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Kalina Bertin's siblings in her HotDocs documentary Manic

Laura Anne Harris / May 2, 2017

HotDocs Interview: Director Kalina Bertin explores her family’s bipolar disorder in Manic

Canadian documentarian Kalina Bertin takes an unexpected journey into her family history of bipolar disorder in her HotDocs film Manic

A group of Mermaids on Huntington Beach in Ali Weinstein's documentary

Laura Anne Harris / May 1, 2017

HotDocs Interview: Director Ali Weinstein dives into a community of Mermaids

Canadian filmmaker Ali Weinstein explores how putting on a mermaid tail can help women transform into mystical powerful beings in Mermaids. For tickets and more information, visit the HotDocs website here.

Shoe Shine before and after in Stacey Tenenbaum's doc Shiners

Laura Anne Harris / April 29, 2017

HotDocs Interview: Stacey Tenenbaum on elevating the shoe shining profession in Shiners

Canadian filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum on how shoe shiners tell a story about class difference around the world in her HotDocs film Shiners. For HotDocs tickets and more information on the film, click here.

Deep Blue Sea

Alex Heeney / April 23, 2017

Davies’ adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea is a memory film with an unreliable narrator

In Terence Davies’ screen adaptation of Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, Davies plunges us into Hester’s memories, nudging us to accept her interpretation of events while providing the necessary evidence to doubt her perspective. This is the sixth and final feature in our Special Issue on Davies’ A Quiet Passion, which you can read in full […]

Colossal, Nacho Vigalando

Alex Heeney / April 21, 2017

Writer-director Nacho Vigalondo on Colossal

In this interview, Colossal writer-director Nacho Vigalondo discusses developing the film’s aesthetic, its set design, and its subjective sound design.

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Brett Pardy / April 20, 2017

A tyrant and control freak: the patriarch in Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives prefigures the father figures in his later films

In Terence Davies’ films, fathers tend to control the domestic sphere: the abusive patriarch in Distant Voices, Still Lives, based on Davies’ own father, prefigures those of Davies’ later literary adaptations. Editor’s note: This is the fifth feature in our Special Issue on Terence Davies’ A Quiet Passion, which can be read in full here.

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