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Promising emerging filmmakers discuss their first feature film.
Hungarian director Zsófia Szilágyi discusses her impressive feature debut One Day, avoiding cliches while telling a typical story, fighting over the film’s sound design, and working with child actors.
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Rebecca Addelman discusses Paper Year, fictionalising her first marriage into her feature debut, which took years of rewrites, great casting, and generous collaboration. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about Establishing Shots: Rebecca Addelman on her marriage drama, Paper YearDaniel Kokotajlo discusses the autobiographical roots and the making of his feature debut, Apostasy, set in a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
[Read more…] about Establishing Shots: Daniel Kokotajlo on his feature debut, ApostasyWriter-Director Camille Vidal-Naquet discusses telling the story of a male sex worker with humour, romance, and a frank approach to nudity.
[Read more…] about ‘Nudity is their work outfit’: Camille Vidal-Naquet on SauvageLéonor Serraille discusses her feature debut Jeune Femme, a portrait of a complicated, impulsive young woman and her process of self-reinvention.
[Read more…] about Léonor Serraille on Jeune Femme, her anti-Frances HaAtsuko Hirayanagi discusses her debut feature Oh Lucy!, a rare film that centres a complex middle-aged woman as the lead.
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