Gemma Creagh sat down with director Juanita Wilson to talk about her latest film Tomato Red. Juanita explains how she went about adapting Daniel Woodrell's book for film, working on the look and feel of the film and casting the right actors.
Juanita Wilson
Irish director Juanita Wilson’s first film The Door was nominated for an Oscar 2010 and went on to win numerous awards and festivals throughout the world. She followed this with an equally hard hitting true story of the Bosnian War, As If I Am Not There, based on Croatian journalist Slavenka Drakulic’s book of the same name. The film went on to win many awards including the prestigious Jury Prize Silver Pyramid at the Cairo International Film Festival in December 2010 and the The Human Rights Film Award of The Council of Europe at the Istanbul Film Festival 2011, and Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Film at the 2011 Irish Film and Television Academy Awards in February 2011. Juanita was named among Variety’s top ten directors to watch for in 2011, the only woman to feature on the list.
