Asante details the long road to making her passion project, Where Hands Touch, and explains the importance of nuance in her controversial love story. …
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Female Directors
In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.
Director Tuva Novotny and actress Pia Tjelta discuss one-take wonder Blind Spot
Director Tuva Novotny and lead actress Pia Tjelta discuss Blind Spot, a technically and conceptually dazzling feature debut about the stigma around mental …
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Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman
Writer-director Darlene Naponse on her unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals and sound, and the respect and care …
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Interview: Carmel Winters on her TIFF Discovery film Float Like a Butterfly
Irish writer-director Carmel Winters discusses her second feature, Float Like a Butterfly, a female coming-of-age story set in the 1970s amongst the Irish …
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‘Making visceral images demands a lot of preparation’: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani discuss Let the Corpses Tan
Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani discuss adapting a novel for the first time, creating visceral rather than ornamental images, and the unique approach …
Behind the Lens: The Miseducation of Cameron Post DP Ashley Connor
Placing The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Madeline's Madeline side by side, it seems like DP Ashley Connor can do anything. Read more interviews with …
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Establishing Shots: Zsófia Szilágyi on One Day
Hungarian director Zsófia Szilágyi discusses her impressive feature debut One Day, avoiding cliches while telling a typical story, fighting over the film’s …
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Establishing Shots: Rebecca Addelman on her marriage drama, Paper Year
Addelman discusses fictionalising her first marriage into her feature debut, which took years of rewrites, great casting, and generous collaboration. …
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Growing up and growing apart in Leave No Trace
Debra Granik's film uses the unusual story of a father and daughter living in the woods to tell the classic coming-of-age narrative of parent-child separation. …
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Debra Granik: ‘It is dangerous to tell a story with no villain’
Director Debra Granik discusses what made her want to turn this story into a film, her non-judgmental outlook on her characters, her research process, and her …
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