Coen og Cooke leading the Master Class for the TIFF-audience!

Editor and filmmaker Tricia Cooke told the audience how she has wanted to visit Tromsø for å long time, and at last it fit in the schedule!

It was programmer and film critic Kaleem Aftab who peaked Cooke's Tromsø-interest when he shared photos from the city and the festival, explained Festival Director Lisa Hoen. And now, finally Cooke has arrived, and brought her husband and filmmaker Ethan Coen with her.

The pair is not only married, but has also worked together on a number of films. During this year's festival you can find 8 of the Coen-Brothers films in the retrospective Coen-brothers: Crime and Human Comedy. In the Master Class, Coen and Cooke talked about a number of their films, with a look into the collaboration, editing-process and how several of the films were made. Key words for the Master Class were humor, genre, and the transitions from script to shoot to the editing process.

For Coen filmmaking has been a type of play ever since he was a child, and in many ways he has kept this view on filmmaking up to today.

-In a way it's kind of an extension what me and Joel [Coen] did when we were kids, you know? You're just making a movie, Coen explains.

The Oscar-winning Director never had any ambitions on becoming just that, and he explains that the reason he and Joel [Coen] make new films is not be be innovative, but to create something new for themselves.

The audience also got a chance to ask the filmmakers a few questions, and there will be another opportunity for the audience to meet our guests on Saturday January 20th, when there will be an introduction and Q&A to the screening of Fargo at 14:30.