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Written by IndieFilmChat
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
 Oral Fixation is Jake Cashill's feature debut as a writer/director. His writing accolades include being named the Grand Prize Winner in American Zoetropes inuagural Screenplay Contest, for his Irish epic, The Fergus Cycle - which is currently in production. His other writing and directing credits include several short films as well as cowriting a script for Showtime with actor/writer Steve Kampman.
Indiefilmchat: Tell us a little about your background and how you came to make Oral Fixation.
Jake Cashill: I had been making some modest advances as a screenwriter, getting a handful of scripts optioned and doing a few writer-for-hire gigs, but nothing was getting made, so I wrote Oral Fixation with the intent to raise money for it and direct it myself. The idea for the story came during the filming of a short film I made years ago; one of the producers was recounting how her dentist had to change his phone number and move because a female patient was dropping by the office a lot and calling him at home, generally stalking him. So I thought, Hey that's a real oral fixation, yuk, yuk. And the movie was born. Of course I extrapolated a great deal on the core story, but the essence remained. Then, of course, it took several years to raise the money. But that's a whole other story.
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Read more... [Interview with Jake Cashill, Director of Oral Fixation.]
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Written by IndieFilmChat
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Thursday, 23 July 2009 |
 IFC recently had the opportunity to chat with Elisabeth Moss, actress and mild-mannered Peggy the Ad Exec on AMC's Mad Men. She tells us about her experience on that plus we talk at length about her starring role in the new drama, El Camino, which is being released on DVD next week.
Read the interview after the break.
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Read more... [Interview with Elisabeth Moss: Star Of El Camino and Mad Men]
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Written by Bruce Frigeri
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Monday, 13 July 2009 |
Chris Denham is one of Hollywood's bright young stars, steadily building a career with memorable roles in some of the most respected studio films of the past few years; Charlie Wilson's War and the soon to be released Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese, foremost among them. Denham moves easily between large studio productions, live theatre and independent productions like El Camino, where he gives an unforgettable performance as the conflicted womanizer, Gray. We caught up with Denham while he was on location.
IFC: You've been a working actor for a while now. Why do a "small" indie production like this?
Chris Denham: When it comes to choosing projects, I always choose story over budget.
Having worked on studio films affords me the luxury of working on independent films. But, whether or not the budget is $200,000 or $200 million, the story is the only essential. Maybe that sounds banal, but it is so easy to forget. It doesn't matter if they offer me forty million dollars, I don't want to be in a movie about exploding robots.
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Read more... [An Interview with Chris Denham of El Camino]
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Written by IndieFilmChat
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Friday, 26 June 2009 |
 Set against a changing American landscape, EL CAMINO follows Lily (Elisabeth Moss, from AMC's Mad Men) as she travels across the country with Gray (Chris Denham) and Elliot (Leo Fitzpatrick) with their friend’s ashes in hand. As these young adults confront their unrealized selves and their grief, nothing happens the way they expect.
We got a chance to catch up with Erik Weigel, Director of El Camino, and among other things, ask him about the production of El Camino.
Indiefilmchat: Tell us a little about your background and how you came to
make films.
Erik Weigel: I grew up in San Francisco in a very creative family, my mother is a talented painter and exposed me to different art forms. At a young age she took me to a lot of films, going to the movies was one of our favorite things to do and was a special treat. I have always been drawn to writing creative stories, and I originally was a literature major in college. After briefly studying psychology and studio arts, I found that filmmaking really encompassed all these interests. I graduated with a degree in film production and moved to New York to pursue my career. After a brief stint as a chef and a bar back, I began teaching film production and making my own projects.
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Read more... [Erik Weigel, Director of El Camino]
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Written by Bruce Frigeri
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 |
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 Indiefilmchat.com: Trout Grass has developed a very passionate following over the past couple of years. Why do you think these films have been so well received?
Andy Royer: Well, I'd like to think that that Trout Grass has been so well received because it is the Best Film Ever. Other than that I imagine the film is well received because it doing the job of a film; it is presenting an evocative story, one which many people, anglers in particular, can relate to. I think people also like a film with a slow pace and wonderful cinematography.
Indiefilmchat.com: What was you background and career prior to producing Trout Grass?
A.R.: I was just a lowly bamboo guy, supplying bamboo poles to fly-rod makers around the world. Film projects have been very small and none so meaningful as Trout Grass.
Indiefilmchat.com: Can you think of any ways that your background prepared you for producing a film like this? How about ways where it might have made the process more difficult?
A.R.: It made it easier because since I worked with bamboo and makers of fly-rods I knew what I was talking about and I was able to get great talent to help make the film. It made it more difficult because I didn't know what in the hell I was doing when it came to producing a film.
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Read more... [Interview with Andy Royer, director of Trout Grass]
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