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  • Inspired by writer ERIC SCHLOSSER’s Fast Food Nation, new documentary Food, Inc lifts the veil on the food industry. Film journalist Jan Gilbert caught up with Schlosser during his recent trip to London where he chatted about veggie libel laws, the huge cost of legal bills, and Polish hog factories.         MMM: How much of an issue was finding funding to make Food, Inc Schlosser: Funding was a difficulty because we really...

    Eric Schlosser (writer, producer) – Food, Inc

    Inspired by writer ERIC SCHLOSSER’s Fast Food Nation, new documentary Food, Inc lifts the veil on the food industry. Film journalist Jan Gilbert caught up with Schlosser during his recent trip to London where he chatted about veggie libel laws, the huge cost of legal bills, and Polish hog factories.         MMM: How much of an issue was finding funding to make Food, Inc Schlosser: Funding was a difficulty because we really...

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  • British documentary filmmaker DAVID SINGTON has an enviable track record, with a host of producer credits for prime-time factual programmes broadcast around the world, a Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism, and a Grierson Award for Best Science Documentary to his name. Sington talks to film journalist Jan Gilbert about his film In the Shadow of the Moon, which won the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and brings together...

    David Sington (writer-director-producer) – In the Shadow of the Moon

    British documentary filmmaker DAVID SINGTON has an enviable track record, with a host of producer credits for prime-time factual programmes broadcast around the world, a Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism, and a Grierson Award for Best Science Documentary to his name. Sington talks to film journalist Jan Gilbert about his film In the Shadow of the Moon, which won the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and brings together...

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  • Leading British producer STEPHEN WOOLLEY has spent a lifetime steeped in movies, from tearing cinema tickets in 1970s London to producing a string of award-winning box-office hits including The Crying Game and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Film journalist Jan Gilbert catches up with Woolley to find out about Sounds Like Teen Spirit, an irresistible feel-good film which follows four young singer-songwriters from across Europe on their road to the Junior Eurovision finals....

    Stephen Woolley (producer) – Sounds Like Teen Spirit

    Leading British producer STEPHEN WOOLLEY has spent a lifetime steeped in movies, from tearing cinema tickets in 1970s London to producing a string of award-winning box-office hits including The Crying Game and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Film journalist Jan Gilbert catches up with Woolley to find out about Sounds Like Teen Spirit, an irresistible feel-good film which follows four young singer-songwriters from across Europe on their road to the Junior Eurovision finals....

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  • For movie producer NICK JONES, Christmastime means one thing: King’s College Choir. When Jones was growing up in Vancouver, Canada, the choir’s albums always provided the soundtrack to his family’s festive season. So in 1992 when he moved to Cambridge to study law at St John’s College, he grabbed the opportunity to see the choir perform live. Now Jones has his own Christmas offering with new movie Nativity! And he’s hoping it becomes as much...

    Nick Jones (producer) – Nativity!

    For movie producer NICK JONES, Christmastime means one thing: King’s College Choir. When Jones was growing up in Vancouver, Canada, the choir’s albums always provided the soundtrack to his family’s festive season. So in 1992 when he moved to Cambridge to study law at St John’s College, he grabbed the opportunity to see the choir perform live. Now Jones has his own Christmas offering with new movie Nativity! And he’s hoping it becomes as much...

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  • ROBERT DE NIRO and producer ART LINSON chat about their film What Just Happened?, the pressures of producing, terrible test screenings, and biting the hand that feeds. MMM: Your book, which the film’s based on, is subtitled Bitter Tales from the Hollywood Front Line, but the movie is more bittersweet, more comedic. Why did you decide to go that particular way? Linson: Bitter to me is usually funny – everybody has a different sense of...

    Robert De Niro (actor) & Art Linson (producer) – What Just Happened?

    ROBERT DE NIRO and producer ART LINSON chat about their film What Just Happened?, the pressures of producing, terrible test screenings, and biting the hand that feeds. MMM: Your book, which the film’s based on, is subtitled Bitter Tales from the Hollywood Front Line, but the movie is more bittersweet, more comedic. Why did you decide to go that particular way? Linson: Bitter to me is usually funny – everybody has a different sense of...

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