New York.
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March 31, 2008
ND/NF '08 INTERVIEW | "Soul Carriage" Director Conrad Clark and "Japan Japan" Director Lior Shamriz
by indieWIRE (March 31, 2008)
In the third installment of short interviews spotlighting emerging filmmakers in the current series
New Directors/New Films, indieWIRE received remarks from "
Soul Carriage" director
Conrad Clark on his story of urbanization set against the backdrop of an evolving China as well as "
Japan Japan" director
Lior Shamriz on his film about a boy adrift. Both films are screening in ND/NF, co-hosted by the
Film Society of Lincoln Center and the
Museum of Modern Art through April 6 in New York.
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March 28, 2008
ND/NF '08 INTERVIEW | "Wonderful Town" Director Aditya Assarat and "The Toe Tactic Director Emily Hubley
by indieWIRE (March 28, 2008)
In the second round of interviews spotlighting emerging filmmakers being spotlighted in the
New Directors/New Films series in New York, indieWIRE received short responses from "
Wonderful Town" director
Aditya Assarat and "
The Toe Tactic" director
Emily Hubley. "Wonderful Town" tells the story of loneliness against the backdrop of a town ravaged by a tsunami, while "The Toe Tactic" focuses on a woman facing life after the death of her father and her wallet... Both films are screening in ND/NF, co-hosted by the
Film Society of Lincoln Center and the
Museum of Modern Art through April 6.
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March 27, 2008
ND/NF '08 INTERVIEW | "Jellyfish" Co-director Etgar Keret and "Munyurangabo" Director Lee Isaac Chung
by indieWIRE (March 26, 2008)
In the first of two interviews running over the coming days as part of the spotlight on
New Directors/New Films series in New York, indieWIRE received short responses from co-director
Etgar Keret's
Festival de Cannes Camera'd'Or winner, "
Jellyfish" (Meduzot), also directed by
Shira Geffen set along the scenic Tel Aviv seaside about the lives of three women. Also screening in the series is
Lee Isaac Chung's "
Munyurangabo," about two boys of opposite ethnicities set against the backdrop of the end of Rwanda's genocide. The films will screen during the event taking place now though April 6.
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