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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InterviewsEIFF 2023: Babak Jalali on Fremont
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival closes with Babak Jalali's Fremont. Jalali tells about his desire to make a film with empathy and compassion, but without the schmaltz Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsSam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping on Femme
Directors Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping explore myriad modes of masculinity in their bristling queer thriller Femme, which sees a drag artist out to exact revenge on a homophobic thug Read more »| 31 Jul 2023 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Mark Cousins on My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
The prolific Mark Cousins returns with the mischievous documentary My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock, which sees Hitchcock looking back and commenting on his vast career. Cousins tells us how he found a fresh approach to discussing this storied filmmaker Read more »| 18 Jul 2023 -
InterviewsA New Wave: Johnny Barrington on Silent Roar
Johnny Barrington's Silent Roar is a disarmingly leftfield coming-of-age drama that makes evocative use of its setting on the Isle of Lewis. We chat with Barrington ahead of his film's premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 12 Jul 2023 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Simone Smith on The Möbius Trip
Glasgow filmmaker Simone Smith talks us through her stunning new short The Möbius Trip and her drive to make bold, uninhibited work Read more »| 07 Jun 2023 -
InterviewsTom Hardiman on one-shot whodunnit Medusa Deluxe
Medusa Deluxe, a delirious murder mystery set at a hairdressing competition, is the most original British film of the year. We chat to director Tom Hardiman about his ingenious whodunnit, which seemingly unfolds in a single-shot Read more »| 31 May 2023
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InterviewsTina Satter on NSA whistleblower thriller Reality
Life proves stranger than fiction in Reality, Tina Satter's gripping real-time thriller about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner. Satter tells us why she wanted to dramatise Winner's life by using verbatim transcripts of her interrogation by the FBI Read more »| 30 May 2023 -
InterviewsDavy Chou on Return to Seoul
In Return to Seoul, Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou tells the story of a Korean adoptee travelling to her homeland. Chou explains how the idea initially sprang from a friend's similar journey but eventually realised how personal the film was Read more »| 02 May 2023 -
InterviewsTick Tick Boom: Meet the team behind How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How to Blow Up a Pipeline might be the most important film of the year. It's certainly the most thrilling. We speak to the director and editor behind this nailbiting eco-thriller that's also a stunning political statement Read more »| 28 Apr 2023 -
InterviewsNida Manzoor on her debut film Polite Society
We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor delivers a knockout with her debut feature film Polite Society, a riotously funny story of sisterly love featuring a heady blend of teen-girl hijinks, heist caper shenanigans and wuxia-style showdowns Read more »| 26 Apr 2023 -
Interviews"A quest for life": Mia Hansen-Løve on One Fine Morning
French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve is back with the delicate, heartbreaking slice-of-life drama One Fine Morning Read more »| 11 Apr 2023 -
InterviewsJulia Parks on her Alchemy residency in Hawick
Julia Parks is the most recent artist to take part in Alchemy Film & Arts' The Teviot, the Flag and the Rich, Rich Soil residency – she enjoyed it so much she's moved to Hawick permanently Read more »| 11 Apr 2023 -
InterviewsMartika Ramirez Escobar on Leonor Will Never Die
In Leonor Will Never Die, a Filipino screenwriter starts to live out her unproduced screenplay – director Martika Ramirez Escobar tells us about her love of action films and her desire to put an older woman in this macho world Read more »| 03 Apr 2023 -
InterviewsUkrainian musicians bring Kyiv love letter to HippFest
Ukrainian duo Roksana Smirnova and Misha Kalinin will be providing a new livescore to the poetic Kyiv documentary In Spring at this year's HippFest. They discuss the experience of representing their nation during its brutal invasion Read more »| 13 Mar 2023 -
InterviewsMeet Me in the Bathroom is a return to 2000s New York
The new documentary Meet Me in the Bathroom is an immersive journey through the cool, scuzzy New York music scene of the early 21st century. We talk to filmmakers Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern Read more »| 08 Mar 2023