Carolyn Talks..., Podcast

Writer and director Belkıs Bayrak spoke with me about her debut feature film about Gülizar (Ecem Uzan), a Turkish young woman whose life is traumatically changed when she's sexually assaulted on her way to meet her fiancé Emre (Bekir Behrem)to begin final preparations for their wedding in Kosovo. #Gulizar #CarolynTalks #TIFF24 #SHWHTIFF24 #TIFF #TurkishFilm Images courtesy of TIFF and https://www....

Writer and director Arshile Egoyan joined me for #CarolynTalks during #TIFF2024 to discuss his short film BEFORE THEY JOINED US in which he depicts how war and immigration changes the ways children look at their parents and the choices they're forced to make in unimaginable circumstances. #BeforeTheJoinedUsFilm #ArmenianFilm #CanadianFilm #TIFF24 #TIFF #Interview Images courtesy of TIFF Find me on...

Writer and Director Karen Chapman, and actresses Olunike Adeliyi and Zahra Bentham joined #CarolynTalks to chat about VILLAGE KEEPER, Karen's debut feature film about the secrets mothers keep, how women can subconsciously deprive themselves of the most simple pleasures, and the effects of shared trauma between mothers and daughters. #VillageKeeper premiered in the Discovery program of the 2024 #To...

Director Kourtney Roy and actor Jason Deline joined me for #CarolynTalks, to chat about their supernatural thriller KRYPTIC, about a woman Kay (Chloe Pirre) who's venture into the forests of British Columbia in search of a missing cryptozoologist leads to cryptic and undefined supernatural encounters. Written by Paul Bromley, KRYPTIC premiered at 2024  @FantasiaFest  2024. #Fantasia #Fan...

In her feature documentary A SISTERS' TALE, filmmaker Leila Amini reveals her sister Nasreen's journey to finding the pieces of herself lost over 14 years of being a wife and mother, through her passion to become a professional singer in Iran. Joining Leila for the interview was producer Afsaneh Salari who acted as interpreter and shared her own challenges and blessings of producing a film like th...

Writer and director Akihiro Toda 戸田彬弘, spoke with me for #CarolynTalks about his dramatic feature IICHIKO starring Hana Sugisaki as Ichiko, the enigmatic young woman running from a past she fears and doesn't understand, and a possible future with her boyfriend Hashikawa (Ryuya Wakaba) who finds more questions than answers the more he searches for her. #JapaneseFilm #AsianCinema #FilmFestival #...

During #TIFF24 I had the pleasure of speaking with writer and director Lakshmipriya Devi about her debut feature film BOONG, about the precocious Boong (Gugun Kipgen), who travels from his home in Manipur to Moreh, in Northern India to find his long lost father in the hope of increasing his mother Mandakini's (Bala Hijam), happiness. #TIFF #SHWHTIFF24 #CarolynTalks #IndianFilm #AsianCinema #FilmCr...

Filmmaker Gabrielle Brady joined me for #CarolynTalks to chat about her hybrid docu-drama THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT cowritten by the film's leads Daava (Davaasuren Dagvasuren) and Zaya (Otgonzaya Dashzeveg), about the far reaching effects of climate change on the the Mongolian steps, the people and their culture. #TheWolvesAlwaysComeAtNight #MongolianFilm #Mongolia #AsianCinema #TIFF24 #TIFF...

Director and actress Rachel House spoke with me during #TIFF24 for the premiere of her debut feature film THE MOUNTAIN about three best friends Sam, Bronco, and Mallory who decide to go on their first grand adventure to the top of the Taranaki Maunga in New Zealand. #TIFF #Maori #RachelHouse #CarolynTalks #FilmCritic #Interview Find me on Twitter and Instagram @CarrieCNH12 Buy me a coffee or pizza...

Award-winning filmmaker Alicia K. Harris joined me during #TIFF24 to talk about her short film ON A SUNDAY AT ELEVEN, that depicts the importance of natural hair in all its forms and intricacies for Black girls through the eyes of young aspiring ballerina Angel. #TIFF2024 #TorontoInternationalFilmFestival #ShortFilm #CarolynTalks #OnASundayAtEleven premiered in the Short Cuts Program @TIFF 2024. T...

Taking the traditional form of Cantonese theatre from the stage to film, Malaysian filmmaker Chong Keat Aun explores a rarely discussed and little known time in the country's history, the May riots of 1969, when politics created a rift between the many ethnic tribes, leading to the massacre and disappearance of an unknown number of members of the Chinese community. #SnowInMidsummer had its U.S. Pr...

Directors Kim Jong-kwan, Roh Deok, Chang Hang-jun, Lee Myung-Se, and their creative muse actress Shim Eun-kyung joined me for #CarolynTalks to talks about their multi-genre omnibus film, and homage to noir, THE KILLERS, which had its World Premiere at  @NewYorkAsianFilmFestival  . #TheKillers #ShimEunKyung #KoreanFilm #AsianCinema #NYAFF24 #NYAFF2024 #ShortFilm #FilmFestival #FilmCritic...

For the North American premiere of their emotional family feature HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES หลานม่า, filmmaker Pat Boonnitipat พัฒน์ บุญนิธิพัฒน์ and actor Billkin Assaratanakul พุฒิพงศ์ อัสสรัตนกุล, joined me for #CarolynTalks, to discuss creating new bonds with our elders, the challenges of going from creating and starring in drama series to film, and what aspects of the film has...

Malaysian writer, Director, and producer Adrian Teh joined me for #CarolynTalks to chat about RIVERSI, his time loop dramatic action film and feature directorial debut about Akdid (Beto Kusyairy), a hostage negotiator man desperate to beat time and reverse fate no matter the cost. #Reversi which also stars Shiqin Kamal, and Hasnul Rahmat, had its North American Premiere at the 2024  @NewYorkA...

Independent filmmaker Chanel Dupree joined me to talk about her debut feature film and documentary "YOU THINK YOU GROWN: Dismantling Adultification", in which she and a group of Black women in various fields of studies and vocations including trauma counselling, discuss and examine how the "adultification" of young Black girls creates lasting individual and cultural trauma. #CarolynTalks #Document...

For the @NewYorkAsianFilmFestival International Premiere of his debut feature FRANKENSTEIN FATHER 프랑켄슈타인아버지, writer and director Choi Jae-young spoke with me about its themes of the nature and responsibility of parenthood and the dynamics of fathers and sons and men and boys. #CarolynTalks #FrankensteinFather #KoreanFilm #KoreanCinema #NYAFF24 #NYAFF2024 #FilmFestival #AsianFilmFestival #...

OPERATION UNDEAD ตัวอย่างเต็ม 'ช.พ.๑ สมรภูมิคืนชีพ', director Kongkiat Komesiri, producer Lakkana 'Naam' Palawatchai, and actors Nonkul, Awat Ratanapinth, and Ping Guntapatt, joined me for the World Premiere of their film to talk about war making monsters of boys and men, and the forgotten history of Thailand's place in WWII. #ชพ๑ #ชพ๑สมรภูมิคืนชีพ #OperationUndead premiered at  @NewYorkAsian...

For the  @NewYorkAsianFilmFestival  World Premiere of their heist/reverse heist film BREAKING AND RE-ENTERING [還錢], director Leo Wang and actor Kent Tsai joined me to chat about balancing the comedy and action, and creating chemistry between the actors to make their found family dynamic work. #NYAFF2024 #NYAFF24 #CarolynTalks #AsianCinema #FilmFestival #TaiwaneseFilm #Taiwan #BreakingA...

Actor Jake Choi joined me for #CarolynTalks to share his thoughts on looking back at his 2016 film FRONT COVER written and directed by Ray Yeung. We spoke about the film being as much about the burgeoning romance between Chinese-American fashion stylist Ryan (Choi), and Ning the proudly Chinese actor played by James Chen, as it is about the culture clash and acceptance between them. # NYAFF2024 #N...

Writer and Director Tony Bui joined me for #CarolynTalks, to discuss his award winning film THREE SEASONS, which broke ground in 1999 as the first Vietnamese-American film to be filmed in Vietnam after the lifting of the post-war embargo. The film serves as a window into life of the people in Ho Chi Minh City at juncture of the people trying to adjust to the encroachment of westernization into the...

For the North American Premiere of her debut feature film FLY ME TO THE MOON, writer and director Sasha Chuk spoke with me about using her own life as a young girl learning to adapt to a new life and city in Hong Kong as inspiration for the film and her decision to step in front of the camera to play the grown up version of her lead character Yeun Yeun. #HongKongFilm #AsianCinema #CarolynTalks #Fl...

Noted Documentarian Panu Aree joined #CarolynTalks, to chat about his debut dramatic feature and the second ever Thai Muslim horror film, THE CURSED LAND แดนสาป, Co-written with Kong Rithdee, and starring Ananda Everingham and Jennis Oprasert, the film portrays a father and daughter learning to coexist in their new home amidst supernatural horrors of the Djinn, and their grief following the loss o...

For the North American premiere of their film #สมมติSupposed at #NYAFF2024, actors Ananda Everingham and Pat Chayanit joined me to talk about how their characters Non and Dear build a romance while not showing their true selves to each other. สมมติ SUPPOSED  @MajorGroup  was written and directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan, who passed away in 2020. #CarolynTalks #ThaiFilm #AsianCinema #Interv...

In this Interview for #CarolynTalks, I speak with Director Atta Hemwadee, actors Anthony "Tony" Buisseret, Thitiya “Baipor” Jirapornsilp, and producer Baz Poonpiriya for their film NOT FRIENDS, about a group of students who in the quest to make the perfect short film in memory of their friend Joe, realize the importance of cherishing the people in our lives before they're gone. #NotFriends #เพื่อน...

Writer and Director Razieme Iborra joined Carolyn Talks..., to chat about recontextualizing the idea of what a "Cowgirl" is in her documentary HOW THE WEST WAS ONE. In the film, Razieme follows three young women, Elle, Annie, and Morgan as they define what being a 'Cowgirl' means to them, and their place in the American west. #CarolynTalks #Documentary #Interview #FilmCritic Visit Razieme's offici...