Daniel Bergmann talks new directing talent
The Managing Partner of Stink Films, a YDA 2020 Producers Award-winner, on the company's approach to nurturing new talent, what you need to be successful and why the YDA matters.
Why new directing talent matters
UK production company You Are Here picked up the Gold Producers Award at the 2020 YDA. Here, the company's MD and EP, Jeremy Goold, explains the importance of nurturing new talent.
Loïc Andrieu answers his Call Of The Wild
The YDA-winning director discusses how a genre-bending movie concept led to awards gold.
YDA winner Natasha Mynhier delivers In A Beat
Natasha Mynhier, the winner of the Mid-Length Film (30 to 60 mins) - Northern America category at this year's Young Director Award, talks to us about how she crafted this powerful film.
Jakub Jirásek talks accidental adolescent terrorism
With his darkly comedic short Don't Be A Pussy picking up a Gold at this year's YDA, Jirásek tells Jamie Madge how a film for his Master's Degree ended up evolving into a biting satire on social status.
YDA winner Jackson Tisi introduces us to Leon
Jackson Tisi, the winner of the Passion Project - Northern America category at this year's Young Director Award, talks about the process behind making his documentary Leon, and about the man himself.
YDA winner Dylan Holmes Williams sings The Devils Harmony
Dylan Holmes Williams, the winner of the short film category at this year's Young Director Award's, discusses the inspiration behind The Devils Harmony, his film about a bullied teenage girl that leads an A cappella club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies.
YDA winners Christina Amundsen and Emilie Thalund help stop the violence
Christina Amundsen and Emilie Thalund, the winners of the charity commercial category at this year's Young Director Award, discuss the inspiration, and the making of Isolation, their film about ending violence against children.
How a wait in the RAINN made way for YDA Gold
SMUGGLER director Samantha Scaffidi talks to Jamie Madge about how her acting background and sensitivity to the subject matter made her film for anti-sexual assault organisation RAINN the most urgent PSA of the year.
For Andzej Gavriss, one moment You're Born, the next you win a YDA
The Latvian director talks about the ice baths and elegant camerawork that led to his Young Director Gold.
YDA winner Phoebe Arnstein's immersive film
We the Bathers is a short film about bathing, and people's relationship with it. Here, director Phoebe Arnstein discusses the beautiful and intimate portraits she captured for her award-winning film.
Farhad Ghaderi on finding a YDA win in a Virtuous Circle
Ghaderi's music video perfectly portraying brotherly love picked up a Gold at this year's Young Director Award. Jamie Madge zoomed over to Canada to ask him how he captured gritty familial magic on 16mm.