Video interviews

Cineuropa's video interviews. Discover or re-discover interviews with directors, actors, producers, distributors and other European professionals. In this section, you can find our video interviews with the Shooting Stars and Producers on the Move, as selected by European Film Promotion.

Johannes Ebert  • Secretary general, Goethe-Institut

“European film is what conveys the diversity of European culture”

Johannes Ebert • Secretary general, Goethe-Institut

The secretary general of the Goethe-Institut, Johannes Ebert, explains how the institute works and how it is involved in the “Support to EU Film Festivals”...  

Jason Ryle  • Executive director, imagineNATIVE

“Programming is one of the most amazing, but also one of the most difficult, things about film-festival work”

Jason Ryle • Executive director, imagineNATIVE

The executive, artistic and managing director of the imagineNATIVE festival, Jason Ryle, talks about the submission and selection process, and the...  

Guilhem Caillard | • Managing director, Cinemania

“Our funding system is a happy medium between US private and French public funding”

Guilhem Caillard | • Managing director, Cinemania

Guilhem Caillard talks about the organisation of side events, the financing of a film festival, programming and the use of social media to promote events  

Anne Tallineau  • Executive director, Institut français

“We hope to give international audiences an idea of European values that are at the heart of European cinema”

Anne Tallineau • Executive director, Institut français

Anne Tallineau, executive director of the Institut français, talks about the aim and the work of the institute  

René Louis Cacciuttolo • CEO, VRRoom

"Our goal is to meet many film festival programmers and organisers, producers and creators"

René Louis Cacciuttolo • CEO, VRRoom

CANNES 2019: We have met up with René Louis Cacciuttolo, CEO of VR-oriented media outlet VRRoom, at the innovation hub of the Marché du Film  

Yohan Bouché  • CEO, Onirix

"We have to create a virtual cycle between venues, studios and viewers"

Yohan Bouché • CEO, Onirix

CANNES 2019: At the Marché du Film, Onirix CEO Yohan Bouché talks about advancing mass adoption of cinematic VR through premium and comfortable technology  

Maciej Glowiak  • Project manager, Immersify

"It was great to be here and demonstrate our technologies"

Maciej Glowiak • Project manager, Immersify

CANNES 2019: We met up with Maciej Glowiak to talk about Immersify, a project providing cutting edge tools for the next generation of immersive media, at...  

Hlynur Pálmason  • Director of A White, White Day

"I wanted to explore how it is to love and hate someone at the same time"

Hlynur Pálmason • Director of A White, White Day

CANNES 2019: Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason visits Cannes with his second feature A White, White Day, selected in the Critics' Week  

Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts  • Directors of For Sama

"We wanted this to be the story of the people who were there"

Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts • Directors of For Sama

CANNES 2019: Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts discuss their documentary For Sama, selected as a Special Screening at the French festival after having...  

Ladj Ly  • Director of Les Misérables

"People tend to tell our story in our name"

Ladj Ly • Director of Les Misérables

CANNES 2019: We have met up with French director Ladj Ly, whose debut feature Les Misérables has been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or  

Renaud Barret • Director of System K

"For artists in Kinshasa, art is a way to survive"

Renaud Barret • Director of System K

BERLIN 2019: We talked to French director Renaud Barret about his documentary System K, shown in the Panorama section  

Xavier Henry Rashid • Sales agent, Film Republic

"With Brexit, we have to reevaluate if we stay a UK company or not"

Xavier Henry Rashid • Sales agent, Film Republic

BERLIN 2019: We chatted with Xavier Henry Rashid, sales agent at British company Film Republic, at the European Film Market  

Virginie Devesa • Sales agent, Alpha Violet

"Eastern Europe is always very important for us"

Virginie Devesa • Sales agent, Alpha Violet

BERLIN 2019: We chatted with Virginie Devesa, sales agent at French company Alpha Violet, at the European Film Market  

Jean-Christophe Simon • Sales agent, Films Boutique

"All the films are probably not for everybody"

Jean-Christophe Simon • Sales agent, Films Boutique

BERLIN 2019: We chatted with Jean-Christophe Simon, sales agent at German-French company Films Boutique, at the European Film Market  

Pia Hellenthal, Eva Collé • Director and protagonist of Searching Eva

"We were really captured by Eva's honesty"

Pia Hellenthal, Eva Collé • Director and protagonist of Searching Eva

BERLIN 2019: We met up with Pia Hellenthal and Eva Collé, director and protagonist of Searching Eva, a documentary presented in the Panorama section  

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