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Canadian Film - Podcasts

The Seventh Row Podcast prides itself on curating and highlighting the best Canadian films for a Canadian and international audience. These films tend to pass under-the-radar, even in Canada. We especially focus on Québécois cinema, films by women, and Indigenous films.

Past episodes include deep dives on Canadian filmmakers (e.g., Anne Émond, Pascal Plante, Jeff Barnaby), spotlights on Indigenous films (Run Woman Run, Remembering Jeff Barnaby, Indigenous YA Part 1 and Part 2), and other highlights (e.g., Take This Waltz, Paper Year, Sugar Daddy, Mouthpiece).

We've covered several Canadian documentaries, including No Ordinary Man, John Ware Reclaimed, and First Stripes.

Finally, we often do podcasts episodes where we compare an under-seen Canadian film to a more well-known American or international film. E.g., Spinster (Canada) and The Forty-Year-Old Version, My Internship in Canada and In the Loop, First Stripes (Canada) and Boys State.

When we cover the Toronto International Film Festival, we make a point of discussing the Canadian films, as we did in TIFFHighlights of 2022 Fall Festivals, TIFF 2021 Part 1, TIFF 2021 Part 2, TIFF 2020 Part 1, and TIFF 2020 Part 2, and Canadian Cinema at TIFF 2019.

Seventh Row Editors / May 19, 2021

Ep. 92: Sugar Daddy and An Easy Girl: Commodifying women

In this episode, we discuss two recent films directed by women about how women commodify themselves and are commodified by society and the people around them: Wendy Morgan’s Sugar Daddy and Rebecca Zlotowski’s Easy Girl. We ask how these films comment on patriarchal norms without (or if they manage to do so) reproducing them.

Seventh Row Editors / April 28, 2021

Ep. 89: Spinster and The Forty-Year-Old Version: Coming of age at forty

This podcast episode explores two wonderful 2020 dramedies, Spinster and The Forty-Year-Old Version, about women who find themselves at a personal and career crossroads as they approach forty.

Seventh Row Editors / October 27, 2020

Ep. 63: Indigenous YA, part 2

This episode concludes our two part discussion of contemporary Indigenous young adult films. We discuss some of the best Indigenous YA films from the recent past, think about the difference between films made by Indigenous and settler filmmakers, and outline the genre’s defining traits.

Seventh Row Editors / October 20, 2020

Ep. 62: Indigenous YA, part 1

On this episode we begin our two part discussion of contemporary Indigenous young adult films (and television). We focus on three of the newest entries in the genre, Beans, Trickster, and Monkey Beach.

Seventh Row Editors / September 22, 2020

Ep. 58: A look back at TIFF 2020, part 1

In this episode, we discuss highlights of TIFF 2020, from buzzed-about films like Ammonite and Nomadland to lesser known hidden gems.

Seventh Row Editors / August 18, 2020

Ep. 53: Boys State and First Stripes

In this episode we compare two political, but not didactic, documentaries, Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s new film Boy’s State and Jean-François Caissy’s 2018 film First Stripes.

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