We sat down with the very friendly Stephen Elliot, to talk about his new film, After Adderall… When and how did After Adderall come about? When I saw The Adderall Diaries premiere at Tribeca, in April 15th 2015, and that inspired me to write After Adderall, which I wrote in about 2 weeks, following that screening,…
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Raindance has been more than a Film Festival for us, but also a place of fantastic opportunity, perhaps exemplified by this day’s round up. A five star review, three interviews, and perhaps the most important article of the festival. Champagne in Defiance: An evening with survivors of Museveni’s Genocide Train Driver’s Diary An Interview: Miloš…
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Jules and Dolores director, Caito Ortiz, had a fantastic chat with Elliot Burr & James Baxter-Derrington about his film, football (naturally), and the feeling of Rio de Janeiro in 1983. Congratulations on being nominated for Best Feature – were you surprised at all? Thank you, I was super surprised! What happened is, we made this…
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I really enjoyed the film, I think it captured that isolated feeling really well – but to start with, how did you get the idea for the film? So it came about through very collaborative means, and I think we all brought something quite specific to it. Joe, who’s the main actor, Joe Kennedy, as…
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Miloš Radovic kindly gave us his time to talk about the intricacies of filming on the tracks, and how to find the perfect balance between tragedy and humour. James Baxter-Derrington and Elliot Burr were on hand with the questions. I saw Train Driver’s Diary yesterday, and all I knew before going in was the statistic…
Read MoreNominated for: In Competition Feature Films In their professional career, a train driver inadvertently kills 20 to 30 people. This film begins with veteran train driver Ilija (Lazar Ristovski) during counselling, having just hit a car filled with six gypsy musicians. This is followed by young Sima (Petar Korac) fleeing his orphanage and attempting to…
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Originally this was intended to be a transcript of the discussion with a group of survivors from the genocide that took place in Northern Uganda. This changed when I realised I could not transcribe 2 hours of conversation into any workable format. Rather, I have written an account of the evening focussing on the key…
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Lee & Wayne Lennox came down on a train for the premiere of their film ‘AmStarDam’ and managed to stop in with Elliot Burr & James Baxter-Derrington. As opposed to other interviews when we’ve included [laughs] to indicate someone laughing, we decided against it this time, because otherwise the article would be twice as long. What follows…
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Clare Clarke and James Baxter-Derrington spoke with Rafael Palacio Illingworth about his film, Between Us, which is nominated for In Competition at Raindance this year. Why was this a story you wanted to tell? Why is this a story I wanted to tell? I don’t know, I always am attracted to things which have to…
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Nominated for: Best UK Feature The refugee crisis of 2015 is something that shocked us all, with immigrants from Afghanistan, Iran and Syria attempting to escape the war that has devastated their countries in order to start afresh in Europe. Richard Wyllie directs a fascinating insight into only five days of a difficult ordeal, enough…
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