Date: April 15, 2010
Location: Telephone one-on-one
Player(s): Allen Wolf, writer-director
Backstory: Plenty of filmmakers max out credit cards to raise money for their film projects, but not many launch a board game company, like Allen Wolf did, to get the financing they need. Wolf, the writer-director of “In My Sleep,” spent five years raising money for his [...]
Date: March 26, 2010
Location: Telephone one-on-one. Click HERE to listen.
Player(s): Casey Anderson, naturalist and host of “Expedition Wild” on Nat Geo WILD
Backstory: National Geographic launches a new network today called Nat Geo WILD with the debut of “Expedition Wild” with Casey Anderson. The premiere episode takes a multipart look at North America’s mightiest carnivores. Anderson [...]
Date: Feb. 26, 2010
Player(s): Ciaran Hinds
Back-story: At the moment Ciaran Hinds is relatively unknown to American audiences, even though he’s been working as a professional actor for nearly 30 years. That will soon change once Hinds stars as Aberforth Dumbledore in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” this summer. For now the actor is attracting [...]
Date: March 15, 2010
Location: Bellagio Hotel
Player(s): Joel Edgerton and Claire van der Bloom
Backstory: Apparition hosted a swanky cocktail party high above the Las Vegas strip on behalf of “The Square,” written by Joel Edgerton and directed by his brother, Nash. “The Square” is the first feature from the Australian brothers and has been getting positive [...]
Click on the image to hear a one-on-one interview with writer-director Josh Goldin. “Wonderful World,” starring Matthew Broderick, opens in theaters Jan. 8. For more information visit www.wonderfulworldfilm.com. Interview submitted by Sandra Kraisirideja.
Click on the image to hear the interview with filmmakers Rick Jacobson and Eric Gruendemann. “Bitch Slap” opens in theaters and VOD Jan. 8. Interview submitted by Sandra Kraisirideja.
By Sandra Kraisirideja
Director Noah Buschel was living in Greenwich Village on Sept. 11 when the Twin Towers collapsed. At the time he was also reading a lot of Raymond Chandler novels, which is what led him to write “The Missing Person,” a film noir starring Michael Shannon. Shannon was nominated for a Supporting Actor Oscar [...]
By Sandra Kraisirideja
Dave Foley, one of the founding members of “Kids in the Hall,” is currently starring in “The Strip,” an independent comedy about a Radio Shack-style electronics store and the ragtag group of salesmen who work there. Foley plays the earnest, well-meaning boss who suddenly finds himself tackling a mid-life crises. Foley still works [...]
By Sandra Kraisirideja
“A Chorus Line” is a behind-the-scenes account of the casting process for a Broadway show so a documentary film about the show’s 2008 revival is entirely fitting. The movie received positive reviews from critics and the DVD hit shelves on Oct. 13. Director Adam Del Deo shared his experiences during the making of [...]
By Sandra Kraisirideja
How do you breathe new life into a standard love story? The trend this year has been to throw the old formula of boy meets girl out the window and start from anywhere else but the beginning. “Peter and Vandy,” written and directed by Jay DiPietro (and based on his play of the [...]
