Talents From ‘Holy Spider’, ‘Ballywalter’ & ‘Boiling Point’ Discuss The Screenwriting Process & Balancing The Writer-Director Relationship: “Sometimes It’s About Digging Sideways” — Storyhouse

I dont necessarily think that working on something for ten years makes it better.

But thats the surface of the story.

Then it became like that banal saying that everything is about sex or something like that.

HOLY SPIDER, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, 2022. © Wild Bunch /Courtesy Everett Collection

This is really the story in a way but also the story of Iranian society and the government.

I think Im a lot kinder to myself now.

My cinematographer nearly lost his eye, said Akl, of the terrifying experience.