SXSW Q&A

A few weeks ago, SXSW hosted a special midnight screening of Red Riding Hood. Below is the Q&A with Catherine Hardwicke, Shiloh Fernandez, and Sarah Blakley-Cartwright.

Another SXSW Interview with Shiloh & Catherine

Catherine Hardwicke Interview from SXSW

Part One: Red Riding Hood bestseller book tie-ins, films she wanted to make but couldn’t, Hamlet, trying to get on The Fighter, aiming at the teen girl demo, the odds against women filmmakers, creating fairy tale world and bad-ass bo-ho granny with dreadlocks (Julie Christie).  

Part Two: Hair styles, building village on soundstage, aerial shot of Red Riding Hood with red cape, Heironymous Bosch paintings, keeping it contemporary. 

Part Three: Male film critics and the Twilight factor, not doing the sequel. 

Part Four: Working with Amanda Seyfried. Critics vs. audiences, roller coaster careers, indie vs. studio. 

SXSW: Catherine Hardwicke Packs 'Em In for Director's Workshop

Saturday afternoon, Catherine Hardwicke packed her large room at the convention center with those sitting in for her director’s workshop. Her Red Riding Hood star Shiloh Fernandez was also there onstage as Hardwicke walked those in attendance—including more than a few filmmakers with work in the festival—through scenes, shot lists, images and location sketches from Twilight, Thirteen and Red Riding Hood.

Fernandez (no relation), who plays Peter in Red Riding, chimed in on her methods for working with actors in rehearsal and on set. Hardwicke took questions from the crowd and zeroed in on areas interesting to them, such as how she shoots women in scenes of physical intimacy and the camerawork and design for the through-the-treetops scene between Edward and Bella in Twilight. Her assistant Amanda cued the clips and storyboards on a giant screen to her right.

Hardwicke managed to roll out some concrete advice, but one of the most illustrative moments was when she cued a short video called "Thirteen in 30 Seconds" as a way to show how her use of color correction expressed the emotional content of the film’s storyline. The movie unspooled in super-fast motion, and since it rolled too fast to catch any specific images, you were left to focus on how the dullness of the early parts of the movie steadily grew into more vibrant colors and then became blown out as the main character’s life went off the rails, only returning to the muted, almost black-and-white tone of the ending.

(In the conference room next door, Hangover II director Todd Phillips was talking mean-spirited comedy and left-footed characters with Elvis Mitchell.)

Afterward, Hardwicke was off to hang out at Richard Linklater’s ranch – she did production design on his locally shot western The Newton Boys back in 1998. Fernandez was looking to see some movies and hang with the filmmakers of his previous film Skateland, which played SXSW last year.

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SXSW Interview with Catherine Hardwicke and Shiloh Fernandez

Red Riding Hood Premiere at SXSW

Check out all the images here.

SXSW Red Riding Hood Book Signing

In addition to the Midnight Screening/ Q&A and Directing Workshop, Catherine Hardwicke will be at book signing for Red Riding Hood: From Script to Screen.

 

The signing will be held Friday, March 11th at 2:30 pm. Click here for more details. 

SXSW is turning into Catherine-palooza! I'm insanely jealous of anyone out there getting to attend any of these events. I met Catherine back in October in Portland, OR and listening to her discuss her work was a fantastic experience.

Special Red Riding Hood Midnight Premiere at SXSW Festival

The SXSW festival will be hosting a special midnight screening of Red Riding Hood. Those in attendence will also be treated to a Q& A after the movie with Catherine Hardwicke.

From the festival's site:

Red Riding Hood - Special Screening

Director: Catherine Hardwicke, Writer: David Leslie Johnson

Catherine Hardwicke will be present for Q&A following this special screening of her latest film, on Thursday, March 10 at midnight. In the film, a werewolf terrorizes a small village, especially when the people discover that, by day, the beast could be anyone. And one young woman discovers that she has a unique connection to the wolf that makes her both suspect…and bait.

Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons

Hardwicke will also be in attendence Saturday, March 12th for a Directing Workshop.

If any of you out there will be in attendance, one word: JEALOUS! Hearing Catherine Hardwicke talk about her work in Portland was AMAZING and if I could afford it, I would be on the first plane to Texas.