If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive? How To Be Human is a crowd-funded ambitious and visually impressive short recently screened at SCI-FI LONDON that follows two sisters, (…) Continue Reading »

How did your collaboration on this film start? We were invited on to the CPH:LAB programme to collaborate and luckily shared the same sense of humour and found the possibility inspiring. For the uninitiated, could you explain a little bit more about this junction between the three countries and its significance? Treriksröset is in Lapland and it’s a ’borderstone’ between Norway, Sweden (…) Continue Reading »

Comment a débuté votre collaboration ? Nous étions invités par l’équipe du programme CPH:LAB à collaborer et heureusement nous partageons le même sens de l’humour, nous avons donc tout de suite donc trouvé cette idée intéressante ! Pour ceux (…) Lire la suite »

’We are still here’ are the final words uttered by Oscar Isaac in The Promise, which depicts the harrowing story of the Armenian genocide, the very first genocide of the twentieth century, yet a genocide still denied to this very day. Set in (…) Continue Reading »

In short, loved it. In long, ‘Get Out’ is everything you’ve heard and more. Consistently, whether I’m in book club, the bar, in a secret black people meeting at work, people who’ve seen it want to see it again. And those who have seen it twice offer to go with me to see it for a third time. The only thing armchair critics are wrong about is that the film is scary. Not sure who billed it as a (…) Continue Reading »

Introverted Boss is a South Korean television series also known as Sensitive Boss or Shy Boss. The show explores the stories of Eun Hwan Ki, a CEO of a prominent PR company with extreme social anxiety, and a young woman, Chae Ro Woon, whose sister committed suicide at the same company. After a very exciting and revelatory fifth episode exploring the backstories of the main characters, the (…) Continue Reading »

After a long break from broadcast, Introverted Boss (also known as Sensitive Boss or Shy Boss) returned to TvN with its fifth episode. The reason for the delay in broadcast was partly the large number of complaints the show had received. The writers and producers of the drama allegedly stopped the broadcast to re-write parts of the script to make the story suit the audience’s suggestions. (…) Continue Reading »

Astrid Goldsmith is an animator based in Kent. Her short, Squirrel Island, was rewarded at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival; the craftsmanship displayed and attention to detail were applauded by the festival’s audience and jury alike. We caught up with Astrid to find out more about her approach to animation and sources of inspiration. Le court du jour : “Squirrel island” de Astrid (…) Continue Reading »

Another week, another K drama review courtesy of Nandini Uppluri. The show also goes by Sensitive Boss or Shy Boss. It’s broadcasting on TvN in South Korea and is a story involving a CEO of a PR company (Eun Hwan-Ki) who suffers from severe anxiety and a young woman (Chae Ro-Woon) who has entered the same company to investigate the circumstances around her sister’s suicide who was a former (…) Continue Reading »

So, can you tell us more about Gasper and how the idea for the film came about? The film came about when I took a trip back to Ireland, where I grew up, to visit family and friends in the summer of 2015. While I was there I unexpectedly met Gasper, an old friend from Ireland, who was part of a group of friends that I grew up with. One evening, when I was driving Gasper home after a friend’s (…) Continue Reading »