Category Archives: Interviews
Found Family and Lost Film: Interviewing John Bredin About a Hollywood for the Greater Good. By Lily C. Frame
“Can we imagine a Hollywood for the greater good?”- John Bredin John Bredin is a writer, educator, visionary thinker, activist, TV show host, filmmaker, actor, and businessman. His prevailing project honors his ancestral connection to one of America’s first movie … Continue reading
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Interview with Dr. Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong. By Catherine Colson
CCGL9001: Hong Kong Cinema Through a Global Lens is a MOOC – a massive open online course. It originates from the University of Hong Kong by Professor Gina Marchetti, Dr. Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, and Dr. Stacilee Ford. The course … Continue reading
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An Interview with Jinkyu Ahn, Experimental Animator. By Emmett Williams
Jinkyu Ahn is an experimental animator whose work has been featured and won awards around the world, from the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards to Animaze Daze at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Ahn participated in this Film Matters interview … Continue reading
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Exploring Film History: An Interview with Dr. Jon Cowans. By Emmett Williams
Jon Cowans is associate professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University–Newark and author of Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946–1959 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015). Dr. Cowans participated in this Film Matters interview via email in … Continue reading
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Interview with As Good as You Star, Laura Heisler. By Kim Carr
Laura Heisler is a theater, film, and television actress. She has appeared in many Off-Broadway productions as well as television shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, The Americans, and Madame Secretary. In 2015, she was cast as the lead in the … Continue reading
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Interview with As Good as You Director, Heather de Michele. By Kim Carr
Heather de Michele, a former New Yorker, cofounded Lesbian Pulp-o-rama, a sketch comedy troupe that performed live shows in New York. She went on to produce and direct a variety of film genres including commercials, web series, and shorts before … Continue reading
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Interview with Blake Atwood, Author of Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic (Colombia University Press, 2016). By Chamberlain Staub
Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic by Blake Atwood (2016) is a book that shines a detailed light on Iranian sociopolitical constructs and the media that aided the shift of these ideals. Although the author … Continue reading
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Interview with Jeremy Borum. By Ty Johnson
Jeremy Borum is a film composer and well-established artist in Hollywood. Not only has he composed for dozens of major projects, he teaches seminars, performs for enormous audiences, has built multiple studios, and even co-owns ZMX Music, a digital sheet … Continue reading
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Americana Film Studies: Interview with Stephen Lee Naish. By Lydia Plantamura
Get your IMDb app ready, because Stephen Lee Naish loves to reference both mainstream and independent films in this interview with Film Matters intern, Lydia Plantamura. Writing on a range of subjects in American films from digital manipulation in film … Continue reading
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