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Mark Peranson is the editor and publisher of the magazine Cinema Scope and has been a programming associate for the Vancouver International Film Festival since 1999. In 2008 he directed Waiting for Sancho, a making-of documentary on Albert Serra’s film El cant dels ocells. He has been a programmer for the Festival del film Locarno since 2010. He is also a director, writer, and producer. In his latest effort Peranson teamed up with Filipino director Raya Martin to make La Ultima Pelicula, a film about making the last movie during the Mayan apocalypse (a sort of remake of Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie).

Interviews Stephen-Brommer
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Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker and film preservationist. He holds a BFA in Film and Video Production, an MA in Film Studies, and is presently engaged in writing his doctoral dissertation, on the fate of the Canadian experimental film. He has given public presentations of his film restoration work at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canadian Film Institute, and the Pleasure Dome (Toronto).

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Rasha Salti is a curator/writer and is currently the international features programmer (Africa and the Middle East) for the Toronto International Film Festival. Earlier in 2013, Ms. Salti curated Rebel Yell: A New Generation of Turkish Women Filmmakers, a selection of powerful and intimate films that exhibited the social, economic, and cultural climate in Turkey through the eyes of nine female filmmakers. She took some time out of her busy schedule this week and granted Next Projection an interview.

Interviews programmer_brad
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While working in the TIFF Adult Learning Department this past summer, I learned about the many programmes TIFF offers and the initiatives that motivate their productions. Being from Vancouver—knowing only of VIFF—I had no idea what year long festival programming would be like. Even now, after living in Toronto for a year, completing a Cinema Studies Masters degree and interning at TIFF, there are areas of TIFF programming that I am continually learning about. The scope of TIFF is phenomenal and incomparable. This interview is to help the general TIFF patron to better understand one specific area of TIFF: The Cinematheque.

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Nikola Curcin, the writer-director of the new film Adriatico My Love, a story of romance and familial bonds set in the beautiful Mediterranean region of the title. This is Curcin’s third film, following 1987’s Sentimental Journey and 1997’s My Script Doctor. He and I spoke about his casting decisions, his love for the region that gives the film its setting, his passion for the local food, and how Bernardo Bertolucci influenced the film.

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I haven’t been a reviewer for long however, I have been an avid movie watcher and film student for what seems like forever. For some, film watching becomes an absolute love where you time your week around your favorite movie theatre schedule. Like a writer, a filmgoer becomes seasoned and at a good film, becomes transformed somewhat by the experience. Thinking on it, it was a treat to be sitting in the audience for the In Conversation With Johnnie To.

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Inigo Westmeier is a filmmaker’s documentarian, not= a journalist with a shakey-cam, but a cameraman, a cinematographer, someone who understands the medium first and his subjects second. I talked to him about his feature debut, an exquisite portrait of young girls training in martial arts at China’s prestigious Shaolin Tagu Kung Fu School.

Interviews Blackfish
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the Director/Writer/Producer of Blackfish, a film that generated a lot of buzz after premiering at Sundance Film Festival. Gabriela captures the essence of humility and humbleness. I could tell she is still surprised by the amount of praise she receives for her efforts with Blackfish. We learned that she has been a documentary filmmaker for 14 years; all of her hard work has paid off. This is a filmmaker you need to add to your radar, she has more in the works!

Interviews The-Way-Way-Back_Press
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The last two or three years have been busy ones for Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. In addition to working in front of the camera (Ben & Kate for Faxon, Community for Rash), they shared the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with writer-director Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt, Election) for The Descendants. Since then, Faxon and Rash decided to turn their writing talents to an original screenplay, The Way, Way Back, and to make things slightly more interesting, to direct as well. During their brief stopover in San Francisco, we talked everything from Community getting renewed for a fifth, improbable season, to winning the aforementioned Academy Award, to the differences between adapting source material from another medium and writing an original screenplay, to character development, and casting The Way, Way Back with some of the better (if not the best) comedic actors of their (and our) generation.

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