T-Port Blog

Chadi Bennani on identity, exploration through film, and a delicate approach to working with his subjects

By: T-Port Team
09-08-2024
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Awards, Documentary, Fiction, Filmmakers, Independent
  Chadi Bennani is a filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In this interview the documentarian talks about his cinematic origins, the close and trusting relationship he builds with his subjects and crew, as well as how he uses film to explore personal questions around identity. His film HERE AND THERE appears on T-Port courtesy of […]
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Giving voice (and rebellion) to the caregivers: EFP’s Future Frames’ Anna Maria Joakimsdottir-Hutri, director of WHO STANDS UP FOR ALVAR?

By: T-Port Team
18-07-2024
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Awards, Documentary, Fiction, Filmmakers, Independent
  Every year, European Film Promotion (EFP) select ten outstanding young directors and screen their films at the Karlovy-Vary Film Festival, following which we are lucky enough to host the films here on T-Port for our Professional Subscribers.  Anna Maria Joakimsdottir-Hutri’s WHO STANDS UP FOR ALVAR is a piece that explores the life of a […]
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Familial love amid medical trauma, an interview with EFP’s Future Frames’ Marthe Peters

By: T-Port Team
18-07-2024
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Awards, Documentary, Fiction, Filmmakers, Independent
Every year, European Film Promotion (EFP) select ten outstanding young directors and screen their films at the Karlovy-Vary Film Festival, following which we are lucky enough to host the films here on T-Port for our Professional Subscribers.  We were lucky to interview two of the directors. First up, Marthe Peters, whose film BALDILOCKS is available […]
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Filmmaker Yarden Malka Bonet on how her documentary helped address and heal family wounds

By: T-Port Team
13-07-2023
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Drama, Fiction, Filmmakers
For her documentary THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ALAIN, director Yarden Malka Bonet took on the deeply personal subject of her grandfather, a man who returned to the family after a long absence spent in religious service in Germany. In this interview we find out what it felt for the filmmaker, whose work appears on T-Port […]
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Filmmaking without regret: An interview with BORDER CONVERSATIONS documentarian Jonathan Brunner

By: T-Port Team
31-05-2023
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Documentary, Filmmakers
26-year-old Jonathan Brunner is no stranger to T-Port, having taken part in our 2023 Clermont Talents Connexion pitching contest.  We caught up with the filmmaker, whose work appears on T-Port through our partners at Filmakademie Baden Württenberg, to find out more about the process he went through in producing his short film BORDER CONVERSATIONS and […]
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