Interviews with Directors and Artists
A comment and an interview with filmmaker Minda Martin
Free Land: American dreams and realities
By Joanne Laurier, November 15, 2012
Minda Martin’s 2010 film Free Land, at the same time a documentary-essay and personal memoir, poetically and evocatively connects a variety of social and personal events.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012
A comment from Robert Connolly, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story
By Joanne Laurier, November 6, 2012
Robert Connolly, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, responds to questions from Joanne Laurier of the WSWS.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Interview with Damien Ounouri, director of Fidaï, and Mohamed El Hadi Benadouda
By David Walsh, October 18, 2012
The WSWS spoke to Damien Ounouri, director of Fidaï, and Mohamed El Hadi Benadouda, a veteran of the Algerian revolution and subject of Ounouri’s film.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 6
Interviews with five filmmakers about life and art in India, Ivory Coast, Guatemala, Angola and Haiti
By David Walsh, October 9, 2012
A good many honest and intriguing films screened at the recent Toronto film festival. The WSWS interviewed a number of directors about their films and the conditions in their respective countries.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 5
Detroit’s belated “renaissance”—on film
By Joanne Laurier, October 5, 2012
A number of films about Detroit have suddenly emerged … including now a fiction work about the complicated interactions between the city’s Arab and African American populations.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Interviews with John Gianvito, Minda Martin and Travis Wilkerson—co-directors of Far From Afghanistan
By David Walsh, October 2, 2012
The WSWS spoke to three of the five directors of Far From Afghanistan.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012
An interview with Mahdi Fleifel and Patrick Campbell, director and co-producer of A World Not Ours
By David Walsh, September 26, 2012
The WSWS spoke to Mahdi Fleifel, writer and director of A World Not Ours and Patrick Campbell, co-producer (along with Fleifel) of the film, during the recent Toronto film festival.
“I want to have people influenced by John Heartfield”: An interview with the German artist’s grandson
By Paul Bond, September 11, 2012
The WSWS recently interviewed John J. Heartfield, grandson of the left-wing German artist and master of the political photo montage, John Heartfield.
Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus discusses Beauty
By Richard Phillips, August 4, 2012
Beauty is about a married middle-aged Afrikaans businessman whose life has become a lie.
Interview with Jack Shepherd, British actor and playwright
By Vicky Short, Antoine Lerougetel, July 11, 2012
Award-winning actor and playwright Jack Shepherd was born in Yorkshire in October 1940. As well as acting, writing, producing and directing, he also plays the saxophone and jazz piano.
An interview with Helen Edmundson, author of Mary Shelley
By Barbara Slaughter, June 13, 2012
The WSWS recently spoke to playwright Helen Edmundson, whose play on the life of Mary Shelley is currently running in London.
Stormbelt exhibition in Toronto—a dark journey through America’s Sun Belt
An interview with photographer Robert Leslie
By Lee Parsons, May 29, 2012
Raised in Canada, now living and working in Europe, Robert Leslie is an artist of genuinely humane sensibilities, as his recent photographic work illustrates.
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