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We Need to Talk About Oscar offers in-depth interviews with filmmakers, actors, and industry professionals.
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Greg Vrotsos turns the camera on himself in 'Situations' (opens the original)
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Writer-director-star Greg Vrotsos shot 'Situations' entirely within Silver Lake, and considers how uncommon it's become for a film to present Los Angeles as itself rather than a stand-in for somewhere else. He also unpacks the space between what he anticipated directing would feel like and what actually filled his days on set, plus whether the experience reshaped opinions he'd carried for years as an actor working under other directors. Several scenes place Greg's character, Nick, in conversatio
Joe Swanberg on scaling up and looking back in 'The Sun Never Sets' (opens the original)
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Joe Swanberg sets his first feature in nearly a decade against the vast landscapes of Anchorage, Alaska, a marked departure from the cramped apartments and coffee shops that have long defined relationship dramas. Joe reflects on what it meant to trade those intimate confines for bush planes and sprawling terrain, and how directing on that scale changed his day to day approach behind the camera. Known for building loose, outline-driven scripts that let dialogue emerge in the room, Joe considers w
Orlando von Einsiedel on destiny and documentary form in 'The Cycle of Love' (opens the original)
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Orlando von Einsiedel, the Academy Award winning director behind 'The White Helmets' and 'Virunga,' turns to romance with 'The Cycle of Love,' recreating PK Mahanandia's 6,000 mile bicycle journey from Delhi to Sweden. A dedicated London cyclist himself, Orlando reveals whether he pedaled alongside actor Chirag Lobo during production, and considers which strict verité habits he had to let go of once staging unscripted, actor driven scenes became central to the process. Real strangers encountered
Jess Zeidman and Leo Gallagher find rhythm in fragments in 'Human Theories' (opens the original)
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Director Jess Zeidman previously wrote 'Tahara' for Olivia Peace to direct, and this time stepped behind the camera herself, working alongside cinematographer Leo Gallagher, who moved up from gaffer on that earlier project to DP here. Jess unpacks what shifted in her instincts now that every creative choice landed on her desk, while Leo identifies which lessons from his prior work translated most directly to this larger undertaking. Built from more than 40 interconnected vignettes and a cast of
Shatara Michelle Ford and Ludovica Isidori craft a gentler collision for 'Dreams in Nightmares' (opens the original)
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Writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford and cinematographer Ludovica Isidori reunite for their second feature together following 'Test Pattern,' this time following three queer Black femmes searching for a missing friend across the American Midwest. They reflect on how the shorthand built during their first collaboration carried over or had to be rebuilt entirely once the scale and ambition of this story demanded something new from their partnership. Our conversation turns to the film's opening mo
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