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.
Canadian cinema
‘I don’t go with a game plan’: Director Sofia Bohdanowicz on Maison du Bonheur
Director Sofia Bohdanowicz discusses her process, representing older women in film, and photographing lived in spaces in her new film Maison du Bonheur.
‘I’m fascinated by the industrialization of the birthing process’: Director Heather Young on Milk
Canadian writer-director-editor Heather Young discusses her short, Milk. Watch the film for free here. Young has since made a great feature debut, Murmur, which we interviewed her about here.
‘It was exciting to see the possibilities that should be there for all’: Alanis Obomsawin on Our People Will Be Healed
Documentarian Alanis Obomsawin discusses depicting community, gaining the trust of her subjects, and centering their voices in her 50th film on contemporary indigenous issues in Canada.
‘I wanted to show that kind of strength that women have’: Kathleen Hepburn on her debut feature Never Steady, Never Still
Canadian Director Kathleen Hepburn discusses her feature debut,Never Steady, Never Still, which beautifully tackles Parkinson’s disease.
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches reinvents Quebec horror
Simon Lavoie’s gorgeous adaptation of the popular Québécois novel, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches critiques, subverts, and reinvents the Quebec horror film.