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Alex Heeney

About Alex Heeney

Alex is the Editor-in-Chief of The Seventh Row, based in San Francisco and from Toronto, Canada.

Alex Heeney / June 24, 2025

Frameline Capsule Review: Carmen Emmi’s Plainclothes

In this capsule review from the San Francisco Frameline Film Festival, Alex Heeney reviews Carmen Emmi’s feature debut Plainclothes.

Alex Heeney / June 16, 2025

Interview: Warwick Thornton on The New Boy

In this interview, Indigenous writer-director-cinematographer Warwick Thornton discusses The New Boy, his Days of Heaven about an Indigenous boy in 1940s Australia.

Alex Heeney / June 5, 2025

HotDocs Review: Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest

Alex Heeney reviews Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest, a Gothic documentary about a haunted house that reveals lesser-known parts of Winnipeg’s intersectional history.

Alex Heeney / June 4, 2025

InsideOut Reviews: Sandbag Dam, The Nature of Invisible Things

Alex Heeney reviews Rafaela Camelo’s The Nature of Invisible Things and Čejen Černić Čanak’s Sandbag Dam at Toronto’s InsideOut LGBTQ+ Film Festival: two sensitive films about young people that young people should see.

Alex Heeney / May 20, 2025

Interview: Lucio Castro on Drunken Noodles

In this interview, Lucio Castro discusses the total freedom of low-budget filmmaking for his queer Cannes ACID film Drunken Noodles.

Alex Heeney / May 19, 2025

Film Review: Pauline Loquès’s Nino at Cannes

Alex Heeney reviews Pauline Loquès’s feature debut, Nino, starring Théodore Pellerin, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a twentysomething man’s nervewrecking weekend after he’s diagnosed with c
ancer and before he starts treatment.

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