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Canadian directors delve into their work which is too often overlooked by festivals.
Writer-director Heather Young discusses Murmur, her feature film debut, making the transition from shorts to features, working with animals and non-actors, and …
[Read more...] about TIFF Establishing Shots: Heather Young on her first feature, Murmur
Director Sébastian Pilote and actress Karelle Tremblay discuss their award-winning coming-of-age story, The Fireflies Are Gone (La Disparition des Lucioles). …
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Director Patricia Rozema and actors Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, all of whom co-wrote the film together, discuss adapting Mouthpiece from stage to screen, …
[Read more...] about An in-depth conversation with the women behind Mouthpiece
Director Miranda de Pencier and Inuk producer Alethea Araquq-Baril discuss the making of The Grizzlies, telling Indigenous stories, and why de Pencier wanted to …
Canadian rising stars Jasmin Mozaffari and star Michaela Kurimsky discuss Mozaffari's evocative, energetic debut, Firecrackers. This is an excerpt from the …
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Canadian writer-director Keith Behrman on Giant Little Ones, a teen film about the ambiguity of sexual identity and the way internalized homophobia is poison to …
[Read more...] about ‘I wanted the film to be like a pop song’: Keith Behrman on Giant Little Ones
