Masterclass with filmmakers Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke on Directing, Editing and more

Tromsø International Film Festival 2024: On Friday January 19th 2024, filmmakers Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke participated in a Master Class at the Tromsø International Film Festival, in conversation with critic Kaleem Aftab. This video presents the whole masterclass, including the questions from the audience. The audiovisual production is done by the festival, in partnership with Norwegian film magazine Montages.no.

Coen and Cooke's new feature film, DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS, are currently being shown in cinemas and on VOD around the world.

From TIFF.no:
"Editor and filmmaker Tricia Cooke told the audience how she has wanted to visit Tromsø for å long time, and at last it fit in the schedule! It was programmer and film critic Kaleem Aftab who peaked Cooke's Tromsø-interest when he shared photos from the city and the festival, explained Festival Director Lisa Hoen. And now, finally Cooke has arrived, and brought her husband and filmmaker Ethan Coen with her.

The pair is not only married, but has also worked together on a number of films. During this year's festival you can find 8 of the Coen-Brothers films in the retrospective Coen-brothers: Crime and Human Comedy. In the Master Class, Coen and Cooke talked about a number of their films, with a look into the collaboration, editing-process and how several of the films were made. Key words for the Master Class were humor, genre, and the transitions from script to shoot to the editing process.

For Coen filmmaking has been a type of play ever since he was a child, and in many ways he has kept this view on filmmaking up to today. 'In a way it's kind of an extension what me and Joel [Coen] did when we were kids, you know? You're just making a movie,' Coen explains.

The Oscar-winning Director never had any ambitions on becoming just that, and he explains that the reason he and Joel [Coen] make new films is not be be innovative, but to create something new for themselves."