Audio Archive

  • Director BERTRAND TAVERNIER returns to historical drama with his latest big-screen outing, THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER. Adapted from a short story by Madame de La Fayette and set in 1562, MONTPENSIER is a tale of the passions and tragic fate of a rich heiress of a French kingdom under threat in the Wars of Religion. Click on the audio files below to hear Tavernier talk to film journalist Jan Gilbert about why a story written...

    Bertrand Tavernier – The Princess of Montpensier

    Director BERTRAND TAVERNIER returns to historical drama with his latest big-screen outing, THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER. Adapted from a short story by Madame de La Fayette and set in 1562, MONTPENSIER is a tale of the passions and tragic fate of a rich heiress of a French kingdom under threat in the Wars of Religion. Click on the audio files below to hear Tavernier talk to film journalist Jan Gilbert about why a story written...

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  • NAOMIE HARRIS (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll) brings the real life of Kenyan head teacher Jane Obinchu to the big screen in her latest film, THE FIRST GRADER. The film is based on the true story of 84-year-old Mau Mau warrior Maruge, who fought long and hard for the right to receive the free education that the Kenyan government promised all its citizens. Click on the audio files below to hear Harris talk to film...

    Naomie Harris – The First Grader

    NAOMIE HARRIS (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll) brings the real life of Kenyan head teacher Jane Obinchu to the big screen in her latest film, THE FIRST GRADER. The film is based on the true story of 84-year-old Mau Mau warrior Maruge, who fought long and hard for the right to receive the free education that the Kenyan government promised all its citizens. Click on the audio files below to hear Harris talk to film...

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  • Spanish director GUILLEM MORALES chats about his second feature film JULIA’S EYES, a psychological thriller about a woman who starts to lose her sight after she discovers that her twin sister’s death may not be such an open-and-shut case as the police seem to think. Click on the audio file below to hear Morales talk about working with Guillermo del Toro, the unconscious influences on his work, and why Julia’s Eyes could be the first...

    Guillem Morales – Julia’s Eyes

    Spanish director GUILLEM MORALES chats about his second feature film JULIA’S EYES, a psychological thriller about a woman who starts to lose her sight after she discovers that her twin sister’s death may not be such an open-and-shut case as the police seem to think. Click on the audio file below to hear Morales talk about working with Guillermo del Toro, the unconscious influences on his work, and why Julia’s Eyes could be the first...

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  • Louise Bourgoin as Adele Blanc-Sec Director LUC BESSON (Leon, The Fifth Element) transports us to early 20th-century Paris in his latest big-screen outing, ADELE BLANC-SEC. Adapted by Besson from the comic books of Jacques Tardi, the film follows a young novelist on her fantastic adventures with newly-hatched pterodactyls and recently resurrected mummies. Click on the audio file below to hear Besson chat to film journalist Jan Gilbert about falling in love with Adele Blanc-Sec, why...

    Luc Besson – Adele Blanc-Sec

    Louise Bourgoin as Adele Blanc-Sec Director LUC BESSON (Leon, The Fifth Element) transports us to early 20th-century Paris in his latest big-screen outing, ADELE BLANC-SEC. Adapted by Besson from the comic books of Jacques Tardi, the film follows a young novelist on her fantastic adventures with newly-hatched pterodactyls and recently resurrected mummies. Click on the audio file below to hear Besson chat to film journalist Jan Gilbert about falling in love with Adele Blanc-Sec, why...

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  • British screenwriter TOM WILLIAMS, whose first feature film CHALET GIRL was released in the UK in March, was recently at the London Comedy Writers Festival to give his advice on “Writing a Successful Comedy Spec Script”. Click on the audio file below to hear Williams talk about how he pitched Chalet Girl, what he’s learned from making his first film, and working on his new script. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

    Tom Williams (screenwriter) – London Comedy Writers Festival

    British screenwriter TOM WILLIAMS, whose first feature film CHALET GIRL was released in the UK in March, was recently at the London Comedy Writers Festival to give his advice on “Writing a Successful Comedy Spec Script”. Click on the audio file below to hear Williams talk about how he pitched Chalet Girl, what he’s learned from making his first film, and working on his new script. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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  • British writer-director DEBBIE ISITT and actor JASON WATKINS join forces for the second time on Christmas movie NATIVITY! Like their first collaboration Confetti, Nativity! is improvised by its stars including Watkins (Being Human), Martin Freeman (The Office), Ashley Jensen (Ugly Betty), and Marc Wootton (Shirley Ghostman). Watkins plays actor-turned-teacher Gordon Shakespeare who indulges his love of the theatre by staging his school’s nativity play each year. While Shakespeare’s efforts are always greeted with success, fellow...

    Jason Watkins & Debbie Isitt – Nativity!

    British writer-director DEBBIE ISITT and actor JASON WATKINS join forces for the second time on Christmas movie NATIVITY! Like their first collaboration Confetti, Nativity! is improvised by its stars including Watkins (Being Human), Martin Freeman (The Office), Ashley Jensen (Ugly Betty), and Marc Wootton (Shirley Ghostman). Watkins plays actor-turned-teacher Gordon Shakespeare who indulges his love of the theatre by staging his school’s nativity play each year. While Shakespeare’s efforts are always greeted with success, fellow...

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  • When WARWICK THORNTON sat down to write his first feature film, Samson & Delilah, he wanted not only to make a beautiful film, but also to highlight the neglect of aboriginal teenagers like his characters who are viewed as nothing but trouble by their communities and government. With six Australian Inside Film Awards and the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or under his belt, it looks like he’s succeeded. My Movie Mundo caught up with Thornton...

    Warwick Thornton (writer-director-cinematographer) – Samson & Delilah

    When WARWICK THORNTON sat down to write his first feature film, Samson & Delilah, he wanted not only to make a beautiful film, but also to highlight the neglect of aboriginal teenagers like his characters who are viewed as nothing but trouble by their communities and government. With six Australian Inside Film Awards and the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or under his belt, it looks like he’s succeeded. My Movie Mundo caught up with Thornton...

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  • Cuba, an isolated island of 11 million people, has dominated the world of Olympic boxing for the past 40 years, notching up 63 medals including 32 gold. Just how this impoverished country achieved such results was unknown outside Cuba until first-time British director ANDREW LANG gained unprecedented access to the Havana Boxing Academy to make his film Sons of Cuba. The hand-picked group of 10-year-old boys who attend the Academy eat, breath, and sleep boxing. Lang’s film...

    Andrew Lang (director-producer) – Sons of Cuba

    Cuba, an isolated island of 11 million people, has dominated the world of Olympic boxing for the past 40 years, notching up 63 medals including 32 gold. Just how this impoverished country achieved such results was unknown outside Cuba until first-time British director ANDREW LANG gained unprecedented access to the Havana Boxing Academy to make his film Sons of Cuba. The hand-picked group of 10-year-old boys who attend the Academy eat, breath, and sleep boxing. Lang’s film...

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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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  • From English student, to English teacher, to English set text. Film journalist Jan Gilbert finds out what’s next for author NICK HORNBY. When Cambridge University graduate Nick Hornby taught English at the city’s Parkside Community College, he had no idea that one day pupils would be studying his novels. It all started in 1992 with Hornby’s autobiographical tale Fever Pitch, a story of football fandom. For his latest film, An Education, Hornby has adapted another...

    Nick Hornby (writer) – An Education

    From English student, to English teacher, to English set text. Film journalist Jan Gilbert finds out what’s next for author NICK HORNBY. When Cambridge University graduate Nick Hornby taught English at the city’s Parkside Community College, he had no idea that one day pupils would be studying his novels. It all started in 1992 with Hornby’s autobiographical tale Fever Pitch, a story of football fandom. For his latest film, An Education, Hornby has adapted another...

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