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Homa Taj in Conversation with French Filmmaker Agnès Varda Who’s to Be Honored at #Cannes2015

This conversation between Homa Taj and Agnès Varda was recorded in person at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on November 10, 2013. The marvelously talented French filmmaker, artist, producer and screenwriter Agnès Varda will (finally!) receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the 68th Cannes Film Festival, which start today. Varda’s predecessors who have received honorary […]

[VIDEO] Maria’s Comet 1847: A short film by Homa Taj

Dedicated to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Maria’s Comet 1847 vi is a short film by Homa Taj (IMDb) based on a biographical poem written by Irish-born poet, Frank J Cunningham. The former New Yorker (Southampton, LI), and long-time Nantucket resident was inspired by his friendship with a young native islander whom he met via Big Brothers Big Sisters […]

[VIDEO] Homa Taj In Conversation with Nicholas Wrathall, Director of GORE VIDAL

I saw GORE VIDAL: The United States of Amnesia the new film by Australian-born filmmaker, Nicholas Wrathall, late last week, shortly after it had premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary is one of the most engaging biographical portrayals of a great American author & thinker whom we all – well, at least most of us […]

[VIDEO] Homa Taj In Conversation with Sebastian Junger on HBO’s Tim Hetherton Documentary

  Last month, I met Sebastian Junger, the renowned American author, journalist and documentary filmmaker who is best known for his international best-seller The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against The Sea (1997). On his last major work Restrepo (2010), Junger worked with – co-wrote/directed/shot Restrepo – the late British-American photojournalist Tim Hetherington (December 1970–April 2011). Hetherington […]

[VIDEO] Homa Taj In Conversation with Jaie Laplante, Exec Dir of MIAMI Film Fest

I met Canadian-born Jaie Laplante, the Executive Director of the Miami International Film Festival, earlier this week during the #MiamiFF XXX, at The Standard Hotel and Spa. Laplante had worked as a producer, a programmer at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and an associate director at Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Laplante joined […]

Homa Taj In Conversation with Dutch Artist Jeroen Evertz

NAME: Jeroen Evertz (1973)Born: Trintelen (NL)Lives in: Maastricht (NL) Artist’s statement – ‘I like to remember things my way, not necessarily the way they happened’ – Fred Madison Because of often contradictory interests, it is hard to decide what is real and who decides what is real nowadays: advertisements, politics, technology, nature or we? I […]

Homa Taj In Conversation with Dutch Artist Bas de Wit

Bas de Wit (1977)Born in: Budel, The NetherlandsLives in: Maastricht, The NetherlandsDealer: Figge von Rosen Galerie (Berlin/Cologne) Artist’s statement –Making monuments to the huge fiasco of your very own enthusiasm MV – Favourite movie(s) & director(s) –My Top 5000 List begins with: Stanley Kubrick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest); Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove), Mary Poppins (the […]