Interviews

Brazilian actor, director and producer Bárbara Paz can remember exactly when she decided she had to make Babenco: Tell Me When I Die, her documentary about her late husband, the legendary filmmaker Hector Babenco (1946-2016), chosen as Brazil’s Foreign-language Oscar candidate.

Daniel Gordon freely admits to Business Doc Europe that he had never heard of Australian Rules football star Adam Goodes before he started work on his new feature documentary The Australian Dream, recently nominated for a British Independent Film Award.

A Vida em Comum (Life in Common) tells of the sustainable lifestyle within a poor community on the outskirts of Lisbon, where self-made houses and domiciles are now threatened with demolition. Director Diogo Filipe talked to BDE after the film's world-premiere.

In 'O que não se vê' ('What you don’t see') Portuguese director Paulo Abreu returns to a project he put to one side after the death of his friend and collaborator, turning it into something altogether different during lockdown.

André Guiomar’s feature doc charts the lives of residents within Porto’s doomed Aleixo social housing project, as they prepare for its demolition and their own relocation. The film world-premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020.

Last week Alina Gorlova’s This Rain Will Never Stop won the IDFA First Appearance award, as well as the main prize at Festival Dei Popoli. The winning filmmaker talks aliens, life cycles and the power of film to unite, to Business Doc Europe.

The Irish Irish may have come to love The Pogues' Shane MacGowan, but the London Irish were his first parishioners, the sons and daughters of the great diaspora of the 1950 and 60s. Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan opens Dec 4 in the UK.

Going back to basics in order to understand economic mechanisms is a laudable intention, and one that director Carmen Losmann tackles with vigour, humour and a genuine sense of curiosity in her feature-length doc.

Vienna-based Moldovan director Pavel Cuzuioc talks to Business Doc Europe about his second feature doc 'Please Hold The Line', which screens in Best of Fests.

Prolific Icelandic filmmakers Anní Olafsdottir (IDFAcademy 2020) and Andri Snær Magnason brief BDE on their current, highly pertinent, creative docs whose content and production have been either informed or affected by lockdown.