First feature Archive

  • 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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  • Kakera: A Piece of Our Life is Japanese writer-director MOMOKO ANDO’s first feature film. Based on the manga Love Vibes by Erika Sakurazawa, the film follows the lives of two very different young women who meet by chance in a cafe. The more shy college student Haru gets to know Riko, a confident medical artist, the more she starts to see life differently. But will that include dumping her two-timing boyfriend and giving her new relationship...

    Momoko Ando (writer-director) – Kakera: A Piece of Our Life

    Kakera: A Piece of Our Life is Japanese writer-director MOMOKO ANDO’s first feature film. Based on the manga Love Vibes by Erika Sakurazawa, the film follows the lives of two very different young women who meet by chance in a cafe. The more shy college student Haru gets to know Riko, a confident medical artist, the more she starts to see life differently. But will that include dumping her two-timing boyfriend and giving her new relationship...

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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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  • Actor and musician RIZ AHMED (The Road to Guantanamo) talks about his latest film Shifty, an urban drama which follows 24 hours in the life of a young drug dealer. MMM: Your character’s based on a real person. Did you get to meet the man in question? Ahmed: No, I didn’t meet him. The idea was based on true-life characters and true-life stories, but I think ultimately the Shifty of this film is a composite...

    Riz Ahmed (actor) – Shifty

    Actor and musician RIZ AHMED (The Road to Guantanamo) talks about his latest film Shifty, an urban drama which follows 24 hours in the life of a young drug dealer. MMM: Your character’s based on a real person. Did you get to meet the man in question? Ahmed: No, I didn’t meet him. The idea was based on true-life characters and true-life stories, but I think ultimately the Shifty of this film is a composite...

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  • ERAN CREEVY’s first feature film, Shifty, is an urban drama following 24 hours in the life of a young drug dealer. Creevy chats about blagging his way into the film business, writing from experience, and his ambitions to be the next Michael Mann. MMM: I believe there’s a living breathing inspiration for Shifty… Creevy: I grew up in a place called Harlow in Essex, which is a new town built after the Second World War....

    Eran Creevy (writer-director) – Shifty

    ERAN CREEVY’s first feature film, Shifty, is an urban drama following 24 hours in the life of a young drug dealer. Creevy chats about blagging his way into the film business, writing from experience, and his ambitions to be the next Michael Mann. MMM: I believe there’s a living breathing inspiration for Shifty… Creevy: I grew up in a place called Harlow in Essex, which is a new town built after the Second World War....

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