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.

‘It’s a great time to get into the industry’ says BSL Filmmaker Samuel Dore
From working with CBBC to Channel 4, Samuel Dore has certainly made a name for himself in the industry. After having the pleasure of meeting

‘It was like winning an an Oscar’ Filmmaker Russell Owen on receiving Mark Kermode’s ‘Film of the Week’
‘It was like winning an Oscar!’ That’s how writer/director Russell Owen described received the much-coveted ‘Film of the Week’ seal of approval from the renowned

‘I don’t think too much about genre when creating a story. Why restrict yourself?’ – Filmmaker George Popov
In this interview, Bulgarian born writer/director/producer George Popov discusses his approach to filmmaking, and how he managed to make his first two features on a

‘Depicting the aging process in Kitchen Tales was all about movement…’ – Jane Moriarty & Sheena Bhattessa
Short film Kitchen Tales (2021) is the result of a spark that ignited when director Jane Moriarty and actor/producer Sheena Bhattessa, discovered screenwriter Anupama Chandrasekhar’s

Filmmaker Camille Griffin: ‘Securing Keira Knightley for my directorial debut changed EVERYTHING!’
How do you deal with rejection from the film industry? You’ve made short films and you’re ready to make a feature film but feel like

Dolph Lundgren’s career confessions: ‘Maybe I didn’t always make the right choices…’
Our guest for this episode is icon of cinema Dolph Lundgren, an actor, writer and director who famously made his debut as Russian boxer Ivan