Short interview: Sophie Roze

How long did it take to make your short? Was it difficult to get financing?
It took 2 years to do it. One year to find the money, which was long but not so diffucult, and one year to do the film properly (includind making the puppets, the sets, the shot, etc...)

Which thoughts come to mind concerning a “European cinema community”?
Maybe it would be interesting to find a kind of solidarity in order to make films more easilly.

If you owned a theatre for one night, which films would you screen?
Opening nights (Cassavetes), Sherlock Junior (Buster Keaton), Blow up (Antonioni), Le herisson dans le brouillard (Youri Norstein), La traversee de l atlantique a la rame (Jean Francois Laguionie).

What is your next project?
It is a dvd-book for children. The film is a animated one, in cutted papers filmed under camera, and I do the illustrations for the book.

Courtesy of European Film Academy, 2011.