A boy lives a dull life full of chores on his father’s ranch, until one day when he befriends one of his father’s livestock- a piñata llama!
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December 2020
Q&A with Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer
The people you speak with are so engaging, and so sincere. How well did you know them before you started shooting?
Clive Oppenheimer: I only knew Simon Schaffer, who is a historian of science in Cambridge.
December 2013
Q&A with Thelma Schoonmaker, Terence Winter, and Leonardo DiCaprio
What was the process of you discovering the source material and trying to get it produced?
DeCaprio: As soon as I read the novel I thought, “This is like a modern day Caligula.”
May 2021
Q&A with Michael Rianda, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of The Mitchells vs the Machines. This film has been long in the making and is clearly a heartfelt project. Mike, can you tell us how it all started? Michael Rianda: Sony had approached me about making a movie and because […]
April 2021
Q&A with Lee Isaac Chung, Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, and Yuh-Jung Youn
Steven, how did you conceive of Jacob initially?
Steven Yeun: When I read Isaac’s script, it was really honest from all perspectives and that was really the foundation of it all.
October 2013
Q&A with J.C. Chandor and Robert Redford
Why did you want to be in this film?
Redford: Because he asked me! In all honesty, I’ve spent many years building an organization to promote independent film, and yet no one has asked me to work in their film.
November 2015
Q&A with Finola Dwyer, Saoirse Ronan, and John Crowley
What in your own life has helped you connect with the story?
John Crowley: I moved to London when I was 27 to direct a play at the National Theatre. Having been back and forth from London since I was about ten, I knew London better than I knew Dublin.
September 2023
Q&A with David Petersen, Steven Melendez, and Mary Recine
How did the project begin?
David Petersen: So it began at a dog park, where all projects have to start!
March 2023
Q&A with A.V. Rockwell and Teyana Taylor
A.V. Rockwell: I really wanted to tell a story, especially for my first film, that recognized my coming of age experience in New York City…
June 2024
Q&A with Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps
What was the process of getting in sync with each other? Was there a lot of workshopping or did you wait until the outset to really work out the scenes?
Viggo Mortensen: I don’t think we workshopped anything. When Vicky was doing something that worked really well, I didn’t say much of anything. But when I had a different thought or wanted to try something different, I would say something. But mostly, I thought she always understood the character really well, which was great.
June 2024
Q&A with Kai Höss, Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Wendy Robbins, and Daniela Völker
Maya, I understand that the seed of the idea for this film originated with you?
Maya Lasker-Wallfisch: Yes: I wrote a book, which was apparently interesting! And one of the things I wrote about in the book were two themes that really interested Daniela. And so Daniela and I were connected through a mutual person that we both knew.
July 2023
Lotus Green
Lotus Green tells the story of a socially awkward high school student who holds a strong love for plants and can’t stop talking about them. When he develops an unlikely school crush, he quickly finds a way to win a heart AND talk about plants.
June 2018
LIFELINE – Directed by L. Marcus Williams
She is a woman in despair who calls a suicide hotline not for help, but to say goodbye. He is the operator who takes her call, who must do everything he can to keep her on the line. Will he lose her, or will she find the will to live?
July 2014
Late Spring – Directed by Zachary Kerschberg
Late Spring is the story of Mahmoud, a petty clerk in a police station during the beginning of the Libyan revolution, who must suddenly chose sides when a tortured prisoner asks him for help.
June 2018
Esta Niña Linda – Directed by Christian J. Fernandez
Desperate to escape their native Cuba in a time of turmoil, Marciel and his young sister, Perla, journey in the cover of nightfall, boarding a makeshift raft. Cobbled together by twisted metal and foam and propelled by an old Soviet car engine, their vessel is the only thing that stands between them and the open sea. Esta Niña Linda is a short film about survival, and the story of a brother and sister’s relationship as they trek 90 miles in search of the U.S.