Interviews

Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.

7498 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/05/2024. 575 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Caroline Velan  • Producer

"The producer must be able to guide the director and make decisions"

Caroline Velan • Producer

Caroline Velan, Emerging Producer 2016 from Switzerland, represents production company Caravel Production  

08/03/2016

Patricia Drati Rønde  • Producer

"Working with a director on the same wavelength is a real joy"

Patricia Drati Rønde • Producer

Patricia Drati Rønde, Emerging Producer 2016 from Denmark, represents production company Good Company Pictures  

08/03/2016

Tamara Babun  • Producer

"A producer should always be daring"

Tamara Babun • Producer

Tamara Babun, Emerging Producer 2016 from Croatia, represents production company Factum - and talks to us  

08/03/2016

Adrian Sitaru  • Director

"There is never a chance for a second take"

Adrian Sitaru • Director

Illegitimate, Adrian Sitaru’s fourth feature, courageously discusses difficult choices and incest; it had its world premiere in the Berlinale Forum.  

08/03/2016

Francine H Raveney  • Audiovisual consultant/EWA Network head of public relations

“Women directors represent only one in every five films – we want to see a change”

Francine H Raveney • Audiovisual consultant/EWA Network head of public relations

At the Berlin Film Festival, Cineuropa had a chat with Francine H Raveney, of the EWA Network, to discover more about the presence of women in the film industry  

03/03/2016

Irina Andreea Malcea  • Producer

"Put yourself a bit in the director's shoes"

Irina Andreea Malcea • Producer

Irina Andreea Malcea of Luna Film, Emerging Producer 2016 from Romania, provides an enlightening list of features a documentary producer should have  

01/03/2016

Gábor Osváth  • Producer

"It is important for me to be around at the birth of a project"

Gábor Osváth • Producer

Gábor Osváth, Emerging Producer 2016 from Hungary, works for production company Filmfabriq Kft. Cineuropa chatted with him  

01/03/2016

Mário Gajo de Carvalho  • Producer

"What is cinema without emotions?"

Mário Gajo de Carvalho • Producer

Filmes do Gajo's Mário Gajo de Carvalho, Emerging Producer 2016 from Portugal, talks about documentary production and the whole creative process  

01/03/2016

Didier Brunner  • Producer

Folivari aiming to reach new heights

Didier Brunner • Producer

Legendary producer Didier Brunner discusses animated film funding in France as well as the goals for his new production company, Folivari  

01/03/2016

Nicola Zingaretti  • President of the Lazio Region

“Relations between countries are crucial for growing the market”

Nicola Zingaretti • President of the Lazio Region

Whilst in Paris for a tribute to Ettore Scola, Nicola Zingaretti talked to us about funding for international co-productions  

26/02/2016

Michael Ballhaus  • Director of photography

“Working with Fassbinder was a tough school, but a good one”

Michael Ballhaus • Director of photography

BERLIN 2016: DoP Michael Ballhaus, the creator of the 360-degree dolly shot, sat down with Cineuropa at the Berlinale, where he picked up an Honorary Golden...  

26/02/2016

James Spinney, Peter Middleton • Directors

“We want to push the possibilities of accessible cinema”

James Spinney, Peter Middleton • Directors

As the industry searches for ways to increase attendance rates, James Spinney and Peter Middleton demonstrate in Notes on Blindness that there might be one...  

25/02/2016

Thomas Vinterberg • Director

“I had to learn how to navigate human behaviour”

Thomas Vinterberg • Director

BERLIN 2016: In his latest film, The Commune, Danish writer-director Thomas Vinterberg explores the experience of growing up in this particular living...  

25/02/2016

Álvaro Longoria • Director

“I had the constant feeling I was being manipulated”

Álvaro Longoria • Director

Spanish director Álvaro Longoria discusses what his perhaps unprecedented access to North Korea enabled him to achieve in The Propaganda Game  

24/02/2016

Felix Van Groeningen • Director

"A microcosm that shows us the changes underway in society"

Felix Van Groeningen • Director

Cineuropa caught up with Felix van Groeningen, who recently won the Prize for Best Director at Sundance for Belgica, his latest film, which has just been...  

23/02/2016

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