How Inbar Shtiglitz Turned Silence into Story for RED HEART

Date: 07-07-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Inbar Shtiglitz is a filmmaker originally from Givatayim, Israel, now living between France and Israel. A graduate of our partners over at the Minshar School of Arts, Inbar has written and directed three narrative shorts and is currently editing a...


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Lighthouse Selections 2025: ‘Let the Error Speak’ – Rony Efrat on Creativity Outside of the Box

Date: 24-06-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Filmmaker Rony Efrat is afraid of bugs—but she watches them. In her Lighthouse-selected short “Failing Forward”, which was picked by Guest Curator Jukka-Pekka Laakso, memory, AI, and glitch coalesce into a haunting audiovisual essay. From Laurie Anderson to “Zoolander”, we...


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Lighthouse Selections 2025: Ulysse de Maximy – Evoking Childhood Through Sound and Vision in CRAWLIES

Date: 17-06-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Ulysse de Maximy is a student at the Mexican National Film School. His short film CRAWLIES was selected as part of the 2025 T-Port Lighthouse Selections by our guest curator Jukka-Pekka Laakso.  In this interview, we caught up with the...


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Blurring Truth and Illusion: Luka Kluskens on BLIN FIDUCIE

Date: 11-06-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Meet Luka Kluskens, a Dutch actress and filmmaker whose short film BLIN FIDUCIE is now available on T-Port, thanks to our partners at Screen Talent Netherlands. In this interview, Luka shares the personal and cultural roots behind her visually bold...


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Lighthouse Selections 2025: Edie Lawrence on Stop Motion, Poverty, and Breaking into Festivals

Date: 16-05-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Bristol-based animator and filmmaker Edie Lawrence uses claymation to explore contemporary issues. Her debut short film, Autophagy, which was picked as part of the 2025 Lighthouse Selections by Kasia Karwan, is a dark reflection on grief, dementia, and the predatory...


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Lighthouse Selections 2025: ‘How much can love really save anyone?’ Talking to Jason Adam Maselle, director of PUNTER

Date: 02-05-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Jason Adam Maselle (he/him) directed his Lighthouse Selected short film PUNTER, a film that began as an exploration of his dad’s gambling addiction, but ended up as an exploration of his country, South Africa.   We chatted to the filmmaker, whose...


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Lighthouse Selections 2025: Exploring the ‘suspense-comedy’ genre with William Sehested Høeg director of THE COMPLAINT

Date: 17-04-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

In William Sehested Høeg’s workplace tragi-comedy THE COMPLAINT, his protagonist Mona learns of a complaint made about her to HR while attending a management training course.  We chatted with the Danish filmmaker about his process as well as finding the...


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Producer Pim van Gorp: Empowering Emerging Talent through Short Films

Date: 07-04-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Pim van Gorp is a producer for Fabel Films, whose recent works SHELTER and CRESCENDO appear on T-Port courtesy of our partners at Screen Talent Netherlands.  In this insightful interview, we sit down with Pim, a seasoned producer with over...


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Lighthouse Selections 2025: Doron Neeman on taking guidance from past masters

Date: 04-04-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Doron Neeman is still in the early part of his career and is still studying at film school – this hasn’t stopped the student film that he directed being picked up by Guest curator Kasia Karwan as part of the...


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Lighthouse Selections 2025: Fabrizio Fusco on his first major short film, ‘angels’ in the casting room, and the many roadblocks to distribution

Date: 27-03-2025

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Fabrizio Fusco’s short film THE SKY IS LOST /  Il cielo è perso caught the eye of our guest curator Jukka-Pekka Laakso, and made it into his contribution to the 2025 T-Port Lighthouse Selections.  In this interview, we find out...


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