Modern Films Podcast

Sep 15 2023 10 ep. 28 mins 7
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Modern Films is a film production, distribution and event cinema company. We launched in 2017 with the release of Manifesto, starring Cate Blanchett in 13 different roles, in partnership with Tate Modern. We work with rising and established talent from around the world and bring innovative stories to global audiences, we focus on gender equality, female empowerment and pressing social issues. Produced by Modern Films Entertainment, hosted by Jacqueline.

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Notes On: Under The Fig Trees

Sep 15 2023 35 mins  
Filmmaker Claire Belhassine chats to UNDER THE FIG TREES director Erige Sehiri in this episode of The Modern Line podcast. From the minutiae and poetics of daily work life, capturing sisterhood on screen and creating a film where one day would look like a lifetime, Claire and Erige discuss the making of Under The Fig Trees and the beauty and power of complexity within simplicity.

Notes On: Sick Of Myself

Jul 07 2023 28 mins  
Filmmaker Posy Dixon (Keyboard Fantasies) chats to SICK OF MYSELF lead actress Kristine Kujath Thorp in this intimate, laugh-out-loud funny episode of The Modern Line podcast. From wildly absurd acting techniques (think dog tasers and drinking gallons of beetroot juice), to working with Kristoffer Borgli and portraying loneliness and narcissism on screen, Posy and Kristine delve de

Notes On: You Resemble Me

May 10 2023 27 mins  
In this episode of The Modern Line podcast, filmmaker Zeina Durra (LUXOR) speaks to YOU RESEMBLE ME director Dina Amer about the trials and tribulations of working in independent film (it’s a “roll up the sleeve” kind of job), how filmmaking “saved their lives”, about racism in the industry, working as a mother on set, and getting your first film out into the world.

Notes On: More Than Ever

Mar 02 2023 29 mins  
Emily Atef in conversation with Lisa Rovner. In this episode MORE THAN EVER director Emily Atef chats to Lisa Rovner (Sisters with Transistors) about filmmaking, the importance of discussing life and death, and on writing the greatest sex scene in recent cinematic history.

Memory Box: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige with Róisín Tapponi

Jan 14 2022 23 mins  
Hello 2022, and welcome back to The Modern Films Podcast. After a brief hiatus, we’re excited to kick things off again with a conversation between Lebanese filmmakers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and Iraqi-Irish film curator and programmer Róisín Tapponi on Memory Box.  Memory Box is a story about growing up and about survival, set against the politica

Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins with Janice Engel and Carlisle Vandervoort

Dec 21 2020 47 mins  
In this episode, Entertainment Writer at Harper's Bazaar, Yasmin Omar, chats with Raise Hell director, Janice Engel, and producer, Carlisle Vandervoort. Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins tells the story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor sharp wit left both sides of the ais

Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint with Halina Dyrschka

Oct 28 2020 27 mins  
Halina Dyrschka's debut film Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint charts the thrillingly enlightening life and works of pioneering Swedish abstract, Hilma af Klint. In this episode we sit down with her (over Zoom) to discuss her new film, Hilma's life story and the importance of re-writing art history.  Find out more about Beyond the Visible at https://www.modernfilms.com/hilmaa

S1 E1: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Feat. Pamela B. Green

Jan 08 2020 15 mins  
Happy New Year!! Welcome to a brand new season of Modern Films podcast, where each episode features emerging and established filmmakers and sharing their insights and expertises.  To celebrate the UK and Ireland release of Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, I’m here with Pamela Green, the director of Be Natural to talk about the story behind it.   Be Nat

Episode 2: In Conversation with Kim Longinotto

Nov 27 2019 30 mins  
Welcome to second episode of Modern Films podcast, in this episode we're excited to have film legend Kim Longinotto to discuss her storied career and latest documentary Shooting the Mafia,  an eye-opening profile of Sicilian organised crime photographer Letizia Battaglia, in cinemas across UK and Ireland 29 November.  modernfilms.com/mafia "I have never seen a film that s

Episode 1: In Conversation with Diamantino Filmmakers from Tate Modern

May 10 2019 19 mins  
Diamantino filmmakers Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt join us to a conversation with Tate Film curator Carly Whitefield.  Set in present-day Portugal, Diamantino follows the delirious journey of a hilariously naïve football star from blissful prowess to career-busting disillusionment. The film was inspired by two sports essays by author David Foster Wallace. A quintessent