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...
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...
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...
Date: 29-05-2025
Posted by: Jess Sweetman
This year at Cannes, we had the pleasure of spending time with an incredible group of 18 filmmakers whose projects were selected for the T-Port showcase and workshop. Every day, we met up for sessions where we got to know...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
