TheWrap Magazine
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Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard’s Experience on ‘Memory’: No Trailer? No Makeup? No Problem
TheWrap magazine: Mexican director Michel Franco says he warns his actors before filming to make sure “they know how I work”
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‘Society of the Snow’ Director Explains How a Famous Survival Story Was Finally Depicted ‘Using Real Names’
TheWrap magazine: “We used all local actors with Uruguayan accents, which was so important to us and to the survivors,” says director J.A. Bayona
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‘The Delinquents’ Director Rodrigo Moreno Makes You Wonder if You’d Like to Rob a Bank
TheWrap magazine: Argentina’s Oscar submission interrogates the prison of a jail cell vs. an office cubicle
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‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Breakout Star Aria Mia Loberti Originally Auditioned for Her ‘Own Healing’
TheWrap magazine: “As much as I loved studying and reading about how the world can change because of the words we use, I wasn’t out in the real world doing those things,” she shares
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‘The Other Black Girl’ Author Zakiya Dalila Harris Reveals Why Nella’s Ending Changed for Hulu: ‘She’s Deciding to Take Charge’
TheWrap magazine: “It’s going to be messy, but if we get a Season 2, at least we’ll get to see her fight,” Harris says
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‘Occupied City’ Director Steve McQueen Says Coffee and Pee Breaks ‘Become Part of the Experience’ of Watching His 4-Hour Holocaust Doc
TheWrap magazine: Adds cocreator Bianca Stegter, “You couldn’t deal with it in one-and-a-half hours, that would just be impossible”
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‘The Mission’ Directors Said NatGeo Was ‘Not Afraid’ of Their Documentary Examining the Company’s History of Exoticizing Foreign Cultures
TheWrap magazine: “They have said that they were culpable for shaping the Western conception of tribal cultures,” says co-director Jesse Moss
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How ‘Shayda’ Became a ‘Huge Healing Journey’ for the Director and Her Mother
TheWrap magazine: Noora Niasari’s autobiographical debut about an Iranian immigrant fleeing an abusive husband spotlights the universality of domestic violence
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‘The Eternal Memory’ Director Says a Filmmaking Error Added Extra Poignancy to Her Film
TheWrap magazine: ” The footage being out of focus works because it’s meaningful,” says Oscar-nominated documentarian Maite Alberdi
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‘Pictures of Ghosts’ Director Says His Brazilian Documentary Came Together in a ‘Natural and Progressive Way’
TheWrap magazine: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s feature is a love letter to cinema and his beloved city of Recife
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‘Beyond Utopia’ Director Wants to Honor 26 Million Trapped North Koreans in an ‘Intimate, Profound Way’
TheWrap magazine: Madeleine Gavin says documenting families’ attempted escapes from the authoritarian nation was a lesson in “pure courage”
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How the Documentary ‘To Kill a Tiger’ Found Its Hero in a 13-Year-Old Rape Survivor
TheWrap magazine: Nisha Pahuja’s film charts a young Indian girl’s astonishing courage and explores the toxic masculinity that enables sexual violence
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‘Priscilla’ Star Cailee Spaeny Ignored Other Film Versions of the Presleys, Including Her Best Friend Olivia DeJonge’s
TheWrap magazine: “I just wanted it to come from my time with Priscilla herself,” the actress says
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Mexico’s ‘Tótem’ Puts a Kid in the Spotlight: ‘Childhood Is Destiny,’ Director Says
TheWrap magazine: “I think it’s vital to be in a dialogue with our childhood,” Lila Avilés says of her latest Oscar contender
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‘Omen’ Director Baloji Says ‘Hating’ His Name Led Him to Making His First Film
TheWrap magazine: Baloji means “sorcerer” in Swahili, and the artist-director says “all my work is based on my name”
