A young man’s livelihood is put to the test when he gets profiled and stopped by the police on his way home from practice.
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April 2022
Q&A with Ted Braun
What was your original artistic challenge when you were approached with this project? A profile of one person is quite different than your previous work.
Ted Braun: The previous films I’ve done, feature documentaries I’ve done (Betting on Zero, which looked at allegations of global economic criminality, and Darfur Now, which looked at allegations of massive, systemic violent crimes in Sudan) were, in different ways, ensemble stories about people trying to expose wrongdoing.
November 2013
Q&A with Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, and Philomena Lee
How did you come across the book and what compelled you to champion this project?
Coogan: I was in New York making a film. And because my career’s been in comedy—I’ve written a lot of television comedy— I wanted to find something more substantial, that had more substance.
July 2015
Q&A with Oona Laurence and Jake Gyllenhaal
How did you two work together on the big dramatic scenes?
Those scenes were difficult, they’re really emotional.
October 2015
Q&A with Michael Fassbender, Jeff Daniels, Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, and Kate Winslet
How did you develop this story?
Aaron Sorkin: I like claustrophobic spaces and compressed periods of time, especially when there’s a ticking clock. I like being behind the scenes, in this case literally behind the scenes.
February 2023
Q&A with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Helen Hood Scheer
How did you two come to work on this project together?
We started working on what we thought would be a triptych, looking at sex, birth, and death on screen from a women’s perspective. We started the one about sex and it was an avalanche of ideas and people and different actors that we wanted to speak with, and that’s really where it began.
August 2020
Q&A with Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil and Jane Adams
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of She Dies Tomorrow. Can you talk about the origin of this project? Amy Seimetz: I was dealing with a lot of anxiety and I realized that to alleviate the anxiety I was talking to my friends – namely Kate Lyn […]
May 2025
Q&A with Laura Piani and Camille Rutherford
Laura, let’s start with the title. I had to laugh—Jane Austen doesn’t wreck anyone’s life… or does she?
Laura Piani: It all started years ago, when I worked night shifts at Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
May 2024
Q&A with Jane Shoenbrun and Brigette Lundy-Paine
Speaking of actually having a greater scale and a greater budget, what was the coolest special effect that you got to deploy in this film?
JS: I mean, I loved making the monsters. From the very beginning, I remember thinking, for the next film? Let’s go monsters.
November 2017
NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW ANNOUNCES 2017 AWARD WINNERS
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW NAMES THEIR 2017 HONOREES INCLUDING THE POST FOR BEST FILM OF THE YEAR & GRETA GERWIG FOR BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR The Organization’s Gala will be held on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 in New York City New York, NY (November 28, 2017) – The National Board of Review today […]
