DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS
What does it take to be a film director? Interviews with the visionaries and the creative leads on film sets provide a fascinating industry insights for aspiring filmmakers.

Nick Sasso on casting a transgender actor who leads by example in Haymaker (2021)
Nick Sasso is a filmmaker from LA who decided ‘it’s now or never’. Having spent more than two decades in the film industry, largely in

Tamara Bass & Meagan Good: breaking barriers for black women in film
‘What happens when unresolved trauma comes to the surface?’ This is one of the central questions that motivated the development and creation of If Not

Filmmaking whilst living in exile with Nadira Murray, director of Locked In (2017)
Political exile and award-winning filmmaker, Nadira Murray, tells Film Forums’ Aiysha Jebali exactly what inspired her cinematic rendition of the UK former “Fast Track” deportation

Lauren McCann, actor and indie filmmaker: ‘If you do it for someone you love, is it OK?’
Lauren McCann, actor, and the writer and director of Girl Boxer (2019), discusses the fine lines of morality in life and film with presenter and

Director John Suits on working with Bruce Willis on Breach (2020), ‘Die Hard’ and filmmaking
Not too many people can tell you that they’ve directed Bruce Willis on the set of ‘Die Hard’. Movie director John Suits can. Find out

“Write cheap and then write another…” with Braden R. Duemmler, Director/Writer of What Lies Below (2020)
USC School of Cinematic Arts graduate and successful filmmaker, Braden R. Duemmler, reveals what he has learned over the years – from being a student