Screen Extra

Dornaz is a filmmaker who graduated from the London Film School last year and was mentored by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. She won a scholarship to LFS thanks to a scheme run by [Magic of Persia->http://magicofpersia.com. She’s currently working on her first feature film... Can you tell me a bit more about your background as a filmmaker? I started a film course taught by the famous Iranian filmmaker Bahram Beyzayi, actually. The class was theoretical and we focused mostly on the (…)

Low-budget horror Skew, an ambitious first feature with some genuinely creepy moments, has become a bit of an underground hit. We’ve caught up with director Sevé, whose latest film Peelers has finished off doing the rounds of festivals everywhere. Can you tell me a bit more about your background as a filmmaker? Ever since I was a kid I wanted to make movies. I always had a camera in my hand, following my friends and family around, videotaping them, making up stories as I stalked them. (…)

Snack Movies and Life Online If you make or watch short films, you should be familiar with Snoovies by now. Created in 2013 by three London actors (Roger Carvalho, Karsten Huttenhain and Viana Maya), this free App showcases quality short films (aka “Snoovies”) on all mobile devices, tablets and smartphone alike. With a gorgeous homepage that puts short films in handy “make me... (smile, laugh, cry, think, tremble)” categories, the trio recently won the Platinum Award for Best Designed (…)

LES HUIT SALOPARDS Se sentant apparemment à son aise dans l’univers du western, Quentin Tarantino nous propose, trois ans après sa relecture de Django, un nouveau western bien racé. Mais si son précédent western était une nouvelle déclaration d’amour aux années westerns spaghetti, l’influence majeur de ce nouvel opus est à chercher du côté du film d’horreur / fantastique. En effet, à plusieurs reprises, le réalisateur américain a déclaré s’être inspiré du The Thing de John Carpenter pour (…)

Apparently now well at ease with the genre, Quentin Tarantino, three years after his reinterpretation of Django, is back with a good, old-fashioned manly western. But if his previous output paid homage to spaghetti westerns, this new effort is definitely more influenced by the horror genre. Indeed, Tarantino declared several times that The Hateful Eight was largely inspired by John Carpenter’s The Thing. And this influence is felt throughout the film : the presence of Kurt Russell (one of (…)

Les Parasites saw the light just over a couple of years ago, when friends Bastien Ughetto, Guillaume Desjardins and Jérémie Bernard decided to team up and take part in the 48h film challenge, which they went on to win. Since then, they’ve brought new members on board, they’ve racked up awards and hundreds of thousands of views on their Youtube page, on which they showcase their short films. We caught up with them in their new premises in Paris last week. What are your respective (…)

As we were up in Bristol for Encounters, we caught up with Elizabeth Mizon, programmer for the Radical Film Festival, which will take place on 9-11 October, just opposite the Watershed, the current home of Encounters, at the Arnolfini. We had a chat about funding, this year’s programme and whether the political environment in Britain has led to an increase in interest. More info at: https://www.facebook.com/RadicalFilmFestival http://bristolradicalfilmfestival.org.uk/ @BristolFilmFest

Your previous documentaries are all about widely varying subjects. What inspired you to make one about Greenpeace? I try and do something different from one film to the next. I like looking at new subject matter and trying new approaches. This one emerged from the realisation that there was all this footage, all the original rushes used in Greenpeace’s campaigning films in the 1970s that hadn’t really been looked at since. I was interested in making a film that wasn’t a campaigning film (…)

Festival Scope have just sent us news that they’d partnered with the Venice Film Festival to set up Sala Web, an initiative that allows them to screen premieres online for 5 days. Sala Web showcases a selection of films from the Orizzonti Competition. New films will be available for streaming until the 11 September (inc. Jake Mahaffy’s FREE IN DEED). More info at home.festivalscope.com/ https://www.facebook.com/venicesalaweb https://twitter.com/venice_salaweb

Ahead of Bristol’s Encounters Festival, Ryan Ormonde talks with Richard Williams, the award-winning animator, most famous as director of animation on the technically ground-breaking Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Encounters will be screening his new short film Prologue, entirely drawn by Williams himself, as part of their Rise and Fall programme. An intriguing part of the Disney myth occurs in the chronology at some point between Bambi and Cinderella. A 15 year-old boy has travelled from Toronto (…)