A place to think deeply about movies
Canadian directors delve into their work which is too often overlooked by festivals.
The Splinters ensemble — Sofia Banzhaf, Callum Dunphy, and Shelley Thompson — discuss finding their characters, collaborating with each other and director Thom …
[Read more...] about Interview: Splinters ensemble discuss their moving LGBTQ family drama
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. …
Co-directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier discuss their third collaboration, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. …
[Read more...] about Interview: Anthropocene is an awe-inspiring look at environmental destruction
Writer-director Darlene Naponse on her unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals and sound, and the respect and care …
[Read more...] about Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman
Addelman discusses fictionalising her first marriage into her feature debut, which took years of rewrites, great casting, and generous collaboration. …
[Read more...] about Establishing Shots: Rebecca Addelman on her marriage drama, Paper Year
Photographer Matthieu Rytz turned to documentary filmmaking to tell the story of an island that will soon be eradicated by rising sea levels. …
[Read more...] about HotDocs interview: A country is drowning in Anote’s Ark
