POV

The Way We Get By
October 13, 2009

Aron Gaudet and Gita Pillapully talk about their backgrounds in television news, and how the film was both a professional and personal journey for them as a couple.

The English Surgeon
August 31, 2009

Geoffrey Smith talks about working with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, who created the soundtrack for The English Surgeon and what it was like filming the scene of Marian's brain surgery.

Ella Es el Matador (She Is the Matador)
August 24, 2009

POV: Can you describe the film stylistically? What influenced your aesthetic decisions on the film? Celeste Carrasco and Gemma Cubero Celeste Carrasco: Making this film has been a real learning process. We had so many restrictions, due partly to lack...

Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
July 20, 2009

Filmmaker Kim Longinotto talks about her filmmaking process, the intensity of shooting vérité documentaries and how her editor, Ollie Huddleston, instilled in her the importance of the long shot.

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
July 16, 2009

Filmmakers Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk "Thavi" Phrasavath talk about the process of shooting and editing a film over a 23-year period.

The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court
July 8, 2009

Editor Peter Kinoy talks about the three-year process of making and editing The Reckoning, the challenge of finding the story within the footage and what he hopes audiences will get out of the film.

Life. Support. Music.
June 29, 2009

Director, cinematographer, editor and writer Eric Daniel Metzgar talks about why being a one-man show was necessary for the making of Life. Support. Music..

Beyond Hatred
June 15, 2009

Filmmaker Olivier Meyrou talks about the difference between recording sound and shooting on camera, and explains why he spent months interviewing the Chenu family and recording sound with them before his camera crew arrived.

Up the Yangtze
October 6, 2008

Filmmaker Yung Chang discusses two scenes from Up the Yangtze

Calavera Highway
September 16, 2008

On September 9, 2008, Calavera Highway filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña, film score composer Rene Gasca and subject Armando Peña joined KPFK radio host Betto Arcos to talk about the music featured in the film. Listen to the podcast, or read through the transcript below.