WRITER INTERVIEWS
Discussions about the art of screenwriting with scriptwriters.

There’s nothing artificial about Sam Lucas Smith, director of Okay Google (2021)
From kick-starting his career in acting to writing and directing his own short films like Buy The Dip (2018), Sam Lucas Smith shares the tricks

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

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,

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