Cape Breton writer-director Ashley McKenzie discusses her feature debut, Werewolf, “lawnmower crackheads”, working with non-actors, and being part of the TIFF family.
Film Festivals
Best of TIFF16: Fien Troch’s Home
In Home, teachers and authority figures don’t skip a beat before upbraiding the teenagers in their charge, but writer-director Fien Troch asks us to empathize first and judge second.
Benedict Andrews talks Una and directing for theatre vs film: part 2
This is the second part of our two-part interview with Benedict Andrews on his feature debut Una and the differences between directing for film and theatre. Read part one here.
Benedict Andrews talks Una and directing for the stage vs. screen part 1
Australian theatre director Benedict Andrews, who directed Blackbird in Berlin back in 2005, discusses the challenges of adapting the play for the screen in Una, as well as the differences between directing for stage and screen. Go to part 2 of the interview.
Writer-director Alison Maclean raises the curtain on The Rehearsal
Alison Maclean discusses the making of her film The Rehearsal, from adapting Eleanor Catton’s novel, to finding her cast, to rehearsing the film.
TIFF16 Interview: Maria Jose Cuevas and Olga Breeskin talk Beauties of the Night
Maria Jose Cuevas’ Beauties of the Night catches up with the most famous Mexican showgirls of the 1960s–1980s today in this collaborative documentary. At TIFF, Laura Anne Harris talked to Cuevas and her most famous subject, Olga Breeskin, about making the film and Breeskin’s fascinating life story.