All posts by Jennifer Blair
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Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival 2018: Boundary-Pushing International Fare Thrives Amid Foliage of Upstate New York
A sleepy college town in late fall. Changing leaves and crisp air. It’s a peaceful autumn idyll for some, a John Carpenter-esque... -
Flash Forward: Jorge Lendeborg Jr. is Building a Promising Career With Good Instincts and His Family’s Steadfast Support
“I just always loved and enjoyed watching movies,” says Jorge Lendeborg Jr. of how he got bit by the proverbial bug. “My dad would... -
“Do Something That Doesn’t Bore the Crap Out Of You”: How Rust Creek Dir. Jen McGowan Avoided a Cookie Cutter Career
“I make material that I find interesting,” says director Jen McGowan. “I’m a feminist, so those themes are present, but I like... -
Embracing Change: Director Kendall Goldberg On Her Feature Debut When Jeff Tried to Save the World
“I am a creature of habit,” says When Jeff Tried to Save the World director Kendall Goldberg. “But while I was writing... -
“The Best Approach is a Calm Approach”: Welcome to Mercy Screenwriter and Star Kristen Ruhlin on Forging Your Own Moviemaking Path
Kristen Ruhlin knows a thing or two about perseverance. The screenwriter and star of Welcome to Mercy—a trippy dive into the exorcism... -
Novel Ideas: Moviemakers Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair on Adapting a Book for the Screen and Building Atmosphere
In September, director Jeremy Saulnier and screenwriter Macon Blair attended Fantastic Fest 2018 to present Hold the Dark—a fully-immersive cinematic adaptation of... -
Fantastic Fest 2018: Peak Programming and Premieres and a Self-Reflective Tone Shape the Austin Hotspot’s 13th Year
At its heart, Fantastic Fest is not simply a film festival: It’s a weeklong experience of controlled extremity, in which audiences are... -
Stayin’ Alive: What Keeps You Alive‘s Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen on Surviving a Career Wearing Multiple Hats
Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen are no strangers to multitasking. Now on the road with What Keeps You Alive, the Canadian duo... -
Fantasia International Film Festival 2018: Michael Ironside Talks Dune, Verhoeven, and Telekinesis in the Family
Few personalities encapsulate the brilliantly mad spirit of genre cinema more completely than Canadian actor Michael Ironside. In attendance at the Fantasia... -
Fantasia International Film Festival 2018: Five Moviemakers Talk Genre Films in Montréal
“I’m not joking when I say that Fantasia was our film school,” says François Simard of the Canadian directing trio RKSS, who were in...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...