At TIFF18, almost all of the best films I saw were Canadian — and that’s not grading on a curve. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
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Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman
Writer-director Darlene Naponse on Falls Around Her, making a film about an unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals and sound, and the respect and care required to film on reservation land. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
Cam is an intelligent and positive look at sex work
In Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei’s horror film Cam — which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal — the villain isn’t sex work, but a camgirl’s lack of protection and agency.
Establishing Shots: Rebecca Addelman on her marriage drama, Paper Year
Rebecca Addelman discusses Paper Year, fictionalising her first marriage into her feature debut, which took years of rewrites, great casting, and generous collaboration.
HotDocs interview: A country is drowning in Anote’s Ark
Photographer Matthieu Rytz turned to documentary filmmaking to tell the story of an island that will soon be eradicated by rising sea levels with Anote’s Ark.
Cinematographer Jakob Ihre on Thelma: ‘Even in fantastical moments, the light is still naturalistic’
Cinematographer Jakob Ihre discusses adapting to shooting on itital, lighting different characters for a thematic purpose, and how production design affects his creative choices.