Redford has crafted a densely packed film intended to educate the public about Adverse Childhood Effects, or the very real existence of Toxic Stress.
Film Festivals
NUTS! and foreveryone.net: The visionary and the charlatan
The Sundance documentaries foreveryone.net and NUTS! each chronicle the scientific achievements and self-mythologizing of two very different men.
Review: Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Chloë Zhao’s directorial debut “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” is a quiet, sensitive indigenous coming-of-age story set as high school graduation nears on the Pine Ridge Reserve.
Director Rick Alverson talks Entertainment and upending audience expectations
Writer-director Rick Alverson discusses his confronting new film ‘Entertainment,’ in which he intended to “upend expectation of what a movie should be and what behaviour should be.”
A Month of Sundays director Matthew Saville talks TV vs. film
Writer-director Matthew Saville discusses his film A Month of Sundays and TV show Please Like Me at TIFF15.
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words at MVFF 38
“Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words” is a loving tribute to the late, great Swedish actress told almost entirely from her perspective. Bergman brought her 16mm camera with her everywhere, and the years of footage she accumulated form the majority of the film’s images. Similarly, director Stig Björkman uses Bergman’s recorded interviews and letters to friends, read by Alicia Vikander, to narrate the film. Starting with Bergman’s childhood, most of which was spent with her father as her mother died when Bergman was still young, and ending with her final film project, Björkman gives a straightforward account of Bergman’s life, in chronological order.