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Afia Nathaniel – Dukhtar #LFF

Afia Nathaniel, Director, Dukhtar. Festival Section: Journey. Fred meets with Afia Nathaniel, here at London Film Festival with her debut feature, Dukhtar. Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

October 20, 2014

British Film Institute London Film Festival Interview

Rebecca Johnson – Honeytrap #LFF

Rebecca Johnson, Writer/Director, Honeytrap Festival section: Dare Layla (Jessica Sula) is 15 and has been living in Trinidad. Returned to her estranged mother in Brixton, she is faced with settling into a new home and a new city with a fresh set of rules and codes. Unsupported by her mother and spitefully rejected by her female peers, she is drawn to the brooding Troy, who marks her as his ‘Trini princess’. …

October 18, 2014

British Film Institute London Film Festival Interview

Ty Johnson – Austin To Boston #LFF

Ty Johnson, Producer, Austin To Boston Festival section: Sonic London’s Communion is a flourishing artist-led community of musicians and creatives who provide a platform for the most vibrant new songwriting talent through gigs, club nights, a record label and publishing. In spring of 2012, Communion gathered a collection of its artists and embarked upon a gloriously backwards tour which covers three thousand miles in two weeks, powered entirely by five old …

October 18, 2014

British Film Institute London Film Festival Interview

Andy Seige and Pascal Dawson – Beti And Amare #LFF

Andy Seige, Writer/Director, Pascal Dawson, Producer/Actor, Beti And Amare Festival section: Dare Beti and Amare is an audacious, lower-than-micro-budget feature that blends romance, war, sci-fi and revenge film elements with a glorious level of invention. Set during the 1936 war between Italy and Ethiopia, the film sees Beti, a beautiful young woman, evade Mussolini’s advancing troops by travelling to the home of her elderly uncle, who lives alone in a cabin in the midst of …

October 18, 2014

British Film Institute London Film Festival Interview

Tala Hadid – The Narrow Frame of Midnight #LFF

Tala Hadid - Filmmaker - The Narrow Frame of Midnight FRED's Matt Micucci meets filmmaker Tala Hadid, who is presenting her feature THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT on the Journey section of the 58th BFI London Film Festival. Tala Hadid talks with us about how she successfully made her film an interactive experience, by paying particular attention to the rhythm of the film. She also tells us about how she …

October 11, 2014

British Film Institute London Film Festival Interview

Xavier Picard, Hanna Hemila – Moomins on the Riviera #LFF

Xavier Picard (Director and Co-Screenwriter ) and Hanna Hemila (Co-Screenwriter and Producer) - Moomins on the Riviera FRED's Matt Micucci meets filmmaker Xavier Picard and producer Hannah Hemila to talk about their animation film MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA. They talk about the challenges of difficulties of channelling the spirit of the original Moomins comic strips and finding financing for a hand drawn animation feature film. They also talk about the importance …

October 11, 2014