Interviews
Immerse yourself in behind the scene brilliance with The Skinny’s film interviews. Directors, actors, musicians, and more share their stories and artistic approaches to film. You’ll also find interviews with film festival producers.
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InterviewsHippFest: Dan Abrahams and Philippe Boudot on scoring Finis Terræ
Dan Abrahams and Philippe Boudot discuss their latest collaboration, a new folk-tinged score to Jean Epstein’s landmark experimental drama Finis Terræ, which they will be debuting live at this year's HippFest Read more »| 12 Mar 2026 -
InterviewsBi Gan on Resurrection
We are living in the Bi Gan era! This hugely talented Chinese filmmaker discusses his latest work, Resurrection, a dazzling epic spanning the history of cinema Read more »| 10 Mar 2026 -
InterviewsHlynur Pálmason on The Love That Remains
Hlynur Pálmason's fourth feature is an idiosyncratic look at a family in crisis that's set over four seasons and regularly drifts from the quotidian to the surreal. The Icelandic writer-director discusses his unique approach to filmmaking Read more »| 10 Mar 2026 -
InterviewsGlasgow Short Film Festival: James Ley on Sleazy Tiger
Celebrated playwright James Ley discusses his debut short film, Sleazy Tiger, ahead of it competing in the Scottish Competition at the Glasgow Short Film Festival. We discuss queer crisis, flagrant film references and a horny Alan Cumming Read more »| 10 Mar 2026 -
ArtCCA Glasgow: What We've Lost
With the CCA in Glasgow now in liquidation, its staff left jobless, and its windows boarded up, we speak to some of the artists and programmers who use this space and ask what we've lost in the wreckage and what we can salvage if the CCA returns Read more »| 05 Mar 2026 -
Interviews"Hope is a Privilege": Raoul Peck on Orwell 2+2=5
In Orwell 2+2=5, Raoul Peck uses the life and writing of George Orwell as the connective tissue to tell a wider history of totalitarian power and media manipulation, past and present. We find out more from this trenchant political filmmaker Read more »| 02 Mar 2026
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InterviewsSeán Dunn on The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Edinburgh-born, New York-based filmmaker Seán Dunn discusses his new comedy, The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, the use of Scotland as a Hollywood backdrop and finding inspiration on a Harry Potter tour Read more »| 25 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsOliver Laxe on survivalist road movie Sirāt
Sirāt takes audiences on a wild, nerve-jangling journey through the Moroccan desert. Its director, Oliver Laxe, tells us that it was important that his survivalist road movie provided an existential trip as well as an intensely physical one Read more »| 23 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsNew GFF head Paul Gallagher on the future of Glasgow Film Festival
Paul Gallagher, the long-time programmer at Glasgow Film Theatre, recently took over as Head of Programme for all of Glasgow Film's operations, which include the annual festival. We chat to him about his hopes for GFF ahead of his first edition in charge Read more »| 19 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsKleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent
Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, The Secret Agent has been a huge success for its talented director, Kleber Mendonça Filho. Even world leaders are taking notice of it! The Brazilian filmmaker tells us more Read more »| 17 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsFelipe Bustos Sierra on Everybody to Kenmure Street
The Kenmure Street protest of 2021 saw a community save two of their neighbours from deportation through solidarity and collective action. Felipe Bustos Sierra's film Everybody to Kenmure Street immortalises this special day in Glasgow's history Read more »| 12 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsHasan Hadi on The President’s Cake
Hasan Hadi’s directorial debut, The President’s Cake, sees a young girl go on an odyssey to bake Saddam Hussein a cake. Hadi explains why it was imperative that the film be shot in Iraq and his ambitions for it to encourage more filmmaking in the country Read more »| 10 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsKaouther Ben Hania on The Voice of Hind Rajab
The murder of five-year-old Hind Rajab by IDF soldiers shook filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania to her core. She tells us why she felt it was her responsibility to tell Hind's story as a devastating piece of cinema Read more »| 13 Jan 2026 -
InterviewsBen Wheatley on micro-budget sci-fi BULK
Ben Wheatley went from big-budget Hollywood behemoth Meg 2: The Trench to his new film BULK, a micro-budget wonder that he's taking on tour across the UK. This protean filmmaker discusses the freedom he finds in making sci-fi on a shoestring Read more »| 07 Jan 2026 -
InterviewsMeet FilmHub Scotland's New Producers
Every year, FilmHub Scotland selects four Scotland-based film programmers to be their New Producers, a scheme that teams early-career film producers with established film organisations for training and mentoring. We meet this year's cohort Read more »| 12 Dec 2025