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Delusional Downtown Divas director Lena Dunham: The Media Diet

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By Brandon Harris posted 10 months ago
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Already a veteran of original web production, writer/director/actress Lena Dunham first popped up on the cinephile radar screen with her terrific 2007 Slamdance short Dealing. She followed that up with an Nerve.com original serial Tight Shots, and this week she debuts a hysterical new web serial Downtown Delusional Divas on Index Magazine’s newly redesigned site. We caught up with her to discuss watching Helen Mirren play a homicide detective, why she hasn’t gotten around to reading Anna Karenina and what Lynn Ramsay and Tori Amos could do together. …Read more

Children of Invention director Tze Chun: The Media Diet

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By Brandon Harris posted 11 months ago
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After making a big splash at Sundance several years ago with his hysterical short Windowbreaker, the incredibly prolific and versatile Tze Chun, who in the five years since graduating from Columbia’s undergrad Film Studies program in 02′ has made a whopping 12 low budget short films, will be back in Park City this year with his debut feature, Children of Invention. A feature length version of Windowbreaker, it follows two young Asian children living illegally in a model apartment who are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears. We caught up with Tze (pronounced “Z”) to discuss his adoration for inappropriately long Charlie Kaufman interviews, his desire to adapt portions of Virginia Woolf and in what capacity Richard Kern and Britney Spear might become friends. …Read more