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Interview with filmmaker Laura Carreira for On Falling - presented at 2024 Toronto Intll. Film Festival - Discovery section. Interview conducted by Eric Lavallée for IONCINEMA.com.
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Timestamps:
0:45 - What are the connective tissue between the short films and your debut feature and also the shorthand you developed with your cinematographer Karl Kurten
2:29 - What did producer Jack Thomas-O'Brien see in your material for him to join the project - what did he respond to?
4:45 - There is not a lot of dialogue - was the original screenplay lengthy on the page?
6:10 - What were you referencing from your personal experiences as someone who also migrated from one country to another...
8:30 - One of the visual strategies you employ is to shoot your character almost boxed in a four wall aesthetic choice....was this already in the script?
12:50 - Did you shoot in a linear fashion with your actress Joana Santos ...
14:38 - How did you embed different perspectives in this character - where she seeks to make a connection
17:00 - I was taking an inventory of what she was eating...it says a lot about her state of mind..curious about how the pastry shot come about?
20:32 - In the year that Wang Bing gave us a trilogy of films about work life - at what point did you know that this picking and packing workplace setting was essential to the film?
25:01 - This is your directorial debut - what does your process look like / what does your everyday reality look like back in Edinburgh.
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CREDITS
Producers: Jack Thomas-O'Brien, Mario Patrocínio.
Executive producers: Ama Ampadu, Kieran Hannigan, Sean Greenhorn, Kristin Irving, Claudia Yusef, Noëmie Devide, Rebecca O'Brien, Habib Rahman, Ana Paula Catarino, Luis Campos, Bia Tafner, Clarice Laus.
Director: Laura Carreira.
Screenplay: Laura Carreira.
Camera: Karl Kürten.
Editor: Helle le Fevre.
Cast: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora, Jake McGarry, Neil Leiper, Itxaso Moreno.
IONCINEMA.com is a media outlet featuring daily news, reviews and interviews in American indie, world cinema, documentary film & film festivals. Our motto: We heart subtitles!
Interview with filmmaker Laura Carreira for On Falling - presented at 2024 Toronto Intll. Film Festival - Discovery section. Interview conducted by Eric Lavallée for IONCINEMA.com.
Please support us by SUBSCRIBING to our Youtube channel!:
youtube.com/user/ioncinema?sub_confirmation=1
Let us know what you think of On Falling - leave your comments below!
Timestamps:
0:45 - What are the connective tissue between the short films and your debut feature and also the shorthand you developed with your cinematographer Karl Kurten
2:29 - What did producer Jack Thomas-O'Brien see in your material for him to join the project - what did he respond to?
4:45 - There is not a lot of dialogue - was the original screenplay lengthy on the page?
6:10 - What were you referencing from your personal experiences as someone who also migrated from one country to another...
8:30 - One of the visual strategies you employ is to shoot your character almost boxed in a four wall aesthetic choice....was this already in the script?
12:50 - Did you shoot in a linear fashion with your actress Joana Santos ...
14:38 - How did you embed different perspectives in this character - where she seeks to make a connection
17:00 - I was taking an inventory of what she was eating...it says a lot about her state of mind..curious about how the pastry shot come about?
20:32 - In the year that Wang Bing gave us a trilogy of films about work life - at what point did you know that this picking and packing workplace setting was essential to the film?
25:01 - This is your directorial debut - what does your process look like / what does your everyday reality look like back in Edinburgh.
CONNECT with IONCINEMA.com
Visit our website: ioncinema.com
Twitter: twitter.com/ioncinema
Facebook: facebook.com/ioncinema
Instagram: instagram.com/ioncinema
CREDITS
Producers: Jack Thomas-O'Brien, Mario Patrocínio.
Executive producers: Ama Ampadu, Kieran Hannigan, Sean Greenhorn, Kristin Irving, Claudia Yusef, Noëmie Devide, Rebecca O'Brien, Habib Rahman, Ana Paula Catarino, Luis Campos, Bia Tafner, Clarice Laus.
Director: Laura Carreira.
Screenplay: Laura Carreira.
Camera: Karl Kürten.
Editor: Helle le Fevre.
Cast: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora, Jake McGarry, Neil Leiper, Itxaso Moreno.
IONCINEMA.com is a media outlet featuring daily news, reviews and interviews in American indie, world cinema, documentary film & film festivals. Our motto: We heart subtitles!
