Category Archives: Interviews

In late February 2025, I talked with filmmaker Manuel Embalse about the film he edited, Under the Flags, the Sun (Bajo las banderas, el sol), which premiered in the Panorama section at the 75th Berlinale. The conversation soon shifted to the film industry, history, and politics at large.

导演杨名、摄影师摄影师、制片人邓煜曈讨论《鬣狗》的制作过程和项目背后的故事。

Lv Junke 吕俊珂 talks with the filmmaker Abe Callard about his short film “Ghost Writer” screening in the international competition at the Beijing International Short Film Festival 2024.

Curator Chen Huei-Yin reflects on the founding of Women Make Waves IFF, the transformations it has undergone, and how every step of its development has remained closely intertwined with the social dynamics of Taiwan.

2025年10月17日至26日，台灣國際女性影展（Women Make Waves International Film Festival，簡稱：女影、WMWIFF）將迎來第32屆，以前瞻的策展理念呈現多元而銳利的選片。在此次訪談中，「女影」策展人陳慧穎談及影展的創立歷程與影展發展所帶來的變化，並強調每一步都與臺灣當地的社會脈動緊密相關。

I have always been very interested in the means of film funding and how it shapes both the filmmaking process and the finished film. That is one of the many reasons why this conversation with Meiske Taurisia – the Indonesian film producer – remains one of my fondest memories of interviewing filmmakers.

在鹿特丹一个飘雪、寒冷的清晨，Gagaland 的媒体场次刚刚结束，一群记者走出放映厅，神情恍惚地环顾四周。刚刚在银幕上看到的东西，充满了社交媒体的美学气质，并交织着纪录片、童话与音乐录像的元素。
不久之后，我与策展人丁大为一起采访了这部影片 23 岁的导演滕语涵和制片人闵婕，谈论 Gagaland 的创作过程以及支撑其背后的理念。

During the CinemAsia Film Festival in 2025, filmmaker Truong Minh Quý presented his feature, Việt and Nam, to audiences in Amsterdam. It was an unexpectedly warm early March in the Netherlands when we sat down in the festival office near Studio K to talk about the film, almost one year after its premiere at theContinue reading ““Always unnamed, but present”: An interview with Truong Minh Quý”