The MacGuffin

Brandi interviews Miranda July, writer/director/actress of The Future, which screened at SIFF.

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Spencer interviews Bob Ingersoll, from the film Project Nim, which screened at SIFF.

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Spencer interviews Wonder Russell, writer/producer/actress of and .

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Spencer interviews Matt Walsh, director of High Road, which screened at SIFF. The final screening of the film is happening on Tuesday, June 7th at 9:30. Tickets are available here.

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John interviews Justin Chadwick, director of The First Grader, which was the opening night film at SIFF.

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Spencer interviews Nathan Stanton, story supervisor at Pixar on Cars 2, while he was in town to give a presentation at SIFF.

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Spencer conducts a series of interviews with cast and crew members from the film LOVE, which is part of SIFF: Tom DeLonge (Executive Producer); Will Eubank (Director/Writer/Cinematographer/Production Designer); and Gunner Wright (Actor).

The film’s final screening at SIFF is on June 11th at 9:30pm at the Egyptian Theatre.

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Spencer interviews Kevin Tomlinson, director of the documentary Back to the Garden.

SPOILER WARNING: The following interview contains conversations about things in the film “Win Win” that may be considered spoilers. If you would rather see the film first, simply bookmark this page and come back to it after. Thank you.

With his new film Win Win now in theaters, writer/director and actor Tom McCarthy is now on his third film. This time around, Tom has set his story sights on suburban America and the age old sport of Greco-Roman wrestling. The film, like his two previous works The Station Agent and The Visitor, is one part character study, one part genre film, and two parts the world through Tom’s lens. For the press tour for the film, I was given an opportunity to sit down with Tom and discuss the film’s characters and his personal take on the stories he chooses to tell. He is a very well-spoken, intelligent person with a unique voice in film today.

SPOILER WARNING: The following interview contains conversations about things in the film “Win Win” that may be considered spoilers. If you would rather see the film first, simply bookmark this page and come back to it after. Thank you.

In the new film Win Win, actor Alex Shaffer portrays the film’s young star Kyle, a wrestling prodigy who shows up in a small town and helps a losing team become one of the best in the state. At 16 years of age, this is Alex’s first feature film, basically his first acting of any sort. With the precision of a well-practiced actor, Alex embodies the disaffected Kyle and brings to the film a well-balanced cast of characters that make it one of the best comedies of the year. I recently sat down with Alex while he was in Seattle as part of the press tour for the film. The first thing I learned was that Alex is nothing like his character, he is very outwardly friendly and very upbeat.