DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS
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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.
Independent filmmaker Michael Matteo Rossi: from film school to award-winning crime thrillers
Michael Matteo Rossi is an accomplished independent film director, screenwriter and producer who is best known for his crime thriller Chase (2019), starring Damien Puckler
Writer-director Elza Kephart’s Indie horror Slaxx (2020) with a message deeper than your pocket
Emerging filmmaking talent is something that we at Film Forums will always be interested in covering. Enter award-winning writer-director Elza Kephart, the creative behind tongue-in-cheek
Son (2021) writer/director Ivan Kavanagh asks: is there anything you wouldn’t do for your child?
Given what he reveals in the following interview, writer and director Ivan Kavanagh probably doesn’t especially subscribe to the ‘luck of the Irish’. It’s clear
Hicham Hajji on Risk, Redemption and Taking on Hollywood
After he graduated from the Montreal Film School Hicham Hajji spent a year working on high profile music videos. He then ventured to Morocco where
Climbing up the filmmaking ladder: Jacob Johnston, director of Dreamcatcher (2021)
Filmmaker Jacob Johnston has quite the repertoire of films on his IMDb page. Hired by Marvel Studios after completing an internship there, he’s worked on
Liam O’Donnell: ‘I wasn’t trying to make a pandemic movie with Skylines (2020). It just turned out that way!’
What film director Liam O’Donnell has achieved with Skylines (2020) is just about every film student’s dream… Starting out as a completely independent film venture,