TheWrap Screening Series
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Malaysian Director Talks About Shedding Light on Autism in ‘Beautiful Pain’
TheWrap Screening Series: “I hope society will take it as an invitation for people to learn more,” Tunku Mona Riza says
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‘From Afar’ Director on Highlighting Class Disparity in Modern Venezuela
TheWrap Screening Series: “”We are more and more afraid of intimacy everywhere,” Lorenzo Vigas says
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‘Long Way North’ Director Chose Emotion Over Detail for Animated Adventure Epic
TheWrap Screening Series: French-Danish animated film is inspired by Russian literature and polar expeditions
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‘Very Big Shot’ Filmmakers on Why It’s Hard to Make Films in Lebanon
TheWrap’s Screening Series: Director Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya and his two brothers spoke about Lebanon’s foreign Oscar entry
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‘Life, Animated’ Director Reveals How Filmmakers Secured the Rights to Use Classic Disney Characters
TheWrap Screening Series: Documentary follows an autistic child who learns to communicate through animated Disney movies like “Peter Pan” and “Jungle Book”
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‘The Salesman’ Director Asghar Farhadi on Erasing Fears Through Film
TheWrap Screening Series: “The cinema can do something really important,” he tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond
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‘It’s Only the End of the World’ Director Xavier Dolan on His Love of ‘Tough Protagonists’
TheWrap Screening Series: “They lie, they scream, they cry … they’re tough — but aren’t we all?” he tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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‘House of Others’ Director Says Making Film About Georgia War Was Her ‘Duty’
TheWrap Screening Series: Rusudan Glurjidze captures the fog of post-war in Georgia’s official Oscar entry
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‘Little Secret’ Director Says Movie’s Epic Score Brought Him to Tears
TheWrap Screening Series: Brazil’s Oscar submission tells an impossibly true story about love and prejudice
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‘Tonio’ Director on Filming Private Grief, Why Female Directors Aren’t a Rarity in Europe
TheWrap Screening Series: “I have no idea why there’s so few women directors in Hollywood,” Paula van der Oest tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond
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‘Floyd Norman: An Animated Life’ Filmmakers Discuss Movie’s Comic-Con Origins
TheWrap Screening Series: “We very early on realized he was the Forrest Gump of animation,” director Michael Fiore told TheWrap
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‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week’ Filmmakers on Discovering Sigourney Weaver in Old Footage
TheWrap Screening Series: A very young “Alien” actress appears in the documentary, which chronicles The Beatles early touring years
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Finnish Boxing Movie ‘Olli Maki’ Serves Up Surprising Quirk With its Punches
TheWrap Screening Series: “There is a contradiction between his personality and the boxing,” filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen says
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Why X Japan’s Drummer Yoshiki Initially Didn’t Want ‘We Are X’ Doc to Get Made
“It was too painful to talk about, too painful to remember each sad moment,” the musician says at TheWrap’s screening of the musical documentary
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‘The Ardennes’ Director Talks ‘Underbelly Characters,’ Wrangling Ostriches
TheWrap Screening Series: Belgian Oscar submission follows two brothers with a checkered past and diverging futures
