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26/08/2025

My latest article for Scriptmag.com / Script Magazine:

Susan Kouguell shares her top highlights from the 2025 Locarno Film Festival.

23/07/2025

Susan Kouguell interviews Frédéric Hambalek about his new feature film ‘What Marielle Knows’ at Tribeca Festival.

https://scriptmag.com/interview-with-what-marielle-knows-filmmaker-frederic-hambalek

23/07/2025

My interview for Scriptmag.com / Script Magazine

Susan Kouguell interviews Frédéric Hambalek about his new feature film ‘What Marielle Knows’ at Tribeca Festival.

https://scriptmag.com/interview-with-what-marielle-knows-filmmaker-frederic-hambalek

02/07/2025

A great pleasure to interview Joel Perez about his short film VILLA ENCANTO at Tribeca for Scriptmag.com / Script Magazineptmag.com / Script Magazine.
http://bit.ly/3FM9Ljt

Susan Kouguell interviews Joel Perez, recipient of the COLECTIVO, a new filmmaker program through Tribeca Studios and the Miranda Family Fund, about his new short film Villa Encanto at Tribeca Festival.

02/07/2025

My Script Magazine Interview with "Honeyjoon" writer and director Lilian Mehrel about her debut feature at 2025 Tribeca Festival

Susan Kouguell chats with the award-winning writer and director about her feature film debut, blending lightness and darkness in her writing, and more.

02/07/2025

My Script Magazine Interview with A STRING Filmmaker Isabel Hagen (and fellow violist) about her debut feature at Tribeca Festival

Susan Kouguell chats with writer, director, producer, and star Isabel Hagen about her film debut, how she found stand-up comedy amidst her Julliard training in classical viola, and more.

31/05/2025

Remembering Academy award-winning director Marcel Ophüls who recently passed (1927-2025). In 2015, I had the privilege to meet Ophüls when my colleague, Regina Longo, interviewed him at SUNY Purchase for our film program. Here’s a repost of my 2015 article for SydneysBuzzBuzz about this memorable event.

A Conversation with Academy Award-Winning Director Marcel Ophüls

06/05/2025

It was a great pleasure to interview filmmaker Paul Hunter about his new series GOVERNMENT CHEESE for AppleTV+

Paul Hunter talks about the inspiration for his new series, breaking the rules of TV, and creating outside of the box.

16/01/2025

My Scriptmag.com / Script Magazine Interview with A COMPLETE UNKNOWN editors Andrew Buckland and Scott Morris.

Andrew Buckland and Scott Morris delved into their close collaboration with each other and director James Mangold, discussing the challenges of editing live performances, integrating archival footage and sound, and creating the narrative and musical rhythms of the film.

14/01/2025

My Scriptmag.com / Script Magazine Interview with 'The Brutalist' Filmmakers Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold.

Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold talk about their award-winning film 'The Brutalist', including their writing collaboration, the sacrifices and support within creative partnerships, their personal connections to architecture, and the challenges of funding films.

14/01/2025

My Scriptmag.com / Script Magazine interview with The Seed of the Sacred Fig Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof.

In this wide-ranging discussion, Mohammad Rasoulof reflects on his many years of dealing with censorship and the intelligence services, his imprisonments, his challenges in balancing the story for Iranian and non-Iranian audiences, and the time and safety constraints making the film clandestinely.

13/12/2024

Susan's Interview for Script Magazine RaMell Ross and Nicholas Monsour delve into their collaboration, discuss the film’s nontraditional structure, the unconventional screenwriting process, point-of-view, and so much more. When covering the 2024 New York Film Festival for this publication I highlighted Nickel Boys, and since then I was eager to chat with RaMell Ross one-on-one. Our conversation did not disappoint and in fact, the bonus for this interview was speaking with Ross together with his editor…...

Interview with Oscar-Nominated 'Nickel Boys' Writer and Director RaMell Ross and Editor Nicholas Monsour about their new film.