Awards countdown video: When Jessica met Kirsten
Kirsten Johnson, whose Dick Johnson is Dead was nominated for the Feature Doc Oscar in 2021, spoke to Jessica Kingdon about her 2022 Oscar-shortlisted film Ascension, which explores cinematically the pursuit of the ‘Chinese Dream’. “I can feel your pleasure as filmmakers and cinematographers in particular, and also I have to say I do think it’s really an ode to the great art of documentary producing,” said Kirsten.
FYC chat: Hollywoodgate: Ibrahim Nash’at and Simon Lereng Wilmont
Egyptian journalist and filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at discusses his multi award-winning feature debut Hollywoodgate with Danish Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont (A House Made of Splinters, 2022). With unprecedented access to one of the most secretive cabals in the world - the Taliban - the film begins on the day after the last US soldier left Afghanistan in 2021 and follows a group of Taliban leaders in their first year back in power.
