Interview Exclusives Archives - Behind The Lens Online https://behindthelensonline.net/site/category/interviews/interview-exclusives/ a division of elias entertainment network Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:10:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/btl-msd-icon-90x90.jpg Interview Exclusives Archives - Behind The Lens Online https://behindthelensonline.net/site/category/interviews/interview-exclusives/ 32 32 Into the Swamp: Writer/Director PADRAIG REYNOLDS Gets Practical with GATOR FACE – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/padraig-reynolds-gator-face-interview/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:10:22 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43017 For PADRAIG REYNOLDS, “It doesn’t matter if it’s an indie budget. The number one thing is safety,” he says.

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]]> Producer JONATHAN SOTHCOTT Talks The Art of Making What You Have Work For You with KNIGHTFALL – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/jonathan-sothcott-interview-knightfall/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:33:35 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43023 “I come from the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking, which is if you find an asset, you find a way of incorporating it into the movie.”

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]]> MARCO VAN BELLE Feeds an Ancient Evil Into a Modern World with FEED – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/marco-van-belle-interview-feed/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:33:13 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43025 “I was very relieved to find that the first power, the original power ascribed to vampires in Irish and European legends, was mind control,” says van Belle. And mind control, he realized, is influence.

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]]> MICHAEL W. GRAY Takes a Swing at Memory, Family, and Nostalgia with AMERICAN SUMMER – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/michael-gray-interview-american-summer/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:41:14 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43027 Michael W. Gray didn’t set out to make AMERICAN SUMMER because he wanted to recreate a simpler time. He set out to make the kind of movie his father wished still existed.

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]]> SCOTT WAUGH Hits His Stride with RUNNER with Action, Emotion, and Finding the Poetry in the Ride – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/scott-waugh-runner-interview/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:14:25 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=42835 RUNNER reveals something more about Scott Waugh —something Waugh himself now recognizes when he says, “I think I found my stride.”

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]]> CHRISTOPHER PINERO Finds Terror in What We Don’t See – and What We Don’t Hear – in THE PROWLER – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/chris-pinero-the-prowler/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:01:57 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=42841     Silence can be terrifying.  Not movie silence. Not the manufactured quiet that telegraphs the inevitable crash, scream or jump scare waiting somewhere on the other side of the frame.  Real silence. The kind that leaves you alone with the sound of your own footsteps. A refrigerator door opening. Silverware shifting inside a kitchen drawer. Crickets […]

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]]> CASPER KELLY Goes Over the Fence and Takes Children’s Television to the Dark Side with BUDDY – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/casper-kelly-buddy-interview/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:25:39 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=42819 With BUDDY, CASPER KELLY doesn't "want it to be just a good time. I want people to have a good time. But if you want to dig deeper, I want there to be things in the ground for you to find if you do dig deeper."

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]]> BRANDO BENETTON Keeps Changing the Angle with THE GIRL IN THE RIVER – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/brando-benetton-the-girl-in-the-river-interview/ https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/brando-benetton-the-girl-in-the-river-interview/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:40:11 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=42843 According to BRANDO BENETTON, "Instead of feeling exhausted after making this movie...it only made all of us so more excited to be like, okay, what’s next!"

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]]> https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/brando-benetton-the-girl-in-the-river-interview/feed/ 1 Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks on Blood, Beauty, and Becoming One with the Light with BLOOD SHINE – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/blood-shine-interview-emily-bennett-justin-brooks/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:00:02 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=42821 Rather than cloak terror in darkness, Bennett and Brooks wanted to create "horror in the daylight," allowing menace to flourish in fully illuminated, sun-drenched spaces

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]]> The Weight of History and the Lifeline of a Radio: MARK FRYDMAN on LUCKY STRIKE, War, and the Stories That Never Let Go – Exclusive Interview https://behindthelensonline.net/site/interviews/interview-exclusives/mark-frydman-lucky-strike/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:15:42 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=42784 As Mark Frydman relates, the seed of LUCKY STRIKE is not a logline or a concept. It is a teenager in Europe, a school trip, and a room full of men who had once crossed oceans under fire.

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