Rewatching Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) sparked this podcast where Alex Heeney asks: What happens when women’s stories aren’t built around who they end up with?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.