The simple, complicated ideas of Michal Toczek

Date: 17-12-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Filmmaker Michal Toczek has been busy – four of his films currently appear on T-Port, each with intersecting themes and ideas, and two featuring the same well known Polish comic actor – Sebastian Stankiewicz – in dramatic roles.  In this...


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Ieva Šakalytė on the joys of pitching and letting go

Date: 05-12-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Baltic Pitching Forum alumna Ieva Šakalytė (she/her) was gracious enough to share two of her short films BECOMING ANIMAL (2018) and SPA (2024) with us, so we caught up with the Lithuanian filmmaker to chat about  the production process, the...


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From a Lighthouse Selection to an awards run, catch up with Gleb Osatinski

Date: 18-11-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Filmmaker Gleb Osatinski has been busy since his film OUTSIDERS made the cut for the 2021 T-Port Lighthouse Selections. In this catch up interview, we chat to the Ukrainian-born filmmaker about his current awards run after a lengthy pre production...


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T-Port Lighthouse Selections 2023: The Interviews – Hoda Taheri on confidence, communication, and the future

Date: 15-08-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Hoda Taheri, born in Tehran, Iran in 1992, is an Iranian Refugee Artist and Filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. In 2016, she received her bachelor’s degree in visual communication from Limkokwing University in Malaysia. Her short film MOTHER PRAYS ALL...


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T-Port Lighthouse Selections 2023: The Interviews – Boris Hadzija on making sense from the ‘cacophony of voices’

Date: 06-08-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Boris Hadzija’s Lighthouse-selected short YUGOTRANSPORT: WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME BUS draws on the experiences of those around him, having been born in the former Yugoslavia. We talked to the director about what it took to work with non-actors,...


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T-Port Lighthouse Selections 2023: The Interviews – Ido Weisman on seizing the moment and going against the grain

Date: 12-07-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Filmmaker Ido Weisman honed his craft in the world of reality TV, which he credits with helping him discover his role as a documentarian. His documentary short REQUIEM FOR A WHALE is a perfect example of when a filmmaker should...


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T-Port Lighthouse Selections 2023: The Interviews – Found footage from a distant place in Eugenia Bakurin’s ‘Long Time No Techno’

Date: 31-05-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Eugenia Bakurin is a filmmaker and media artist, who was born in the Soviet Union and has lived in Germany for over 20-years.  T-Port’s Jess Sweetman caught up with the filmmaker to talk about her Lighthouse Selected found footage film...


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T-Port Lighthouse Selections 2023: The (VIDEO) Interviews – Yi Xiong and the fortune telling turtles

Date: 01-05-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Yi Xiong’s A TORTOISE’S YEAR OF FATE is a 20-minute portrait of a young man trying to find belonging, set among the machinery of a Chinese factory. It’s universal theme and gorgeous cinematography caught the eye of guest curator Laurence...


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T-Port Lighthouse Selections 2023: The Interviews – The ‘Strange and Exciting’ Life of Alex Lawther

Date: 10-04-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Alex Lawther has been making his name as an actor for quite some time, but his directorial debut, the short film FOR PEOPLE IN TROUBLE, which he also wrote, has already been making a splash on the festival circuit in...


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T-Port Lighthouse Selections 2023: The Interviews – Janina Lutter on standing up through (and beyond) film

Date: 26-03-2024

Posted by: Jess Sweetman

Filmmaker Janina Lutter is the director of the Lighthouse Selected film THE SCHOOL IS ON FIRE AND WE KNOW WHY, which appears on T-Port courtesy of our partners at Hessische Film und Medienakademie (hFMA). In this interview, the sparky Lutter shares...


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