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Canadian directors delve into their work which is too often overlooked by festivals.
Co-directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt on how their documentary No Ordinary Man corrects the narrative around Billy Tipton, a transgender jazz musician …
[Read more...] about TIFF Interview: Reclaiming transmasculine history in No Ordinary Man
Spinster director Andrea Dorfman's heartwarming comedy maintains that heroine Gaby (Chelsea Peretti) doesn’t need romantic love to be happy. Discover more great …
[Read more...] about Andrea Dorfman on Spinster, an ‘anti rom-com’ for the ages
Wintopia director Mira Burt-Wintonick on how she worked out a personal approach to making a documentary eulogy to her father, filmmaker Peter Wintonick.The film …
[Read more...] about Mira Burt-Wintonick on Wintopia: “You need to make the film only you can make”
Sanja Zivkovic on the tricky business of depicting mental illness on screen, how she directed her two talented lead actresses, and crafting the aesthetics of …
[Read more...] about Sanja Zivkovic on Easy Land, immigration, and mental illness
In our interview with Jeff Barnaby, he discusses his zombie film about colonialism, Blood Quantum, telling Indigenous stories through genre, and working as his …
[Read more...] about Jeff Barnaby on Blood Quantum and colonialist zombies
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. …
