A Psychological Thriller · 2026
THE INTERVIEW
Tell us who you think you are.
Nominated · Best Thriller Screenplay 2026
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Tell us who you think you are.
// Logline
A routine job interview spirals into a confrontation with the self — where every answer is a verdict on the life she has lived.
06 / Sound & Short-Form
// Audio · 02:49
Hear from director Tess Parker as she walks through the ideas, the silences, and the choices that shaped The Interview. Recorded on the morning of the first day of shooting.
// Short-Form · Video
A short promotional cut built from the most charged moments of the film and its making — the silences, the bookshelves, the recording light staying on. A glimpse before the door closes.
04 / Design
05 / Photography
01 / The Film
02 / The Story
Maya arrives for what she expects to be a routine job interview. She is shown into a quiet, ornate library and seated opposite an unnamed interviewer. At first, the questions seem standard — strengths, weaknesses, ambitions.
Q01 What is your biggest regret?
Q02 Who would you miss the most?
What begins as a professional evaluation slowly transforms into a confrontation with her own life. The interview room — its towering bookshelves, its religious iconography, its unblinking silence — becomes a space of reckoning rather than opportunity.
As Maya's composure fractures, the boundary between memory, reality and consequence blurs. A phone notification from her mother. A silver car speeding through rain. A clock that reads zero.
The Interview is a psychological thriller about regret, disconnection, and the questions we ask ourselves in the moments before truth arrives.
03 / A Note From The Director
by Tess Parker
The Interview began with a question I could not stop asking myself. What if the rooms we walk into every day were not measuring our skills, but our lives? We sit across from strangers and recite carefully rehearsed versions of who we are. But what if those strangers asked the questions we never let ourselves answer?
I wanted to build a space where Maya — and the audience — has nowhere to look away. The library setting, the religious iconography, the unbroken eye-line: these are deliberate. This is a confessional disguised as a job interview.
My hope is that you leave the film slightly uneasy, and that the unease is not about Maya at all.
Tess Parker, Director
Theatrical Screening
Edgeworth David Building
Old Geology Lecture Theatre · The University of Sydney
07 / Personnel
01 · Direction
Director
02 · Performance
as Maya
03 · Cinematography
Director of Photography
04 · Edit
Sound Design
05 · Sound
Editor
08 / Acclaim
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A suffocating debut. Parker turns the most ordinary room into a confessional, and refuses to let her audience look away.Sydney Film Review
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Lila Tapper is mesmerising. The Interview asks the questions we spend our lives avoiding, and makes us watch ourselves try to answer.Indie Shorts Quarterly
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Cold, beautiful, and quietly devastating. The kind of student film that announces a director's voice on the first frame.Screen Anthology