Philippe Lesage discusses Genèse, a coming-of-age story about searching for love in a repressive, violent adult world, and bringing the spirit of a novel into filmmaking. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about ‘Creating characters that have inner lives’: Philippe Lesage on GenèseThe 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook
The Splinters ensemble discuss their moving LGBTQ film
The Splinters ensemble — Sofia Banzhaf, Callum Dunphy, and Shelley Thompson — discuss making the film, finding their characters, collaborating with each other and director Thom Fitzgerald, and what makes the story a uniquely Maritime one.
This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about The Splinters ensemble discuss their moving LGBTQ filmInterview: Edge of the Knife tells a pre-colonialism story of the Haida legend of ‘The Wildman’
Co-director and Haida artist Gwaai Edenshaw discusses his landmark film Edge of the Knife (Sgaawaay K’uuna), the first feature film made in the Haida language. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about Interview: Edge of the Knife tells a pre-colonialism story of the Haida legend of ‘The Wildman’Interview: Anthropocene is an awe-inspiring look at environmental destruction
Co-directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier discuss their third film collaboration, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about Interview: Anthropocene is an awe-inspiring look at environmental destructionTIFF should do more for Canadian cinema
The Canadian films at TIFF this year were especially great, but the festival should have done more to bring them to the attention of critics and audiences. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about TIFF should do more for Canadian cinemaTIFF18’s brightest star was Canadian cinema
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.
[Read more…] about TIFF18’s brightest star was Canadian cinema