features archive

Soldiering On

Indian auteur, Deepa Mehta, talks about the epic and often challenging road in bringing her latest feature, ‘Midnight’s Children’ to life.
June 20, 2013 11:56
Moving Pictures

Australia’s greatest behind the scenes movie talent is working on a stage play.
June 13, 2013 14:13
Family Honour

FilmInk speaks to Kurdish-Norwegian filmmaker, Hisham Zaman, about his epic six-years-in-the-making drama ‘Before Snowfall’, which asks how far one man will go to restore honour to his family.
June 7, 2013 16:24
Quiet Ignorance

FilmInk speaks to producer and star, Kiki Sugino, about Nobuteru Uchida’s ‘Odayaka’, which addresses the internal devastation of Japan in the wake of the 2011 natural disasters.
June 7, 2013 15:09
On Tour

FilmInk speaks to Tom Berninger about the funny and touching ‘Mistaken For Strangers’, a doco which sees the filmmaker turn the camera on his brother’s band, The National… and himself.
June 5, 2013 17:11
Beating The Odds

FilmInk sits down with producer, Anson Hartford, behind ‘Ping Pong’, a doco that’s equally funny and moving, and chronicles the over 80s table tennis world championships through the eyes of eight veterans.
June 4, 2013 14:03
Spreading The Word

FilmInk speaks to the admirable young man at the centre of the documentary ‘Buckskin’, which is screening in competition at Sydney Film Festival and chronicles an attempt to keep one’s roots alive.
May 31, 2013 12:51
A Changing World

FilmInk speaks to festival director, Fadia Abboud, about what audiences can expect from the 10th Arab Film Festival.
May 30, 2013 11:41
The Original ‘Homeland’

FilmInk speaks to Gideon Raff, the creator behind the compelling but controversial Israeli series ‘Prisoners of War’, which provided the inspiration for the hit US series, ‘Homeland’.
May 30, 2013 10:19
Fringe Cinema, Fringe Community

FilmInk speaks to director Sean Dunne and one of the subjects from ‘Oxyana’, a heartbreaking doco that captures a small mining town’s transformation into a hellhole of drugs and crime.
May 29, 2013 15:15
The Road Less Travelled

Co-directors Kirsten Mallyon and John Cherry's revelatory documentary, ‘The Unlikely Pilgrims’ follows four individuals on an epic 800km trek, but this quartet is far from your usual hikers.
May 29, 2013 10:58
Rising To The Challenge

Young actor, Tom Holland, dug deep for his role in the family survival tale, ‘The Impossible’ and delivered an incredible performance, witnessed firsthand by Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor.
May 27, 2013 17:26
Into The Arctic

FilmInk speaks to Michael Angus, the documentarian behind ‘Nothing on Earth’, who heads deep into the Arctic, seeking inspiration in a stunningly featureless and sometimes unforgiving landscape.
May 27, 2013 17:06
Reading Between The Lines

FilmInk speaks to co-stars, Julianne Moore and Michael Angarano, about the indie comedy, ‘The English Teacher’ which sees a teacher and student step outside their comfort zone.
May 24, 2013 17:01
Family Portrait

FilmInk’s Danny Peary speaks to the co-directors behind the intimate doco ‘The Genius of Marian’, which explores the tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease via a family lens.
May 24, 2013 15:10
Defying the Odds

Australian actor Grant Bowler has stepped into a whole new world, headlining the ambitious sci-fi series, ‘Defiance’, which has been boldly adapted from a video game
May 21, 2013 16:48
Childhood Trauma

FilmInk speaks to the writer/director and two young stars behind the haunting coming of age drama, ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’, one of the most warmly received films to emerge from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival
May 21, 2013 16:11
Power To The People

At the recent Tribeca Film Festival, FilmInk sat down with the co-directors, Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar, behind ‘Powerless’, an eye-opening doco that explores the electricity struggle threatening to tear India apart.
May 21, 2013 16:06
Winter Weirdness

Melbourne movie geeks can expect some wild and wonderful evenings this winter, with the launch of a brand new late night line-up at Cinema Nova in Carlton.
May 20, 2013 11:13
Back On The Road

One of Australia’s most important films, ‘Wrong Side Of The Road’, is set to screen at The Sydney Film Festival in a brand new, fully restored print courtesy of The National Film And Sound Archive.
May 15, 2013 12:18