Gavin Hood is no stranger to political filmmaking. He won the Oscar™ for TSOTSI, about the question of race in his native South Africa, and in what should have been and Oscar™-nominated turn with EYE IN THE SKY, he brought home the human toll of drone warfare in the Middle East. With OFFICIAL SECRETS, he… Read More »
Gavin Hood on EYE IN THE SKY
Gavin Hood not only directed EYE IN THE SKY, the erstwhile actor also took a small role as a military officer overseeing drone pilots. It was one of the things we didn’t have time to talk about on March 2, 2016 when we sat down to discuss his brilliant new film that respects its audience,… Read More »
Gavin Hood Tells the Story of TSOTSI
Gavin Hood felt that there was more than just an Oscar ™ riding on the success of TSOTSI, based on the novel by Athol Fugard and South Africa’s official entry for the 2005 Best Foreign Film Academy Award ™. It’s one of the many things we talked about when I interviewed him on February 10, 2006. … Read More »