• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Seventh Row

A place to think deeply about movies

  • Archives
    • Browse Articles
    • Review Index
    • Interview Index
  • Podcast
    • Seventh Row Podcast
    • Abortion on Film
    • Creative Nonfiction Podcast
    • Women at Cannes
    • Sundance 2023
    • The Joachim Trier Audio Commentaries
    • 21st Folio
    • Seventh Row on other podcasts
  • Ebooks
    • Mike Leigh
    • Call Me by Your Name
    • Céline Sciamma
    • Kelly Reichardt
    • Joanna Hogg
    • Andrew Haigh
    • Lynne Ramsay
    • Joachim Trier
    • Subjectives realities (Nonfiction film)
    • Documentary Masters
    • Fiction Directors
  • Shop
  • Join Reel Ruminators

Canadian Cinema

Canadian directors delve into their work which is too often overlooked by festivals.

Directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt are pictured in front a black and white still of jazz musician Billy Tipton. The image features text that states this is an interview at TIFF.

Orla Smith / September 12, 2020

TIFF Interview: Reclaiming transmasculine history in No Ordinary Man

Transgender jazz musician Billy Tipton’s life was distorted by the media after his death. No Ordinary Man aims to correct that narrative.

An image of Andrea Dorfman, superimposed over a still from her film, Spinster. The image has the text, "Interview," over it.

Orla Smith / August 8, 2020

Andrea Dorfman on Spinster, an ‘anti rom-com’ for the ages

Spinster director Andrea Dorfman’s heartwarming comedy maintains that heroine Gaby (Chelsea Peretti) doesn’t need romantic love to be happy.

Mira Burt-Wintonick, Wintopia, HotDocs 2020

B. P. Flanagan / June 12, 2020

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.

Sanja Zivkovic, Nina Kiri, Mirjana Jokovic, Easy Land

Orla Smith / May 16, 2020

Sanja Zivkovic on Easy Land, immigration, and mental illness

Sanja Zivkovic on depicting mental illness on screen, how she directed her two talented lead actresses, and crafting the aesthetics of Easy Land.

Alex Heeney / April 28, 2020

Jeff Barnaby on Blood Quantum and colonialist zombies

In our interview with Jeff Barnaby, he discusses his zombie film about colonialism, Blood Quantum, telling Indigenous stories through genre, and working as his own editor and composer

Alex Heeney / December 13, 2019

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn on The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open

Co-directors and co-writers Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (who also stars) and Kathleen Hepburn discuss telling Indigenous stories and telling a story in real time.

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 12
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

Support Seventh Row

  • Film Adventurer Membership
  • Cinephile Membership
  • Ebooks
  • Donate
  • Merchandise
  • Institutional Subscriptions
  • Workshops & Masterclasses
  • Shop

Connect with Us

  • Podcast
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Browse

  • Interview Index by Job Title
  • Interview Index by Last Name
  • Seventh Row Podcast
  • Directors We Love
  • Films We Love

Join our newsletter

  • Join our free newsletter
  • Get the premium newsletter (become a member)

Featured Ebooks on Directors

  • Joachim Trier
  • Joanna Hogg
  • Céline Sciamma
  • Kelly Reichardt
  • Lynne Ramsay
  • Mike Leigh
  • Andrew Haigh

© 2025 · Seventh Row

  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Contribute
  • Contact
  • My Account