![]() ![]() I think especially for a comedy because, to laugh alone on your sofa is different than with a lot of a people where it’s contagious, so I think now we know better than before the pandemic that to watch a movie is also a collective experience, not only a lonely experience. Swiss Embassy USA: How do you feel about the moviegoing experience and the importance of in-person screenings?įontana: I know it’s going to be a little bit more rare in a way, less frequent to watch a movie in person but for me it’s completely different. I speak specifically about Netflix, so it’s very important to have an editorial line just to guide the audience, to watch a movie for a specific reason and fragile movies have a lot to give to cinema and I think it’s very important to support it. Swiss Embassy USA: What do you think of the importance of film festivals supporting small independent cinema?įontana: I think it’s completely essential, and especially now, because of VOD platforms you have a lot of content and no way to navigate through the amount of films available. Azor, I mean I’m not from high society and I’m not from Argentine high society but I was very interested in this possibility to go inside this very specific world, for me it was very fascinating. I do cinema, I do movies to meet people and to have this experience of sharing something with different people and finding something in common. Swiss Embassy USA: What was the most exciting part about making this movie?įontana: Also the country, because it’s a very interesting country. Swiss Embassy USA: What was the biggest challenge of making this movie?įontana: Well, Argentina, I’ve been living there for a long time, it’s a very wild country and you have to be very sure of your project and your own desire because it’s difficult to be there and to live there, difficult people follow you on your project. Swiss Embassy USA: What’s the biggest challenge of being a filmmaker?įontana: It’s like to be a poet and you can die on your way, there’s no security, it’s enough as a risk. I’m not here to control the experience I hope the audience is going to experience something very personal and maybe look for something very intimate but then all the rest is up to the audience. Swiss Embassy USA: What is the one key thing you hope the audience will take away from the film?įontana: I think cinema is an experience of the audience. So Chandler is a fiction inspiration and documentary is another one. ![]() I’m interested in this kind of documentary style cinema. Azor is on one hand a investigation about a missing person, and the other hand it’s just an anthropological study. Swiss Embassy USA: What was the inspiration behind Azor?įontana: Maybe Raymond Chandler is a huge inspiration for me, it’s more literature but I’m much more inspired by books than cinema. But when I was a child I went with my mother to a Hitchcock retrospective, it was raining the whole week while we were on holiday, we had nothing to do so we went to this retrospective in Geneva, I have a vivid memory of Hitchcock’s first movie, yes. Swiss Embassy USA: What’s the first movie that really made an impression on you?įontana: I am a very chaotic cinephile, I remember a different movie everyday so it’s very difficult to define a specific movie. Swiss Embassy USA: Any director in particular from that period? This is a very strong cinema period for me. I’m a fan of the new Hollywood period in the 60s and 70s. Swiss Embassy USA: What’s your favorite American movie?įontana: Too many movies to choose from. If not a city it could be a national park like Yellowstone or some place in the countryside. Swiss Embassy USA: What would you say is your favorite city in the U.S.?įontana: New York is very fascinating but I am a lover of countrysides. It was very nice but it was a long time ago. When I was 15 I did a road trip with my family through Colorado, Las Vegas, San Francisco. Swiss Embassy USA: Have you traveled much in the U.S.?įontana: I’ve been to New York several times. It’s very pleasant to walk around, there are a lot of parks and green spaces. ![]() Swiss Embassy USA: As this is your first time in DC, what are your first impressions, what struck you the most?įontana: I’ve been here for one day, It’s interesting it seems to be a very rich city, progressive, I think it’s not very representative of the whole country, maybe I’m mistaken but I think it’s different, I don’t think it’s representative of the country and of what America is. Film Producer Andreas Fontana (Credit: Swiss Embassy USA) ![]()
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