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I spoke with Andrew T. Betzer about his new film, Young Bodies Heal Quickly, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Neal Dhand: Probably for obvious reasons, this film reminds me a lot of your short, John Wayne Hated Horses. Was that the impetus for making it? Did you expand from the original script or write an entirely new one?

Andrew T. Betzer: I feel that all of my shorts are part of a body of work that is reflective of my preoccupations on a whole…both conscious and subconscious. The script for Young Bodies was totally original, but perhaps taking place in the same world as the dad and son from John Wayne. Who knows, maybe they were neighbors? Perhaps attended some of the same re-enactment events?

Nd: Like in John Wayne, Young Bodies Heal Quickly deals with the relationship between an older man and a younger child.

• The current issue of Filmmaker Magazine has hit kiosks and the only reason why I'd be pointing this out is because it includes its annual "25 New Faces" feature (available here) which is basically: a sampling of the future voices, filmmakers, editors, actors and cinematographers who in the opinion of the magazine's editors represent the future of independent filmmaking and who, I admittedly know only two of the twenty-five. Sebastián Silva helmed The Maid, got rave reviews at Sundance and got picked up by Elephant Eye (read here), and Derek Cianfrance, who finally commenced filming Blue Valentine with thesps Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams on board - 2 bucks says that this preems in Park City. Here are the names of those who made the cut: docu-filmmaker Ian Olds (Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi), filmmaking duo Eleanor Burke & Ron Eyal (Stranger Things), editor Nat Sanders (The Freebie), filmmaker Jessica Oreck

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Again. I'm in a hurry but woohoo! Tetro is playing! Bring on the trailer! (Yes Vincent Gallo is awesome)

List after the break.

Directors' Fortnight Lineup

"La Pivellina," Austria, Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

"The Alasness of Things," Belgium-Netherlands, Felix van Groeningen

"Eastern Plays," Bulgaria-Sweden, Kamen Kalev

"Carcasses," Canada, Denis Cote

"J'ai tue ma mere," Canada, Xavier Dolan

"Polytechnique," Canada, Denis Villeneuve

"Navidad," Chile, Sebastian Lelio

"Oxhide II," China, Liu Jia Yin

"La famille Wolberg," France-Belgium, Axelle Ropert

"Land of Madness," France, Luc Moullet

"Le roi de l'evasion," France, Alain Guiraudie

"Les beaux gosses," France, Riad Sattouf

"Yuki & Nina," France-Japan, Nobuhiro Suwa, Hippolyte Girardot

"Ajami," Israel-Germany, Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani (closer) "Daniel & Ana," Mexico-Spain, Michel Franco

"Karaoke," Malaysia, Chan Fui (Chris) Chong

"Ne change rien," Portugal-France, Pedro Costa

"Here," Singapore-Canada, Tzu-Nyen Ho

"Like You Know It All," South Korea, Hong Sang-soo

"Amreeka," U.S., Cherien Dabis

"Go Get Some Rosemary," U.