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Front Page Review and Interview Archive
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Ana Muñozo - Costume Designer
Ana Muñozo studied fashion design and in fact
spent four years at the beginning of her career in the industry and
established a fashion brand with some colleagues.
“On white fabric
we hand painted the prints ourselves and we made a color chart for every
season. We designed
accessories such as ties, fans, umbrellas, scarves and dresses.
Actually, the original idea were nightshirts, I remember when I showed
them to a client, she told me that she saw them as dresses and I said,
"as long as you sell it, I don't care if they wear it to dinner or to
dream." We did everything ourselves, the boxes, the labels, they were
exclusive and on the label the client could see the number of the
series. (There might be) a series of fifteen and you bought number four,
therefore you knew that there were only fifteen of that model. We did
fashion shows in different places like the international "fashion cafe"
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Akash Sherman - Film Interview
As much as the entertainment industry is filled with stories of
successful performing artists who grew up in places like Los Angeles,
New York City and Nashville, there are an equal number of fabulous
stories of artists who grew up in obscure places, not obscure, because
they were unimportant, but more because one does not think of those
towns, cities and villages, as an incubator for creatives. Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada is one of those cities and this writer says that with
warmth and sincerity, as it is still the city considered to be my
hometown, even though I was born in Toronto.
Akash Sherman, whose father and sister are both doctors and whose mother
is a pharmacist, one might have assumed would have been headed for more
of an academic career, in a cold, northern city, far removed from
Canada’s two Hollywood North cities, Vancouver and Toronto and where
minus thirty and minus forty degrees Celsius temperatures keep
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Sierra Rein - Actress / Singer
Sierra Rein (pronounced Rhine as in rhinestones) talks about her role in
the Hulu series Fleishman is in Trouble, “It came out of the blue. It
was January of this year and my agent who hadn’t really talked to me for
a while said hey can you put yourself on tape for this TV show? I didn’t
really know much about the project, so I did a tiny bit of Googling. I
was like oh, okay there is this character Cherry who is in the book
Fleishman is in Trouble, but there wasn’t very much about her. I had my
husband do the other dialogue and I shot the scene and sent it in. This
was when we were in lockdown a little bit (New York City). We were
slowing emerging and putting our toes back into the river of humanity of
this year.
In mid-February I got an email that said, you are booked. I called my
husband and I said you know that one minute scene that you shot with me,
I am going to do a scene with Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg. It was
one of those surreal moments.
I was surprised they didn’t have a callback. I think it was one
of those (times) when they see who the person is and think yep that’s
the character. That’s great, because
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Executive Producer Jeanette B. Milio
Jeanette B.
Milio’s story begins in a small town outside of Cologne, Germany, where
she was raised by a single mother, who was a hairdresser. At first
glance this would appear to be an inauspicious start and far removed
from the life she built as a movie mogul, but she credits in part, her
success to lessons learned from her mother (more about that in a
minute). “I didn’t have any
idea of what this industry would be like.
The one thing I remember that drew me to storytelling even as a child,
is that I would come up with little stories and I would engage all the
children on our street to perform the stories in Saturday morning
theater pieces on the stairs in front of our house. I invited all of the
other neighborhood kids to come and watch the plays and to pay ten
pennies. I think I was |
Kincső
Nóra
Pethő
Obviously, only the Gaia part is taken from the Greek goddess, as
Kincső
Nóra
Pethő
explains, “I
am like a computer program from the future who becomes a real person by
the end of this 70-minute show. It was called Heroes of the Future
and it was part of Planet Budapest 2021. There were about fifty
actors and actresses working on this project, which was intended to
raise the interest of kids for protecting the environment. For one week
(in early December) the program ran from morning until evening. It was a
wonderful experience to see how enthusiastic the kids were! I felt great
about contributing to such a good goal!”
Continuing
she says, “We
talk to the children about how in the year 2100 there is not enough air,
and the environment has been destroyed. (The message is) they have to be
conscious of what they are doing in the present in 2021.
When we had some rehearsal groups and I could see a small guy, who was
ten years
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Actor Miquel Garcia Borda
We quickly learned
about Miquel Garcia Borda even prior to the interview that is he is a
very gracious man, who does not take his opportunities and
accomplishments for granted, who seems to understand that who he is as
an artist is the sum of his life experiences and the people from whom he
has learned along the way. “When I was in college and I was nineteen we
were doing a play The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw and I
was playing the main character. The instructor, Juame Melendres said to
me are you allowed to go out at night? You are too young to do that. (He
laughs) I said I get it. I will try harder. You must have lived. You
have to live a lot to use it for your characters,” says
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Actor German Torres
At the time we
spoke, 24 horas en la vida de una mujer, produced by highly acclaimed
actress Silvia Marsó, who also starred in the musical with Felipe Ansola
had just returned to the stage at Teatro Galileo in Madrid, after an
absence of nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked German
Torres what that experience was like. He said, “It was
fantastic, after the world stopped, returning to the stage is a miracle.
The theater has maximum security and culture is safe now in Madrid. We
are allowed to have fifty-five percent (of capacity) for the audience
now. In other communities only thirty people are allowed. We had forgotten,
just a little about the energy of the stage, because it had been so long
There were also
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Derek Siow - Actor Interview
Before we get into
Derek Siow’s acting let’s spend a moment or two talking about his other
passion, screenwriting. “I write sci-fi,
drama and comedy and I write mainly because I just crave that creative
outlet. In my younger days I wrote a lot of songs (oh right we forgot to
mention his music, but we will!) but my writing is more focused on
screenplays now. I was really fortunate last year when one of my comedy
scripts placed as a semi-finalist one of the screenwriting competitions
so I’m always looking at the various options on where to take my
projects,” he says.
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Norwegian Actress / Director
Without giving away too much of the storyline, asylum seeker Leyla
played by Tonje Thwin and Stig portrayed by Eric Vorenholt meet during a
COVID-19 lockdown, while Stig is making a delivery to her home. All is
not what it seems however and as the story unfolds the characters have
to make a decision to trust one another and to tell their own stories.
Norwegian readers will recognize Tonje Thwin from television series such
as Sol, Snart Seks (2016) when she was cast in the role of
Linnea’s mother and her regular role as Fiona in Hotel Caesar
between 2014 – 17. Eric Vorenholt is best known for his role as Arne
Hammer in The King’s Choice (2016), which was in consideration
for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. He also appeared in six
episodes of the 2020 television series Vikingane.
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