Interviews film

In 'Seymour, An Introduction' Ethan Hawke shows his chops as a first time documentary filmmaker using a surprising subject in a unique and intuitive process. The film is excellent for what and how it reveals a real and human portrait of friend and mentor of Hawke, former concert pianist, teacher, and composer, the incomparable Seymour Bernstein.

Watching these interviews in Genevieve Bailey's thoughtful film, you will recall that time when you were eleven, the age between the dusk of innocence.

What's not to find joyous about a roundtable interview with award winning actor Kevin Kline and celebrated playwright Israel Horovitz who discussed their collaboration on Horovitz's directorial debut of his brilliant film 'My Old Lady?' Not only did we learn interesting bits about the making of the film, we had the opportunity to watch these close knit friends (Horovitz refers to Kline as his cousin) in rare form. When one "cousin" leaves off commenting, the other "cousin" seamlessly picks up the anticipated rejoinder. They were loads of fun, but they were also deep folks, very deep. If you blinked, you missed it.

Adria Tennor discusses her happy, busy life acting, writing, directing, being a restaurateur and doing her comedic one-women shows.

The filmmaker discusses shooting a feature documentary about Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the last refuges of the magnificent and canny mountain gorillas.

Cough is a sci-fi tale set in Australia in the not-to-distant future where people have traded freedom for safety. Says the tagline: "Civil Liberties are Yesterday."

Although Snowden garnered all the headlines, he is only one of a string of people who have revealed unconstitutional activities of our nation's spy agencies.

After I screened Nicholas Wrathall's documentary, 'Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia,' I briefly chatted with Wrathall who shared his impressions of Vidal as he got to know him during the process of making the film.

Academy Award documentation Dan Lindsey shares experiences and advice on filmmaking

Downes recently agreed to answer my questions about Mom's Night Out and his other filmmaking projects.