Category: Interviews

Roku Jingwen Long is a New York-based filmmaker and Creative Director, known for her emotionally resonant and culturally rich storytelling. Roku’s diverse background and cross-cultural experiences shape her unique narrative style. She specializes in international and cross-cultural film and commercial productions. Her films, including Echoes, Dear Vanessa, and thefashion-sci-fi project Immortal Mind, have received international acclaim, including the official selection by NewFest New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, BAFTA qualifying Bolton International Film Festival,New York Shots International Film Festival, Best Director award from Vesuvius International Film Festival. Currently, she is working on her animated feature Still andsupporting emerging filmmakers as Creative …

Riya Agarwal is a recent graduate from the MFA Graduate Film program at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Previously, she has assisted award-winning directors like Anurag Kashyap (Raman Raghav 2.0 – Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2016), Nandita Das (Manto – Cannes Un Certain Regard 2018), and Oscar- nominated director Ashvin Kumar (No Fathers in Kashmir). Her music video, Yeh Duniya, premiered at the New York Indian Film Festival in 2014. Her latest short film, If You Show Me Yours I’ll Show You Mine, is in Post-Production. She is currently working as an Associate Producer on two feature films in …

Mansoor Laghari was born in Sindh, Pakistan, and later served ten years in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of Specialist. Currently working as a corrections officer in Connecticut, Laghari brings a wealth of experience from his time in the military, coupled with his academic background in political science and government. As a U.S. Army veteran, he possesses a profound understanding of global affairs, security, and human rights. His experiences have shaped his perspective, giving him unique insights into the complexities and challenges of international relations and the human condition. Hi Mansoor, nice to meet you and thanks for …

Line Rainville, a writer from Quebec, Canada, was called upon to adapt her novel onIndigenous culture, which she knows well, into a TV series. She dreams of writing a sci-fiseries. Cargo is the pilot of Alpha Centauri, her first sci-fi TV series. Meteor is the pilot ofPromethium 2122, a work co-written with Franco. Franco Pirrone, an Italian software developer and martial artist, grew up with science fiction.Since the early 70s, he had the good fortune to witness the golden age of classic sciencefiction movies and series. He loves to delve into technology and study space explorationmissions. Meteor is the pilot …

Oyejoke Oke is a female producer/ director / writer of Nigerian descent. She is also the founder and CEO of Black Thread Media, a Nigerian movie production company and the producer and writer of this movie Love Lies and Lasgidi. Hi Oyejoke, nice to meet you and thanks for granting us this interview. How was born your passion for the world of cinema? Black Thread Media is an expression of my passion for the world of cinema, which began with a desire to tell Nigerian and African stories in an authentic yet entertaining way. At Black Thread Media we believe …

Angelo Donzella was born in Turin in 1964. He has three great passions: music, photography and cinema. He has played in some rock bands since 1982 and, since 1983, has been cultivating the art of photography. Since 1993 he has shown his love for cinema, starring in many feature films and short films. The need to express himself through the use of images (borrowed from his love for photography)led him to make his first short film as a director. ISOLATION was created during the 2020 lockdown, with the help of director Roberto Loiacono. Angelo Donzella in this short film, in …

Edwin L. Williams II is an award-winning Actor, Director, Writer and Cinematographer.He has been a filmmaker for 9 years, with an Associate Degree in Performance Acting from KD Conservatory in Dallas, Texas. He was born in Seoul, South Korea, and currently filming out of Dallas, Texas.  Furthermore, he has directed and provided cinematography for over 10 projects ranging from book trailers, short films, webseries, feature films along with original short films. Likewise, he runs a small production company in Dallas, TX called Digital ELW Productions. His personal projects fly under the banner “a Seoul in the Cloud films” honoring his Korean heritage …

Roda Na is a character artist & filmmaker who won in student short of Robinson Film Awards 2021 with her debut film “Larvae Story”. She is from South Korea and currently taking an MFA in 3D Animation & VFX at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication Design at Korea National University of Arts in 2018. Officially, she has worked as a package designer at an LA-based food distribution company and as a manager of design projects at a mobile contents company until 2021, but she has personally created character artwork through illustrations. She started to …

Kris Krainock wears many hats — screenwriter, director, producer, playwright and poet — but if one were to boil him down to one word, you could simply call him a humanist. Krainock has been described as “high concept,” and his work is undoubtedly cloaked in homage to the greats — Bergman’s emotional rawness, Fellini’s fantastical exploration, and Hitchcock’s cerebral sense of mystery are all found in Krainock’s film, television and written work — but he is not afraid to entertain, exploring life and death through trademark erudite philosophizing and pitch-black humor. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5189646/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Hi Kris, nice to meet you and …