Filmmaker Interviews provide a unique opportunity to delve into the creative minds behind some of the most influential films. Through these interviews, filmmakers share insights into their artistic processes, inspirations, challenges, and the stories that drive their work.
30Jun
Jeonju IFF 2025 KCrush Interview with ‘Ulysses’ Filmmaker Uwagawa Hikaru
Is there any singular moment in our lives that is ever truly without meaning? In his debut feature film Ulysses, Japanese filmmaker Uwagawa Hikari seeks to find this out through seemingly random improvised sequence of events and discussions... Read More
9Jun
Jeonju IFF 2025 – KCrush Interview with ‘Sumbisori’ Filmmaker Lee Eun-jung
For her debut feature film Sumbisori, writer and director Lee Eun-jung uses the unique culture and community of Korea’s famed Haenyeo, to explore the strained relationship between a daughter, Hae-jin (Lee Sun-bin), and her mother Ok-ran (Seo... Read More
26May
Jeonju IFF 2025 – KCrush Interview with ‘Winter in Sockho’ Director Koya Kamura
Based on the 2016 award-winning novel “Winter in Sokcho” by Elisa Shua Dusapin, filmmaker Koya Kamura’s adaption and debut feature film, is a quiet introspection on what identity, beauty, and self-confidence looks like in modern day South... Read More
12May
Jeonju IFF 2025 – KCrush Interview with ‘Mistress Dispeller’ Director Elizabeth Lo
For her second feature length film Mistress Dispeller, documentarian Elizabeth Lo follows a wife, her husband, his mistress, and the dispeller, the woman hired to cast out the mistress like a spell created to break the fragile bonds of marriage.... Read More
5May
Jeonju IFF 2025 – KCrush Interview with ‘Mongrels’ Director Jerome Yoo and Producer Nach Dudsdeemaytha
How far would a husband and father run to escape the grief howling at his howls like a dog begging to be noticed and acknowledged? How much can his children go before the exhaustion of refusing to face this monster nipping at their heels drags them... Read More
27Nov
REEL Asian 2024 – KCrush Interview with ‘Pierce’ Filmmaker Nelicia Low
For her debut feature film Pierce, writer and director Nelicia Low (Freeze, Let Her Eat Cake) took a look back to her past a member of the national Singapore fencing team, and her curiosity at the complicated relationship between her and her... Read More
25Nov
Ulju Mountain Film Festival 2024 (“UMFF’) 2024 – KCrush Interview with ‘All the Days’ Filmmaker Heo Sung-wan.
Written and directed by Heo Sung-wan, All the Days feels like a series of snapshots of the ordinary days in the lives of three 20-something young people trying to figure out what the next steps in their lives are. All the Days which had its world... Read More
19Nov
Reel Asian 2024 – KCrush Interview with ‘Lucky Star’ Filmmaker Gillian McKercher and Actor Andrew Phung
“Luck is what you make of it” is a saying that has been around for generations to describe the work people have to put into to turn situations in their favor, and perfectly encapsulates the dilemma father and reformed... Read More
16Nov
Reel Asian 2024 – KCrush Interview with ‘Exclusion: Beyond the Silence’ Filmmaker Keira Loughran
Toronto Reel Asian 2024 KCrush Interview With ‘Exclusion: Beyond The Silence’ Filmmaker Keira Loughran On July 1st, 1923, the Mackenzie King, the current Prime Minister of Canada signed into law the Chinese Immigration Act of... Read More
11Nov
Minikino 2024 KCrush Interview With ‘Sukoun, (Amplified)’ Filmaker Dina Naser
In her short film Sukoun (Amplified) which screened in the Boundaries program of the 2024 Minikino Film Week 10 of the Bali International Film Festival, Palestinian-Jordinian filmmaker Dina Naser brings draws attention to the... Read More
11Nov
Minikino 2024 KCrush Interview With ‘Purusa: Wedding Sacred’ Filmaker I Made Suniartika
‘The more society progresses, the more it seems to stay the same and even regress, and always at the expense of girls and women’, is just one of the many observations Indonesian student filmmaker I Made Suniartika makes in... Read More
6Nov
Ulju Mountain Film Festival (“UMFF”) 2024 KCrush Interview with ‘Work To Do’ Director Park Hong-jun
In his debut feature film Work to Do, writer and director Park Hong-jun gives audiences a unique perspective of the innerworkings of the Human Resources (HR) department of a South Korean shipbuilding company amid a crisis set to change the course... Read More
30Oct
TIFF 2024 KCrush Interview with ‘The Gesuidouz’ Filmmaker Kenichi Ugana
Why is this so frustrating?!” is a question I ask myself every time I sit down to write a piece for publication. The angst of the creative process is exasperating, energy consuming and… well, fun. Once you’ve gotten into... Read More
20Oct
Minikino 2024 Interview with ‘A Fermenting Woman’ Director Priscilla Galvez & Writer Maisie Jacobson
How far is an artist supposed to go or allowed to go in their creative process before they’ve crossed boundaries into the unforgivable? Why are people having periods still taboo to talk, show and reference about in person and on screen?... Read More
13Oct
JeonjuIFF 2024 – Interview with Director Jo Won yong
In his short film Recite with Your Hands, Jazz columnist and filmmaker Jo Won-yong taps into the disconnect writers can experience when the emotions being conveyed through a piece of art seems beyond our reach. In the film, deaf literature... Read More
29Sep
TIFF24 KCrush Interview with ‘The Mother and the Bear’ Filmmaker Johnny Ma
Premiering in the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2024 Centrepiece program, filmmaker Johnny Ma’s (Oldstone, 2016, To Live to Sing, 2019), latest film The Mother and the Bear is a cosmic fairytale, but not quite, exploration... Read More
19Sep
FantasiaFest 2024 KCrush ‘A Samurai in Time’ Interview with Filmmaker Jun’ichi Yasuda
What’s a Samurai in the Edo period do when he finds himself transported hundreds of years into the future to the chaotic and confusing world of filmmaking? In his time-slip comedy A Samurai in Time, director Yasuda Junichi gives... Read More
19Sep
TIFF24 KCrush ‘Seven Days’ Interview with Filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi
For the World Premiere of his latest dramatic feature Seven Days / Haft Rooz, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, renowned Iranian filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi spoke with Film Critic and Journalist Carolyn Hinds. The film quite... Read More
29Aug
JeonjuIFF 2024 – Interview with ‘Between the Two of Us’ Director Sung Ji-Hye
Between the Two of Us – KCrush Interview With Filmmaker Sung Ji-hye by Carolyn Hinds Written and directed by filmmaker Sung Ji-hye, Between the Two of Us looks at the intersection between disability, pregnancy, and loneliness in marriage... Read More
29Aug
KCrush Fantasia Fest 2024 – Interview with ‘The Tenants’ Director Yoon Eun-Kyung
The Tenants – KCrush Interview With Filmmaker Yoon Eun-kyoung by Carolyn Hinds For the Fantasia International Film Festival premiere of her noir psychological thriller The Tenants, filmmaker Yoon Eun-kyoung spoke with Film Critic and... Read More
15Aug
