Following our previous interview with Ben Kent, director of Killer Weekend, we revisit the production in its week of release. 

Watch Killer Weekend now on iTunes: https://t.co/gFzqAJJJ25

Presented and produced by Nick Hilton.

With Ben Kent.

This podcast is co-published by CineVue – visit cine-vue.com for the latest film reviews, features, interviews and festival coverage.

Theme music is Smokin Sticks by Grandbankss.

This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising contact nick@podotpods.com

On this week's episode of Establishing Shots, Nick Hilton is talking to Sheyma Buali director of the BBC Arabic Festival, about programming a festival focused on films from the Arab world, what it takes to make a great Arabic film in 2019, and whether we're seeing progress in people's appetite for world cinema.

To find out more about the BBC Arabic Festival (including trailers for all the films discussed on the show and ticket information) visit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4GfCz5WkKzscrmhW8bg8CBC/films-and-documentaries-from-today-s-arab-world

Presented and produced by Nick Hilton.

With Sheyma Buali.

This podcast is co-published by CineVue – visit cine-vue.com for the latest film reviews, features, interviews and festival coverage.

Theme music is Smokin Sticks by Grandbankss.

This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising contact nick@podotpods.com

On this week's Establishing Shots, Nick Hilton is speaking to writer/director Ben Kent about his new feature film, horror/comedy F.U.B.A.R. Ben is an Academy Award winning VFX software developer, now making a go of it in the world of comedy writing and director, so the discussion naturally centres on transitioning roles in the film industry and how to make sure that you visual effects are up to snuff.

Presented and produced by Nick Hilton.

With Ben Kent.

This podcast is co-published by CineVue – visit cine-vue.com for the latest film reviews, features, interviews and festival coverage.

Theme music is Smokin Sticks by Grandbankss.

This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising contact nick@podotpods.com

Our guest this week is Yann Demange, director of 2014's '71 and now White Boy Rick, starring Matthew McConaughey. He discusses the challenges of making a 'genre hopping' film in America, the differences between the British and American film industries, and how he hopes to be making even more personal films in the future.

Presented and produced by Nick Hilton.

With Yann Demange.

This podcast is co-published by CineVue – visit cine-vue.com for the latest film reviews, features, interviews and festival coverage.

Theme music is Smokin Sticks by Grandbankss.

This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising contact nick@podotpods.com

Our guest this week is Victoria Mapplebeck, the director of 160 Characters and Missed Call, two short documentaries about her son, both filmed on iPhones. She is also a reader in Digital Arts at Royal Holloway university, where she also convenes their Documentary MA programme. She talks about making films with your iPhone, finding funding for documentaries in the UK, and whether VR (Virtual Reality) is the future of documentary filmmaking.

Missed Call directed by Victoria Mapplebeck won the Social Media Short Award at The AHRC Research in Film Awards which took place at BAFTA on November 8 2018.

Presented and produced by Nick Hilton.

With Victoria Mapplebeck.

This podcast is co-published by CineVue – visit cine-vue.com for the latest film reviews, features, interviews and festival coverage.

Theme music is Smokin Sticks by Grandbankss.

This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising contact nick@podotpods.com

On this week's Establishing Shots, we're talking to the cast of the new Coen Brothers movie, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. We're joined by Tim Blake Nelson and Harry Melling, and Zoe Kazan and Bill Heck, to cover a range of subjects including working for such revered filmmakers, shooting a film for Netflix, and the similarities (and differences!) between the Coen Brothers and Nancy Meyers.

Presented and produced by Nick Hilton.

This podcast is co-published by CineVue – visit cine-vue.com for the latest film reviews, features, interviews and festival coverage.

Theme music is Smokin Sticks by Grandbankss.

This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising contact nick@podotpods.com

On this week's episode of Establishing Shots, we're joined by Morgan Neville the Academy Award winning director of 20 Feet From Stardom, Best of Enemies and now Won't You Be My Neighbor? The documentary was a huge hit in the US and is now coming to Britain. Morgan joined us to discuss the message and success of the film, and how it holds up in 2018 against more overtly political documentary filmmaking.

Presented and produced by Nick Hilton.

This podcast is co-published by CineVue – visit cine-vue.com for the latest film reviews, features, interviews and festival coverage.

Theme music is Smokin Sticks by Grandbankss.

This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising contact nick@podotpods.com