Interviews

Secrets of the Indie Thriller in Directors Betancourt and Ortega’s Borrowed

By Alan Ng | January 2023

David, a middle-aged painter living in a secluded but beautiful shoreline house in the Florida Keys, breaks his willful isolation to do…

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Secrets of the Indie Thriller in Directors Betancourt and Ortega’s Borrowed image — Secrets of the Indie Thriller in Directors Betancourt and Ortega’s Borrowe
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David, a middle-aged painter living in a secluded but beautiful shoreline house in the Florida Keys, breaks his willful isolation to do a portrait of a...

Mark Allen Michaels Takes Us Deep Into Tortured Stand-Up Comedian Prior image — Mark Allen Michaels Takes Us Deep Into Tortured Stand-Up Comedian Prior
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Mark Allen Michaels takes us deep into the tortured soul of a stand-up comic in Prior. When the titular character, played by Dallas Valdez, steps on stage,...

Inside Exposure with Director Holly Morris image — Inside Exposure with Director Holly Morris
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Filmmaker Holly Morris has a gift for storytelling. She finds a way for joy to flow in the most extreme and perilous situations, emotional and physical,...

Michael Goorjian on Bringing Modern Armenian Stories to the Big Screen image — Michael Goorjian on Bringing Modern Armenian Stories to the Big Screen
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In Amerikatsi, it's 1947, and an Armenian-American repatriates to Armenia only to end up in a Soviet prison. Hopeless and alone, he discovers he can see...

Dream We All Scream: Interview with Medusa director Anita Rocha da Silveira image — Dream We All Scream: Interview with Medusa director Anita Rocha da Silveira
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In Anita Rocha da Silveira's haunting thriller, Medusa, Mari, and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy...

Prano Bailey-Bond and Niamh Algar Explore The Video Nasty Era image — Prano Bailey-Bond and Niamh Algar Explore The Video Nasty Era
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Prano Bailey-Bond's Censor was my favorite film to come out of 2021's Sundance Film Festival. So, when I had the opportunity to speak with Bailey-Bond...

Turning a Buddhist Parable into a No-Budget Political Thriller with Daniel J. Coplan’s 8 Winds image — Turning a Buddhist Parable into a No-Budget Political Thriller with Daniel J. Co
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Finding its inspiration from The Long Good Bye and Chinatown, Daniel J. Coplan's feature, 8 Winds , follows an over-the-hill filmmaker, a comedy club...

Who Dunt Dunt Dunnit? Thomas Tulak Did…In His First Comedy Feature image — Who Dunt Dunt Dunnit? Thomas Tulak Did…In His First Comedy Feature
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Indie filmmaker Thomas Tulak was practically born to make movies. Starting off as that adorable kid from Hook to today with his feature film debut, Who...

Matthew Mishory Reveals What History Hides: MINT 2022 Filmmaker Spotlight image — Matthew Mishory Reveals What History Hides: MINT 2022 Filmmaker Spotlight
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For a sneak preview, MINT, Montana International Film Festival, closed its 2022 festival with the feature documentary film Who Are the Marcuses? the latest...

The Challenges of Political Documentaries in the Face of Controversy image — The Challenges of Political Documentaries in the Face of Controversy
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It's hard to believe it was only a year ago. On August 10, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned from office after a great deal of political...

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