Blog and Interviews

  • Interview with award winning director Kate Johnston: Stormcloud

    Interview with award winning director Kate Johnston: Stormcloud

    Kate Johnston’s gentle comedy Stormcloud follows Vi’s emotional storm when two born-again Christians knock on her door in a vulnerable moment, is based on Johnston’s own experiences when she was in a similar predicament. Although the real story was no more than a polite exchange on the doorstep, in Stormcloud Johnston explores what if she’d…

  • Interview: Krissy Mahan,  Director: ‘My Aunt Mame’

    Interview: Krissy Mahan, Director: ‘My Aunt Mame’

    Having access to new digital technology is only part of the solution to making great film , you still need time, and skill, and a fresh way of telling a story. In the run up to the Identity programme of short films at Curzon Soho, we asked filmmakers to share with us the stories behind…

  • Het Washing – A Question of Morals?

    Het Washing – A Question of Morals?

    The feature film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (dir. Angela Robinson, 2018) is based on the true story of the creators of the Lie Detector test and the DC character Wonder Woman.  Criticised in reviews and by the Marston family for queering up the relationship between Elizabeth Marston and Olive Byrne, it is exactly…

  • Mark Pride In Our Community

    Mark Pride In Our Community

    As the flags are flying for Pride month this June, news reports remind us why it’s still necessary to stand up and fight for equality even in 2019. There is safety in numbers and relief through knowing we are not alone in facing micro-aggressions and physical threats.  While we now have the protection of the…