Many of the best recent Canadian films tell stories about young adults. This episode features YA fiction expert Joe Lipsett as we discuss what counts as YA, …
Canadian Cinema
Promoting and spotlighting Canadian Cinema is one of the goals of The Seventh Row. Here you'll find reviews of Canadian films and interviews with Canadian directors.
White Lie directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis plunge the viewer into moral turmoil
In this interview, directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis discuss their film White Lie, collaborating, using in-depth research to make fiction, and why they …
Mira Burt-Wintonick on Wintopia: “You need to make the film only you can make”
Wintopia director Mira Burt-Wintonick on how she worked out a personal approach to making a documentary eulogy to her father, filmmaker Peter Wintonick.The film …
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HotDocs 2020 is a reminder of the world beyond lockdown
As HotDocs 2020 goes online, B. P. Flanagan takes a whirlwind tour around the world with Mayor, Stateless, All That I Am, Love & Stuff, and …
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Werewolf (2016) is a film about getting clean as a couple
Ashley McKenzie's 2016 film Werewolf was one of the most exciting directorial debuts of the 2010s. As McKenzie finishes her second feature during lockdown, …
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Sanja Zivkovic on Easy Land, immigration, and mental illness
Sanja Zivkovic on the tricky business of depicting mental illness on screen, how she directed her two talented lead actresses, and crafting the aesthetics of …
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