interviews

Festivals and Junkets

From 2003 to 2015 I represented NBC Global Networks Italia in Rome, London and at the Venice Film Festival; conducting hundreds of interviews and managing content for broadcast. The movie media circus is a curious environment, but interviewing – often for only a few minutes, sometimes for over an hour – many of the most interesting and talented actors, writers and directors, both legends and new-comers, from across the international spectrum was an extraordinary experience. From Mel Brooks to a then unknown Heath Ledger, from Alfonso Cuarón to Bernardo Bertolucci, Pedro Almodòvar, Jane Birkin, Ken Watanabe, Tilda Swinton, Takeshi Kitano, Tim Burton, Yorgos Lanthimos... Whether it's talking to the late Gene Wilder at his home in Connecticut, or astronaut Buzz Aldrin in a hotel on Via Veneto, it's impossible not to engage with brilliant minds without learning something.

The most significant interviews can be viewed on my YouTube Channel: @KGSMMediaCache

Diego Abatantuono – Luigi Abete – Anton Adasinskiy – Casey Affleck – Ben Affleck – Riz Ahmed – Buzz Aldrin – Jaime Alexander – Michele Alhaique – Pedro Almodòvar – Uccio Aloisi – Aureliano Amadei – Vincenzo Amato – Gianni Amelio – Elena Anaya – Wes Anderson – Roberto Andò – Fanny Ardant – Darren Aronofsky – Neslihan Atagül – Enrico Maria Atale – Rowan Atkinson – Pernilla August – Enzo Avitabile – Carlos Bachschmidt – Jaume Balaguero – Dario Baldi – Christian Bale – Antonio Banderas – Giuseppe Battiston – Sean Bean – Anna Bellato – Maria Bello – Marco Bellocchio – Monica Bellucci – Andre Benjamin – Marisa Berenson – Jorgan Bergmark – Shari Berman – Bernardo Bertolucci – Alessandro Besentini – Giulia Bevilacqua – Juliette Binoche – Jane Birkin – Jacqueline Bisset – Selma Blair – Cate Blanchett – Orlando Bloom – Barbora Bobulova – Marco Bocci – Alberto Boll – Anna Bonaiuto – Helena Bonham Carter – Alessio Boni – Ernest Borgnine – Danny Boyle – Kenneth Branagh – Adam Brody – Josh Brolin – Peter Brook – Simon Brook – Mel Brooks – Sandra Bullock – Ellen Burstyn – Tim Burton – Gerard Butler – Michael Caine – Ricky Canelli – Laurent Cantet – Anita Caprioli – Valentina Carnelutti – Nikki Caro – Jennifer Carpenter – Keith Carradine – Vincent Cassel – Sergio Castellitto – Alfredo Castro – Kim Cattrall – Alberto Caviglia – Giorgia Cecere – Ascanio Celestini – Michael Cera – Michela Cescon – Jackie Chan – Chao Bin Su – Sammi Cheng – Patrice Chéreau – Francesco Chiarello – Patric Chiha – Ching Chu – Michael Cimino – Patricia Clarkson – George Clooney – David Coco – Diablo Cody – Isabel Coixet – Giada Collagrande – Rolando Colla – Cristina Comencini – Jennifer Connelly – Abbey Cornish – Kevin Costner – Wes Craven – Carolina Crescenti – Max Croci – David Cronenberg – Cameron Crowe – Tom Cruise – Penelope Cruz – Alfonso Cuarón – Jonas Cuarón – Maria Grazia Cucinotta – James D'Arcy – Cosimo Damiano – Matt Damon – Kristin Davis – Aurelio De Laurentiis – Manoel de Oliveira – Brian De Palma – Luisa De Santis – James Deen – Willem Dafoe – Pippo Delbono – Laura Delli Colli – Ilya Demichev – Jonathan Demme – Özcan Deniz – Danny DeVito – Teresa di Sio – Leonardo DiCaprio – Matt Dillon – Roy E. Disney – Andrew Dominik – Sheila Douglass – Robert Downey Jr. – Kirsten Dunst – Aaron Eckhart – Zac Efron – Jennifer Ehlee – Jesse Eisenberg – Esther Elisha – Bret Easton Ellis – James Ellroy – Akira Emoto – Nicoletta Ercole – Emilio Estevez – Eun-woo Lee – Roberto Faenza – Fabrizio Falco – Dakota Fanning – Giorgia Farina – Colin Farrell – Michael Fassbender – Léa Fehner – Dante Ferretti – Ralph Fiennes – Angela Finocchiaro – Donatella Finocchiaro – Giuseppe Fiorello – Colin Firth – Laurence Fishburne – Miloš Forman – Jodie Foster – William Francome – David Frankel – Stephen Frears – Morgan Freeman – William Friedkin – Joanne Frogatt – Demian Gabriel – Zack Galifianakis – Eric Gandini – James Gandolfini – Alessandro Gassman – Richard Gere – Claudia Gerini – Elio Germano – Greta Gerwig – Gianfranco Giagni – Paul Giamatti – Alex Gibney – Terry Gilliam – Davide Giordano – Francois Girard – Livia Giuggioli – Leonardo Godano – Simone Godano – Akiva Goldsman – Kristopher Goldsmith – Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Enzo Gragnanello – Hugh Grant – Lee Grant – Bruce Greenwood – Frank Grillo – Luca Guadagnino – Sabina Guzzanti – Jake Gyllenhaal – Baris Hacihan – Paul Haggis – Rebecca Hall – Bent Hamer – Eireann Harper – Mary Harron – Josephine Hart – Marie Hartness – Anne Hathaway – Ethan Hawke – John Hawkes – Salma Hayek – Todd Haynes – Lena Heady – Monte Hellman – Roberto Herliizka – Grant Heslov – Tsui Hiak – Scott Hicks – Walter Hill – Jonah Hill – Emile Hirsch – Katie Holmes – Tom Hooper – Anthony Hopkins – Djimon Hounsou – Terrence Howard – Kate Hudson – Neal Huff – Eugene Hutz – Stefano Incerti – John Irvin – Oscar Isaac – James Ivory – Samuel L Jackson – Irene Jacob – Jenni Jenkins – Alison & Will Jimeno – Jae-hyeon Jo – Min-soo Jo – Scarlett Johanssen – Rian Johnson – Mike Johnson – Toby Jones – Neil Jordan – Jung-Jin Lee – Reda Kaleb – Shekhar Kapur – Jeffrey Katzenberg – Val Kilmer – Ki-Duk Kim – Michael Patrick King – Mia Kirschner – Takeshi Kitano – Naomi Klein – Keira Knightley – Stanley Kwan – Ariane Labed – Nicole Laliberte – Martin Landau – Yorgos Lanthimos – Alexandra Maria Lara – Michele Lastella – Margherita Laterza – Jude Law – Francis Lawrence – David Leaf – Patrice Leconte – Heath Ledger – Spike Lee – Ang Lee – Jennifer Jason Leigh – Tracy Letts – Richard Lewis – Laura Linney – Luigi Lo Cascio – Francesca Lo Schiavo – Ken Loach – Valentina Lodovini – Lindsay Lohan – Guido Lombardi – Robert Lontos – Peter Lord – Josh Lucas – Carlo Luglio – Sidney Lumet – Katia Lund – David Lynch – John Madden – Mia Maestro – Monica Maggioni – Salvatore Maira – Ami Canaan Mann – Vinicio Marchioni – Vincenzo Marra – Davide Marengo – Eddie Marsan – Neil Marshall – Garry Marshall – Cito Maselli – Valerio Mastandrea – James McAvoy – Matthew McConaughey – Ross McElwee – Tom McGrath – Douglas McGrath – Donna & John McLoughlin – Steve McQueen – Fernando Mereilles – Salvatore Mereu – Antonio Merone – Marco Messeri – Giovanna Mezzogiorno – Maurizio Micheli – Giulia Michelini – Valerio Mieli – John Milius – Christopher Mintz-Plasse – Helen Mirren – Andrea Molaioli – Romina Mondello – Daniel Monzón – Michael Moore – Catalina Moreno – Paul Morrissey – Viggo Mortensen – Caterina Murino – Cynthia Nixon – Claudio Noce – Christopher Nolan – Tom Noonan – Chris Noth – Silvio Orlando – Clive Owen – Gianni Pacinotti – Elliot Page – Gwyneth Paltrow – Claudia Pandolfi – Aggeliki Papoulia – Nick Park – Sarah Jessica Parker – Uberto Pasolini – Francesco Patierno – Missy Peregrym – Flavia Pernasi – Wolfgang Petersen – Todd Phillips – Francois Pienaar – Rosamund Pike – Jada Pinkett Smith – Brad Pitt – Paco Plaza – Bill Plympton – Sidney Pollack – Louise Portal – Natalie Portman – Robert Pulcini – Eileen Pullan – Isabella Ragonese – Charlotte Rampling – Noomi Rapace – Susan Ray – Vanessa Redgrave – Eddie Redmayne – Keanu Reeves – Kimball Rendell – Jeremy Renner – Michele Rho – Elena Sofia Ricci – Natasha Richardson – Lorenzo Richelmy – Michele Riondino – Andrea Riseborough – Stefania Rocca – Chris Rock – Freddy Rodriguez – Emily Rossum – Tim Roth – Mickey Rourke – Henry Alex Rubin – Geoffrey Rush – Kurt Russell – Winona Ryder – Sang-il Lee – Maya Sansa – Riccardo Scamarcio – Giancarlo Scarchilli – Monica Scattini – Paul Schrader – Liev Schreiber – Jason Schwartzman – Arnold Schwarzenegger – Francesco Scianna – Pasquale Scimeca – Tarik Selah – Toni Servillo – Steven Shainberg – Joel Silver – John Singleton – Christian Slater – Will Smith – Greg Smith – Zack Snyder – Steven Soderbergh – Aleksandr Sokurov – Valeria Solarino – Todd Solondz – Shannon Sossamon – Scott Speedman – Ben Stiller – Whit Stillman – Oliver Stone – David Strathairn – Meryl Streep – Tilda Swinton – Gianluca Maria Tavarelli – Julie Taymor – Charlize Theron – Justin Theroux – David Thewlis – Mélanie Thierry – Analeigh Tipton – Giorgio Tirabassi – Bruno Todeschini – Ricky Tognazzi – Roberta Torre – Luis Tosar – John Travolta – Athina Rachel Tsangari – Stanley Tucci – John Turturro – Yesim Ustaoglu – Sofia Vergara – Paul Verhoeven – Stefano Verunese – Alicia Vikander – Francesco Villa – Giselda Volodi – Ariel Vromen – Mark Wahlberg – Kierston Wareing – Ken Watanabee – Eleonor Watling – Mark Webber – Tang Wei – Rachel Weisz – Lina Wertmüller – Gene Wilder – Tom Wilkinson – Frederick Wiseman – John Woo – Woo-sung Jung – Elijah Wood – Joe Wright – Yûya Yagira – Augustin Diaz Yanes – Donnie Yen – Michelle Yeoh – Charlie Yeung – Karen Young – Seren Yüce – Johannes Zeiler – Catherine Zeta-Jones – Luca Zingaretti – Edward Zwick