Irish-born Ivan Kavanagh has been directing films and shorts for the last ten years, beginning with his festival-success "Bandage-Man" in 2003. A lover of horror, he told Indiwire a bit about himself and a lot about what he calls "the unfairly dismissed and neglected genre." Tell us about yourself: I’m from Dublin. I grew up in a household where films were always on. My father is a movie-buff and particularly loved classic Hollywood films and genre films, while my uncle loved foreign cinema, so I was exposed to mixture of films like Cries and Whispers (Bergman) and The Haunting (Wise), at quite an early age, and so I grew up loving both genre films and art house films equally and I think my work reflects this. I started making films in my late teens, using back-to-back Vcr’s to edit and I knew from the moment I saw the very first cut I made,...
- 4/15/2014
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
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