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  • Director ANDREW THOMPSON is used to filming in hostile environments, but that was no preparation for the risks involved in making his feature-length documentary MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN in Zimbabwe. The film follows Mike Campbell, a 74-year-old farmer who dares to take Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to an international court over the country’s ‘Land Reform’ policy. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 presidential elections, Mugabe and the White African is a powerful tale...

    Andrew Thompson – Mugabe and the White African

    Director ANDREW THOMPSON is used to filming in hostile environments, but that was no preparation for the risks involved in making his feature-length documentary MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN in Zimbabwe. The film follows Mike Campbell, a 74-year-old farmer who dares to take Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to an international court over the country’s ‘Land Reform’ policy. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 presidential elections, Mugabe and the White African is a powerful tale...

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  • In writer-director JAN DUNN’S third feature film THE CALLING, a young university graduate has to make a difficult decision between the comfortable life set up for her and the longing to fulfil her childhood desire to become a nun. Against the wishes of friends and family, she joins a closed order (Susannah York, Brenda Blethyn, Pauline McLynn, Rita Tushingham). However, things aren’t quite what she expected. DUNN chats to film journalist Jan Gilbert about the coincidences...

    Jan Dunn (writer-director) – The Calling

    In writer-director JAN DUNN’S third feature film THE CALLING, a young university graduate has to make a difficult decision between the comfortable life set up for her and the longing to fulfil her childhood desire to become a nun. Against the wishes of friends and family, she joins a closed order (Susannah York, Brenda Blethyn, Pauline McLynn, Rita Tushingham). However, things aren’t quite what she expected. DUNN chats to film journalist Jan Gilbert about the coincidences...

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  • All Phil Foster (STEVE CARELL) wants is to spice up his weekly night out with wife Claire (Tina Fey). But instead of a fun evening at a hip Manhattan restaurant, what he actually gets is a night on the run from the mob. STEVE CARELL (The Office, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) stars in the rib-tickling action-comedy DATE NIGHT. My Movie Mundo sits down with the funniest, most likeable man in comedy to talk about his own...

    Steve Carell (actor) – Date Night

    All Phil Foster (STEVE CARELL) wants is to spice up his weekly night out with wife Claire (Tina Fey). But instead of a fun evening at a hip Manhattan restaurant, what he actually gets is a night on the run from the mob. STEVE CARELL (The Office, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) stars in the rib-tickling action-comedy DATE NIGHT. My Movie Mundo sits down with the funniest, most likeable man in comedy to talk about his own...

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  • TINA FEY, star of 30 Rock, is the current Queen of the US comedy scene, and she’s got a host of Emmys, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards to prove it. So with her new movie, action-comedy DATE NIGHT out this week, My Movie Mundo caught up with her to talk pole-dancing, rollercoasters, and Sarah Palin. MMM: You and Steve Carell, who plays your on-screen husband, work so well together in Date Night it looks...

    Tina Fey (actor) – Date Night

    TINA FEY, star of 30 Rock, is the current Queen of the US comedy scene, and she’s got a host of Emmys, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards to prove it. So with her new movie, action-comedy DATE NIGHT out this week, My Movie Mundo caught up with her to talk pole-dancing, rollercoasters, and Sarah Palin. MMM: You and Steve Carell, who plays your on-screen husband, work so well together in Date Night it looks...

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  • Director SHAWN LEVY (Night at the Museum) teams up with comedy stars Steve Carell (The Office, Little Miss Sunshine) and Tina Fey (30 Rock, Baby Mama) on his new movie, action-comedy DATE NIGHT. My Movie Mundo chats to Levy about talent wish-lists, working with Carell and Fey, and strange car crashes. MMM: What attracted you to Date Night? And why did you think Steve Carell and Tina Fey would make such a good everyday married...

    Shawn Levy (director) – Date Night

    Director SHAWN LEVY (Night at the Museum) teams up with comedy stars Steve Carell (The Office, Little Miss Sunshine) and Tina Fey (30 Rock, Baby Mama) on his new movie, action-comedy DATE NIGHT. My Movie Mundo chats to Levy about talent wish-lists, working with Carell and Fey, and strange car crashes. MMM: What attracted you to Date Night? And why did you think Steve Carell and Tina Fey would make such a good everyday married...

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  • Producer ARVIND ETHAN DAVID started out as a solicitor before moving into the movie business. Since leaving the law behind he’s founded his own film company, Slingshot, through which he’s about to release his 5th film as a producer, The Infidel. Written by comedian David Baddiel, The Infidel is an identity crisis comedy in which a Muslim man played by Omid Djalili discovers that he’s actually Jewish. My Movie Mundo’s film journalist Jan Gilbert spoke with David about ethnic confusion,...

    Arvind Ethan David (producer) – The Infidel

    Producer ARVIND ETHAN DAVID started out as a solicitor before moving into the movie business. Since leaving the law behind he’s founded his own film company, Slingshot, through which he’s about to release his 5th film as a producer, The Infidel. Written by comedian David Baddiel, The Infidel is an identity crisis comedy in which a Muslim man played by Omid Djalili discovers that he’s actually Jewish. My Movie Mundo’s film journalist Jan Gilbert spoke with David about ethnic confusion,...

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  • Thirty-five years ago when BOB LARBEY’s latest sitcom with writing partner John Esmonde hit the small screen, he had no idea that over three decades later it would still hold such a fond place in the nation’s heart.   That sitcom, which became a British TV comedy classic, was THE GOOD LIFE. Starring Richard Briers as 40-year-old Tom Good and Felicity Kendal as his wife Barbara, the series follows the pair as they pack in...

    Bob Larbey (writer) – The Good Life

    Thirty-five years ago when BOB LARBEY’s latest sitcom with writing partner John Esmonde hit the small screen, he had no idea that over three decades later it would still hold such a fond place in the nation’s heart.   That sitcom, which became a British TV comedy classic, was THE GOOD LIFE. Starring Richard Briers as 40-year-old Tom Good and Felicity Kendal as his wife Barbara, the series follows the pair as they pack in...

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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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  • Dublin mobster Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) is not a good man to owe money to, as Michael (Cillian Murphy) knows only too well. With no means to pay his debt, Michael goes on the run with best friend Brenda (Jodie Whittaker) and dad Jim (Jim Broadbent) in tow. But Irish gangsters don’t give up that easily in Mark O’Rowe’s dark comedy, Perrier’s Bounty. My Movie Mundo met up with actor CILLIAN MURPHY and producers ALAN MOLONEY...

    Cillian Murphy (actor), Alan Moloney (producer), & Elizabeth Karlsen (producer) – Perrier’s Bounty

    Dublin mobster Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) is not a good man to owe money to, as Michael (Cillian Murphy) knows only too well. With no means to pay his debt, Michael goes on the run with best friend Brenda (Jodie Whittaker) and dad Jim (Jim Broadbent) in tow. But Irish gangsters don’t give up that easily in Mark O’Rowe’s dark comedy, Perrier’s Bounty. My Movie Mundo met up with actor CILLIAN MURPHY and producers ALAN MOLONEY...

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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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