Category: INTERVIEWS

Norwich Film Festival had the privilege of speaking with Hollywood actor Alfred Molina who returns to London this summer to reprise the role of artist Mark Rothko in John Logan’s play Red. This tremendous play is taking place at Wyndham Theatre until the end of July 2018. Molina recalls in our conversation that this is the third incarnation of the play and the fourth time he’s played Rothko.  Whilst discussing this role, he’s clearly very excited about the play and … Continue reading “Interview: Alfred Molina”

Continuing on from our Part 1  Interview with the incredible talent that is Jeremiah O’Driscoll, we delve a little further into some of his latest Film edits and some more crucial filmmaking advice. Part 2….. NFF: The Walk (2015) was a fantastic film which held a combination of digital painting, green screen and other film related techniques and one of my favourite scenes is when Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character braces the walk over the Twin Towers.  As a viewer it felt like it induced a level … Continue reading “In Conversation with Hollywood Editor: Jeremiah O’Driscoll (Part 2)”

The Norwich Film Festival had the pleasure of catching up with the brilliant Hollywood Film Editor Jeremiah O’Driscoll (J O’D).  His editing credits include: The Polar Express (2004), A Christmas Carol (2009),  Flight (2012),  The Walk (2015), and most recently Allied (2016).  Jeremiah has also contributed his editing skills on films such as Addams Family Values (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), The Birdcage (1996),  Contact (1997), What Lies Beneath (2000) and Cast Away (2000).  Having worked on numerous Hollywood Films we were … Continue reading “In Conversation with Hollywood Editor: Jeremiah O’Driscoll (Part 1)”

The Norwich Film Festival recently had the honour of speaking with the incredibly talented Denise Parkinson around her role in marketing film content.   Her career spans over 20 years’ in all aspects of Marketing and Distribution in the UK and International film distribution industry. Starting her profession in the marketing department at Palace Pictures, followed by Promotions Manager at United International Pictures and then held 11 years as Head of Film across the Emap portfolio.  Following that she has most recently undertaken roles … Continue reading “The Business behind the show…. Some useful tips from NFF Judge Denise Parkinson.”

Later this year the world will be treated to the hotly anticipated Pitch Perfect 3, which I’m pretty sure is going to be aca-amazing and what a great opportunity we had to speak with the incredibly talented director of the new film, Trish Sie.  This will be her second feature film, following her directorial debut of Step Up All In (2014). Sie comes with a host of experience, starting out as a choreographer she helped direct hit videos for OK … Continue reading “Catching up with Pitch Perfect 3 Director – Trish Sie”

The Norwich Film Festival continues its monthly featured interviews with the incredibly talented BAFTA nominated film editor Joan Sobel (ACE). Joan began as a first assistant editor on such projects as both of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films. She then moved to the principal editor with 2002’s Oscar winning short film The Accountant and the 2005 feature film, The Quiet.  Since then she has worked with Tom Ford twice on A Single Man and Nocturnal Animals. Some of Joan’s additional editing credits include Admission … Continue reading “In Conversation with BAFTA Nominated Film Editor Joan Sobel (ACE)”