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The Splinters ensemble — Sofia Banzhaf, Callum Dunphy, and Shelley Thompson — discuss making the film, finding their characters, collaborating with each other and director Thom Fitzgerald, and what makes the story a uniquely Maritime one.
This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about The Splinters ensemble discuss their moving LGBTQ filmCo-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. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about Interview: Edge of the Knife tells a pre-colonialism story of the Haida legend of ‘The Wildman’Co-directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier discuss their third film collaboration, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about Interview: Anthropocene is an awe-inspiring look at environmental destructionThe 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 is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about TIFF should do more for Canadian cinemaAt 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 which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about TIFF18’s brightest star was Canadian cinemaWriter-director Darlene Naponse on Falls Around Her, making a film about an unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals and sound, and the respect and care required to film on reservation land. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
[Read more…] about Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman