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.
15Aug
Fantasia Fest 2024 – KCrush Interview ‘KIZUMONOGATARI Koyomi Vamp’ with Director and Producer
World renowned Japanese director and animator Tatsuya Ishiwaki, and Aniplex producer Tatsuya Oishi, joined film critic and journalist Carolyn Hinds to chat about their world famous animated film ‘KIZUMONOGATARI – Koyomi... Read More
29Jul
FantasiaFest 2024 – KCrush ‘Mash Ville’ with Creative Team and Cast
For the World Premiere of their ensemble multi-genre western inspired film ‘Mash Ville’, at the 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival, Film Critic and Journalist Carolyn Hinds spoke with filmmaker Hwang Wook, co-writer and producer... Read More
23Jul
ShortShorts Film Festival & Asia 2024 – Interview with Director Koo Hye Sun
For the 2024 Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Film Critic and Journalist Carolyn Hinds spoke to writer, director, composer and actress Koo Hye-sun about her short film ‘STUDIO KOOHYESUN’ in which Koo takes a look back at... Read More
15Jul
ShortShorts Film Festival & Asia 2024 – Interview with ‘Jung Ok’ Filmmaker Yoo Ji min
Film Critic and Journalist spoke with writer and director Yoo Ji-min about her narrative short film ‘Jung Ok’, which screened at the 2024 Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Japan. In their interview, Carolyn and Yoo Ji-min... Read More
10Jul
JeonjuIFF 2024 – Interview with Lee Won sik Director of ‘A Song of Korean Factory Girls’
Film Critic and Journalist Carolyn Hinds spoke to filmmaker Lee Won-sik about his documentary ‘A Song of Korean Factory Girls’ about the young Korean girls and women who were taken to work in the Osaka cotton mills, during the... Read More
24Jun
ShortShorts Film Festival & Asia 2024 – Interview with Nedda Sarshar Director of ‘Unibrow’
Film Critic and Journalist Carolyn Hinds speaks to Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Nedda Sarshar about her short film ‘Unibrow’, beauty standards, teenage and cultural insecurity and acceptance. The film screened in the Shibuya... Read More
20Jun
ShortShorts Film Festival & Asia 2024 – Interview with ‘Saigon Kiss’ writer and director Nguyễn Hồng Anh
In this interview film critic and journalist Carolyn Hinds speaks with filmmaker Nguyễn Hồng Anh about her queer romance short film ‘Saigon Kiss’ which screened in the Rainbow Program at the Japanese festival (SSFF& Asia)... Read More
18Jun
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2024 – Interview with Ikeda Kei director of ‘to I’
Film Critic and Journalist Carolyn Hinds speaks with Filmmaker Ikeda Kei about his latest short film ‘to I’ which screens in the Asia International & Japan Program of the 2024 ShortShorts Film Festival & Asia in Japan.... Read More
8Jun
JeonjuIFF 24 – Interview with Namkoong Sun Director of ‘Time to Be Strong’
“All that glitters isn’t gold” Is a phrase I often heard growing up to describe how people can project an outward appearance of perfection while behind closed doors their lives would be anything but perfect. In her second feature film Time... Read More
28May
JeonjuIFF 24 ‘Voices’ Interview with Filmmaker Jee Hye Won
There is strength in silence when the silence becomes your testimony of what is too difficult to speak aloud. In director Jee Hyewon’s latest documentary VOICES, which screened in the Korean Cinema program of the 2024 25th Jeonju International... Read More
16May
JeonjuIFF 2024 – Interview with Kim Junhyung Writer and Director of ‘A Sucker Punch’
Written by student filmmaker Kim Junhyung, A Sucker Punch is a short which film premiered in the Korean Competition for Shorts program at the 25th Jeonju International Film Festival, in Jeonju, South Korea. Despite its 15 minute run time, A... Read More
24Apr
KCrush ‘In Flames’ Interview with Actresses Ramesha Nawal and Bakhtawar Mazhar
KCrush ‘In Flames’ Interview with Actresses Ramesha Nawal and Bakhtawar Mazhar Carolyn Hinds Freelance Critic, Journalist & Podcaster African American Film Critics Association Member, Tomatometer-Approved Critic Co-Host &... Read More
24Apr
KCrush ‘In Flames’ Interview with Filmmaker Zarrar Kahn
For his feature directorial debut In Flames, Canadian-Pakistani filmmaker Zarrar Kahn, gives audiences a densely layered psychological horror story of how trauma and the secrets we keep can end up imprisoning us in a life of uncertainty, fear, and... Read More
24Apr
The Queen of My Dreams – Interview with Writer and Director Fawzia Mirza
Written and directed by Fawzia Mirza, The Queen of My Dreams takes a technicolor look at the relationships between mothers and daughters and how their cultures, histories, and even political histories intertwine to create the most complex of bonds.... Read More
29Mar
SXSW 2024 ‘Seven Sisters’ Interview with Artist Rainbow Chan and Director Anne Berry
In the thematic music video for her song ‘Seven Sisters’, singer, lyricist, composer, and producer Chun Yun Rainbow Chan looks into her ancestry to the ways of the Weitou people and the ‘bridal lament’ of the women yearning to be... Read More
20Mar
SXSW 2024 ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ Interview with Filmmaker Shuchi Talati
The phrase “Girls will be girls”, shouldn’t seem like a revelation, but if you pause and think about it…it is. Award-winning writer and director Suchi Talati takes the well-known adage “Boys will be boys”, and recontextualizes it to... Read More
14Feb
Sundance 2024 Interview with ’14 Paintings’ Filmmaker Dongnan Chen
In her latest documentary short film 14 Paintings, which premiered in the Documentary Short Films Program at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, award-winning director Dongnan Chen (The Trail From Xinjian 2013, Singing in the Wilderness 2022),... Read More
7Feb
KCrush Interview With “Brief History of a Family” Filmmaker Jianjie Lin – Sundance 2024
Premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Brief History of a Family, is first time feature writer and director Jianjie Lin’s tense, methodically paced, and layered examination of the effects of China’s infamous political strategy... Read More
30Jan
Sundance 2024 Red Carpet Interview with Dìdi 弟弟 Filmmaker Sean Wang and Cast
For his first feature film Dìdi (弟弟) – the Mandarin word for little brother – writer and director Sean Wang, chose to look to his past, 2008 to be specific, for inspiration in order to look forward. 2008 is a time where the... Read More
27Jan
KCrush Interview with AGENT OF HAPPINESS Directors – Sundance 2024
Since 2008 the government and monarchy of Bhutan have made it a political and cultural policy to promote happiness to foster stability of the country itself. By implementing the Gross National Happiness (GNH) index, an equation that mathematically... Read More
22Jan
