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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Lighthouse Selections 2025: Ulysse de Maximy – Evoking Childhood Through Sound and Vision in CRAWLIES
Date: 17-06-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
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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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‘The World That No Longer Exists’: Tomasz Frymorgen on Memory, Identity, and His Claims Conference Runner-Up Short ‘Wallpaper’
Date: 29-05-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
Polish-British filmmaker Tomasz Frymorgen was awarded as a runner up in the Claims Conference Emerging Filmmaker Contest for his evocative short “Wallpaper,” a poignant meditation on memory, loss, and legacy. With a background in documentaries and a current focus on...
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“The Grandfather Puzzle”: Ora DeKornfeld on Piecing Together Holocaust Memory Across Generations
Date: 20-05-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
When filmmaker Ora DeKornfeld began exploring her grandfather’s past, she unearthed more than just family lore—she discovered a cinematic thread that would become THE GRANDFATHER PUZZLE, a short documentary supported by the Claims Conference Emerging Filmmaker Contest. Raised in Annapolis,...
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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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Preserving Fofo’s Voice: A Claims Conference Finalist on Memory, Trust, and Block 10
Date: 11-05-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
In this interview, Alison reflects on her experience pitching the project for the Claims Conference Emerging Filmmaker Contest, the rare access she was granted to film inside Auschwitz’s infamous Block 10, and the emotional challenges of bringing Fofo’s story to...
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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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