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Female-identifying directors reflect on their experiences making films and leading creative teams.
Maria Jose Cuevas’ Beauties of the Night catches up with the most famous Mexican showgirls of the 1960s–1980s today in this collaborative documentary. At TIFF, Laura Anne Harris talked to Cuevas and her most famous subject, Olga Breeskin, about making the film and Breeskin’s fascinating life story.
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Alice Lowe discusses the making of Prevenge, her wickedly funny directorial debut, from conception through to completion. Shot when she was seven months pregnant, the film is a revenge movie in which a foul-mouthed fetus sends its mother, Ruth (Alice Lowe), on a killing spree. This is an excerpt from our forthcoming ebook on feminist horror beyond empowertainment. To read the entire article, get your copy of the book here.
[Read more…] about TIFF16: Writer-director-star Alice Lowe discusses PrevengePakistan-born, Toronto-based filmmaker Haya Waseem discusses her TIFF short film Shahzad, Seventh Row’s pick for the best Canadian short at the festival.
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Gillie Collins talks to Jenni Olson about her 16mm film essay, The Royal Road, a meandering story about unrequited love told through the linear progression of California’s El Camino road.
[Read more…] about Writer-Director Jenni Olson on her film essay, The Royal RoadBefore the world premiere of her new film Journey is the Destination, Canadian filmmaker Bronwen Hughes talked to the Seventh Row about why the film is a passion project, how she mimicked Dan Eldon’s journals in the film’s visual style, and Ben Schnetzer.
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Métis filmmaker Terril Calder’s SNIP, screening in the Short Cuts section at TIFF, is one of the very best Canadian films at the festival. It’s also one of the most important because of how it reckons with Canada’s past violence towards indigenous people through the residential school system.
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