Officially Selected Alumni Interviews

Henry Terry & Marcus Brooks: Lift-Off Nominated Season Awards Filmmakers Interview

Filmmakers Henry Terry & Marcus Brooks have been working together for many years and most recently by founding Out The Boot Productions. The Ambitious 220 is a challenge set by Rapha in aid of the charity Ambitious About Autism. The event follows the 220 mile route between Manchester and London. In 2021, Rapha set the […]

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Mickael Bandela: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

Mickael Bandela is a filmmaker based in Paris. He studied at La Femis in the program “L’Atelier Documentaire” before founding his own production company “Ruska films”. He has also worked as an editor for commercial and music videos since 2009. His debut feature documentary One Mother explores the complex relationship between himself, his foster mother,

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Tim Shaughnessy Hansen: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

Tim Shaughnessy Hansen is a Writer and Director from Denmark, currently studying at KBH Film & Fotoskole, Copenhagen. 90 Hours is Tim’s debut short film, and follows troubled teen, David, whose life takes an unexpected turn when he crosses paths with an unassuming priest. After a gas station heist, David is sentenced to 90 hours

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Nanak McCann: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

Nanak McCann is a Filmmaker and Set Designer, who was raised on a hippie commune in Northern California, and spent his teens living in Mexico with his Vietnam-Veteran father. A Rosary and a Diamond Ring is Nanak’s second film, and the story deals heavily with the difficulties of living with PTSD – a subject that

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Rachel Clear Burton & Edie Moles: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

Edie Moles is a queer Art Director from London, and student at Falmouth University, looking to better understand happiness and the human condition through filmmaking. After Art Directing a number of independent short films and feature length projects, she decided to develop Underbelly to explore her personal experiences of identity and autonomy. Edie’s directorial debut, Underbelly,

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Lucas Jones: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

Lucas Jones is a long-time actor and first-time director from Cambridgeshire, and working in London, England. Having worked professionally in front of the camera for almost a decade in a vast array of projects from major franchise films and TV shows to small independent shorts, there are few places he feels more at home than

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Julie Joohee Jeon: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

Julie Joohee Jeon is a first-time director and a film composer who has worked on renowned films based in South Korea. She’s also a singer-songwriter and music director. Growing up in Vancouver, Canada as a Korean-Canadian, Julie has always been passionate about storytelling through the power of music and film. Julie’s directorial debut, Happen to

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Julie Lindhardt: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

  Copenhagen-based filmmaker Julie Lindhardt’s narrative short SIS portrays a divorce experienced through the eyes of the child. In the film, we follow the young girl, Vigga, in her fight to save her beloveddog, Sis, in the middle of her parents’ ugly divorce. The short film takes place over a single hour while they are

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Hanna Jovin: Lift-Off Filmmaker Interview

Toronto based filmmaker Hanna Jovin’s narrative short “Erika” is set in 1940’s Nazi Occupied Bosnia, where an unlikely friendship forms between two young girls on opposite sides of the war. “Erika” screened at Toronto Lift-Off. We interviewed director Hanna to hear a little more about how this film came to be, and her path as a filmmaker. Interview by Sneh

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Erin Richards: Lift-Off Filmmaker Interview

Welsh-native New York Actress and Filmmaker Erin Richards’ narrative short “Hot Girl” follows Kara Quinn, a struggling actress desperate to be seen as anything other than a ‘hot girl.’ After deciding to impersonate Cara Delevingne in order to speak to one of Hollywood’s top agents, she realizes she may not be as powerless as she thinks.

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