Close Encounters 2003 - 2015

Interviews for Events, Festivals and Junkets

From 2005 to 2015 I represented NBC Studio Universal at press junkets in Rome and London, and the Venice Film Festival (in 2009 I covered Venice for Fox Channels Italy); conducting hundreds of interviews and managing content for broadcast.
The movie media circus is a curious environment to say the least, but interviewing - often for only a few minutes, sometimes for over an hour - many of the most interesting and talented actors, writers and directors, 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... Whether it's talking to the late Gene Wilder at his home in Connecticut, or the astronaut Buzz Aldrin in a hotel on Via Veneto, it's impossible not to engage with brilliant minds without learning something.