Oscar Chat: James Marsh talks to Matthew Heineman (Retrograde)
Oscar winner James Marsh (Man On Wire, 2008) talks to Matthew Heineman about the powerful new doc Retrograde which captures the final 9 months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives: one of the last U.S. Special Forces units deployed there, a young Afghan general and his corps defending their homeland from the Taliban, and the civilians desperately attempting to flee as the country collapses.
Oscar Chat: Orwa Nyrabia and Margaret Brown (Descendant)
IDFA chief Orwa Nyrabia discusses the Oscar shortlisted Descendant with director Margaret Brown. The films tells the story of the descendants of the last known enslaved Africans who were brought to the United States aboard the ship Clotilda. “How can there be people in my family that I love but who are also racist?” asks Brown, who grew up in Mobile, Alabama. “That's a paradox to me…How do I reckon with that? How do I make art about that?”
