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 MAN ON WIRE, a conversation with James Marsh
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. Aided by a team of friends and accomplices, ....
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 "I create each shot as a painting, a painting that moves", Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry. Accused of being a 'porno auteuriste', Breillat allowed for an unbiased view of sexuality and extended the language of mainstream movies. She is also a best-selling novelist and wrote her first novel, L'Homme Facile, at the age of 17. Breillat acted in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1982) and wrote the screenplay for ....
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 An Interview With Cassandra Hepburn
An amazingly versatile actress who has had her beginnings at the age of 11, in Stephen King’s, “The Stand”, Cassandra Hepburn has been gaining a plethora of experience in the industry for over a decade, appearing in both independent and mainstream productions ranging from Sidney Lumet’s, “Find Me Guilty”, to roles on TV’s “Young and The Restless”, “Medium”, and “Days of Our Lives” to now features such as Quentin ....
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 An interview with Tannishtha Chatterjee, main actress of BRICK LANE
Tannishtha Chatterjee is emerging as one of India’s leading art house actresses. Her film credits include Shadows of Time (2004) directed by Oscar winning German director Florian Gallenberger and Swaraj (2002), for which she gained a National Best Supporting Actress nomination. Other award winning features which have screened globally are: Let the Wind Blow (2004), an Indo-French venture; Bas Yun Hi (2003); Strings; Divorce: Not Between Husband and Wife (2005); and Kasturi. ....
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 Sarah Gavron talks about BRICK LANE
Brick Lane is story of Nazneen’s life, a girl is turned upside down at the tender age of seventeen,. Forced intoan arranged marriage to an older man; she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London’s East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. Told from birth that she must not ....
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