Richard Grant had a full career's worth of acting experience with a variety of filmmakers to fall back on for his directorial debut, Wah-Wah. In fact, he cites Withnail and I director Bruce Robinson and maverick auteur Robert Altman as his chief influences. But he also had the searing memories of his own adolescence. Set in the final stages of British rule in Swaziland, South Africa in the late 1960s, Wah-Wah is a careening coming-of-age tale centered around About a Boy's Nicholas Hoult and co-starring Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson and Miranda Richardson. And there's no delicate equivocation in Grant's responses about the movie: it's his story. For the full feature, from FilmStew, click here.