Every film fan surely saw“ Aliens“ or“ Terminator“ and spotted handsome bloke helping and protecting Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton .That was Michael Biehn (born 31.7.1956) who celebrates 60th birthday this year. We thought it would be good idea to make interview with him and ask him and hid wife, actress and business partner Jennifer Blanc about their careers and their company „ Blanc- Biehn Production“.We didn´t give it much home BUT within few hours reply“ Yes, we are interested“ came back. We were connected with their assistant Kurk Kasparian who was very helpfull middle man and thanks to him and of course kindness of Mrs. And Mrs Biehn you can read following lines.

Jennifer Blanc (born 21.4.1974) is not much known to Czech audience so this is good chance to put her in shop window.At the age of 13 she acted on Broadway and after moving to LA she became a star of a serie „ Hull High“.She acted in many TV series and films and joined forces with her partner Michael Biehn and produced and acted in film like „ The Divide“ and „The Victim“.She acted alongside the like of Danny de Vito.She also made her directing debut with film „ The Night visitor“.She is certainly actress to watch.

When we were at Zlín Film Festival, there was screening of a film called “ My name is Emily” directed by Simon Fitzmaurice. Probably it wouldn´t be anything special in flood of other films but we read that this director suffers from MND and directed his film only by using his eyes for communication. Immediately it raised our interest so we asked organizers for contact. They were sympathetic and duly obliged. Then it went pretty smoothly. Mr.Jerry Li from Visit Films put us in touch with Mr.Kathryn Kennedy who helped us with interview. Some answers were done by her, some by Simon Fitzmaurice himself. We didn´t expect it would go so smoothly and fast and thank all concerned for their effort and help.

Ivan Passer (1933) is Czech script writer and director, member of famous Czech new wave in 60´s.He was close collaborator to Miloš Forman with who he is on friendly terms up until today. Mr.Passer was a star guest of Letní filmová škola festival in Uherské Hradiště. To meet face to face with legend like him is not every day´s treat so no doubt that every screening of his films with his presence and his master classes were packed to rafters. After being in film business for half a century, no doubt his stories were not dull.

Andrew Holmes is Canadian filmmaker who we were recommended by another director from country of Maple Leaf Jesse James Miller.It took some time since Mr. Holmes was shooting film but worth waiting for since his story is just incredible.

When we came to Zlín film festival we knew nothing about Paul Wells. Artistic director of the festival Markéta Pášmová told us he is interesting man and worth an interview. So we applied for that, hastily produced questions and waited. Within about 6 minutes we threw away our questions since what Mr.Wells told us was much more interesting than we wanted to ask him.