With Nadia, Butterfly, Pascal Plante used his own experiences as a competitive swimmer to make a psychological character study about the sport where all the swimming is real.
Film Interviews
Interviews with female directors / Index of Interviews
Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.
An in-depth conversation with the women behind Mouthpiece
Director Patricia Rozema and actors Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, all of whom co-wrote Mouthpiece together, discuss adapting Mouthpiece from stage to screen, telling an unapologetically Canadian and feminist story, and much more. This interview is an excerpt. The full interview is only available in The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook. This article was originally published […]
Merawi Gerima’s Residue is an ‘archive of a community’ facing gentrification
Merawi Gerima’s directorial debut Residue, which ARRAY Now released on Netflix last Friday, is an impassioned ode to a rapidly gentrifying Washington D.C..
TIFF Interview: Michelle Latimer on Indigenous agency in Inconvenient Indian
Michelle Latimer discusses Inconvenient Indian, her award winning essay film, and reclaiming cultural images of Indigenous people.
TIFF Interview: Sofia Bohdanowicz on grief and magical thinking in Point and Line to Plane
Sofia Bohdanowicz’s short Point and Line to Plane is her most personal film to date, a meditation on grief that marks a formal shift for the director. Read her insights…
TIFF Interview: Sophy Romvari on Still Processing and personal cinema
Sophy Romvari’s deeply personal documentary short, Still Processing, is a triumph of personal cinema. Read about how Romvari made the film…