The Making of Tomato Red: An Interview with Director Juanita Wilson

Juanita Wilson is a Dublin-based Film Director and Writer. In 2008, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her short film, The Door, which went on to win the IFTA Award for Best Short Film. She was awarded the prestigious Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Bursary at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2009. Juanita’s first feature, As If I Am Not There, adapted from the work by Slavenka Drakulic, won the IFTA Awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Film Script in 2011. She was selected by Variety as one of the Ten Directors to Watch in 2011. She developed and produced Inside I’m Dancing (2004) and H3 (2001). Juanita’s latest film is Tomato Red, based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell.