Category: Interviews
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Director Rachel Feldman on LILLY, Patricia Clarkson, Netflix debut
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Imagine you’re a rookie film director, you land Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson with her unmistakable New Orleans guile plus a very fine cast including actors John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski for a movie about one of America’s unsung, true-life, gutsy working women? Director Rachel Feldman did just…
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Director Robert Clem on insider Gospel music for doc HOW THEY GOT OVER
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent After watching documentary HOW THEY GOT OVER, directed by Robert Clem, more than the music of the Soul Stirrers, Dixie Hummingbirds, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Sensational Nightingales, the Davis Sisters, and other featured artists stays with you. There’s Sister Rosetta Tharpe in all her glory, guitar on the…
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RED ROCKET rendezvous with screenwriter Chris Bergoch
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent RED ROCKET shot off as a commando Award Season contender this year on the film festival circuit, and you’ll really be in for a ride on Dec. 3 when this new film from Director Sean Baker hits the multiplex. Baker is known for THE FLORIDA PROJECT and TANGERINE, both…
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Screenmancer’s 25th Anniversary: Screenwriter Scott Sublett’s interview
by Robinson Rea, Screenmancer Producer Educator/Screenwriter Scott Sublett’s interview first appeared on Screenmancer.com as part of ScreenTalk. During Screenmancer’s 25th Anniversary, top ranked content will rerun as part of the marking of twenty-five years live online. Scott Sublett, MFA UCLA in Screenwriting, teaches at San Jose State University. Robin Rea: What common mistakes or misconceptions…
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Filmmaker Jon Alston talks AUGUSTUS, entry for Best Live Action Short
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent “I am America’s original sin…” and a patriot, opens Director Jon Alston’s AUGUSTUS, spoken by the titular character. With this brief introduction, here is Alston in his own words on making the short for consideration in the current Award Season. But first, a quick synopsis of the 15 minute…
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Wild women and whiskey, not the song, Allison Volk from DEANY BEAN IS DEAD has a lockdown film
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Even some women may not know as much as Allison Volk about how to handle this Pandemic and pandemonium we are living through, especially in the Age of Social Media. C’mon, have you ever checked your ex’s Facebook page? Perhaps thumbed through their Instagram, or hit them up anonymously…
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Catch Up With Director Lynn Roth Plus 919 Film Fest: Q & A Zoom Event April 16
By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Director Lynn Roth, who is among Showtime’s first female TV showrunners for “The Paper Chase,” will join a 919 Film Festival Q & A for her film THE LITTLE TRAITOR on April 16 via Zoom. This streaming event is open to the public, and is hosted by the Chapel Hill, NC,…
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Director Peter Bogdanovich’s Own Plot Thickens on TCM’s Podcast
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Apparently the late Robert Evans isn’t the only kid who stays in the picture business, as storied director Peter Bogdanovich, 80, gives him a run for the money on TCM’s “The Plot Thickens” podcast bowing on April 28. Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, grandson of Herman J. Mankiewicz AKA writer of…
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Max Von Sydow Honored March 9 With Rare Archival Interview
by Screenmancer Staff With the passing of Swedish actor Max Von Sydow on March 9, 2020, a rare exclusive interview… THIS INTERVIEW FIRST APPEARED IN “VENICE” MAGAZINE AS A COVER STORY BY QUENDRITH JOHNSON. “He’s in Room 652,” the Concierge at The Beverly Regent whispers, “go right on up.” This unnecessary whispering highlights the fact that…
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