Co-director and Haida artist Gwaai Edenshaw discusses his landmark film Edge of the Knife (Sgaawaay K'uuna), the first feature film made in the Haida language. …
Canadian cinema
Interview: Anthropocene is an awe-inspiring look at environmental destruction
Co-directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier discuss their third film collaboration, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. This is an …
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TIFF should do more for Canadian cinema
The Canadian films at TIFF this year were especially great, but the festival should have done more to bring them to the attention of critics and audiences. This …
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TIFF18’s brightest star was Canadian cinema
At TIFF18, almost all of the best films I saw were Canadian — and that’s not grading on a curve. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook …
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Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman
Writer-director Darlene Naponse on Falls Around Her, making a film about an unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals …
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Establishing Shots: Rebecca Addelman on her marriage drama, Paper Year
Rebecca Addelman discusses Paper Year, fictionalising her first marriage into her feature debut, which took years of rewrites, great casting, and generous …
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