Mr. Bong's virtues as a filmmaker, including his snaking storytelling and refusal to overexplain actions and behaviors, can here feel like evasions or indulgences rather than fully thought-out choices.
Astra Taylor is a writer, documentary filmmaker (including Zizek! and Examined Life), and activist.
Filmmakers include Vadim, Buñuel, Truffaut, Varda, Chabrol, Colline Serreau, Tonie Marshall.
Contributing filmmakers include Errol Morris, Laura Poitras, Alan Berliner, Alex Gibney, Casey Neistat, Victor Kossakovsky, Lucy Walker, Abigail Disney, Roger Ross Williams, Jessica Yu, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.
Filmmakers include: Ousmane Sembene, Djibril Mambety Diop, Euzhan Palcy, and Sarah Maldoror.
Other topics addressed by this year's student filmmakers include gentrification in Boston, the role of religion in shaping individuals and the experience of an Ethiopian political refugee.
The filmmakers include ardent Democrats, dismayed former Bush supporters and Paramount's studio chief, Sherry Lansing, who was one of John Kerry's earliest supporters in Hollywood.
His favorite writers/ filmmakers include Shakespeare, Aristophanes, Euripides, Dickens, Kurosawa, De Sica, Farhadi, Mungiu, Dardenne Brothers and many more.
Attending filmmakers include Asif Kapadia, Jennifer Fox, Karim El Hakim, Rajan Khosa, Guy Davidi and Umesh Kulkarni.
