Rebecca Addelman discusses Paper Year, fictionalising her first marriage into her feature debut, which took years of rewrites, great casting, and generous collaboration. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
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Review: First Stripes depicts masculinity in training
First Stripes reveals how training designed to equalize recruits ends up reproducing a conservative set of norms.
This is an excerpt from the ebook The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook, which also contains an in-depth interview with the film’s director, Jean-François Caissy, and the film’s editor, Mathieu Bouchard-Malo (who also edited Genèse and The Great Darkened Days).
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[Read more…] about Review: First Stripes depicts masculinity in trainingHotDocs interview: A country is drowning in Anote’s Ark
Photographer Matthieu Rytz turned to documentary filmmaking to tell the story of an island that will soon be eradicated by rising sea levels with Anote’s Ark.
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Based on Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese’s novel set in the 1960s, Stephen Campanelli’s Indian Horse uses the hook of Canada’s national sport — hockey — to grapple with Canada’s darkest policy: the Indian residential school system. Read the rest of our TIFF coverage here.
[Read more…] about Review: Indian Horse and the limits of allyship in adaptationDirector Ann Shin on making My Enemy, My Brother
Director Ann Shin and producer Hannah Donegan discuss the making of My Enemy, My Brother, Shin’s poignant documentary about two men who fought on opposite sides of the Gulf War.
[Read more…] about Director Ann Shin on making My Enemy, My BrotherMina Shum ‘wanted Maria to receive the Batman treatment’
Canadian director Mina Shum on her unusually uplifting film, Meditation Park, about a middle-aged Chinese immigrant whose life drastically changes after her husband’s infidelity forces her to find her independence.
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