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Podcasts on films that screened at Sundance

Here you'll find all of our podcast episodes which cover films that played at the Sundance Film Festival in past years, from Sundance hits like Leave No Trace to under-the-radar films like The Assistant and Oslo, August 31st.

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Ep. 17: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale

In this episode of the Seventh Row podcast, we are joined by special guest Joe Lipsett to discuss Jennifer Kent’s revisionist rape revenge film The Nightingale. Listen to our mini-episode on the performances in the film here.

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Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste), Associate Editor Brett Pardy (@antiqueipod), and Editor at Large Mary Angela Rowe (@lapsedvictorian) welcome special guest Joe Lipsett (@bstolemyremote) to the podcast. We discuss The Nightingale‘s controversies, how Kent handles trauma, depicts colonialism, wonder where all the animals are, and much more.

Listen to our bonus mini-episode on the performances in The Nightingale here.

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About Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale

Set in Australia in 1825, The Nightingale follows a young Irish convict, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), on her mission of revenge through the Tasmanian wilderness. She’s chasing after the British officer (Sam Claflin) who brutally raped her and committed great violence against her family. Clare enlists the help of Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), an aboriginal man, as her guide.

Watch the trailer for The Nightingale here.

Listen to Joe Lipsett’s Horror Queers podcast and his podcast Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr, which looks at Young Adult books and their screen adaptations.

Orla Smith reviewed The Nightingale as part of her Sundance London ’19 Review Capsules.

Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country is a revisionist Australian western from an Indigenous point of view. Alex Heeney interviewed him about the film in 2018.

In our intro, we discuss Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece (also discussed in depth on Ep. 13) and Keith Berhman’s Giant Little Ones. Interviews with both directors, and much more, are included in our upcoming ebook, The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook. 

Catch up with more great Canadian films by taking the Canadian Cinema Challenge: we’ll curate some of the best films of the decade, help you locate how to stream them, and guide you through your viewing. Take the Canadian Cinema Challenge now.

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Ep. 12: Hail Satan? featuring director Penny Lane

Episode 12 welcomes our first director guest to the podcast. Penny Lane discusses her new documentary, Hail Satan?, about the political activism of the Satanic Temple, with Seventh Row editor-in-chief Alex Heeney and associate editor Brett Pardy.

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About Hail Satan?

Hail Satan? follows the rise of the Satanic Temple, a religious movement and social activist group with a wicked sense of humour. We discuss with director Penny Lane what attracted her to the story, her thoughts on how to responsibly portray the film’s subjects, and her filmmaking process from concept to editing. Hail Satan? was shot over two years and represents the first film for which Lane shot original on-the-ground footage rather than working with archival footage or developing animated sequences. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

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Hail Satan? continues to expand across the United States and Canada

For more information about Penny Lane and her projects, visit her website: https://pennylaneismyrealname.com/ and follow her on Twitter.

Alex interviewed Penny in 2016 about her film Nuts, which chronicles the life and work of Dr. John Brinkley, who made his name by transplanting goat testicles into infertile men, making liberal use of animated re-enactment. An excerpt of the interview is available here.

Our interview with Penny Lane on NUTS! is available as part of the eBook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1, which also includes interviews with Sophie Fiennes, Steve James, Joshua Oppenheimer, Alanis Obomsawin, D.A. Pennebaker, Frederick Wiseman, and more. The book is a carefully curated selection of our best interviews and features some of the most talented documentary directors from around the world, each with different (and sometimes conflicting) approaches and opinions. It will change how you think about documentaries and whether there’s any “right” way to make them. Find out more here.

This episode on Hail Satan? was edited by Edward von Aderkas.

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In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1

We drop you into the minds of some of today’s most influential documentarians, each with very different approaches, to question whether there’s any “right way” to make documentaries.

In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1

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Ep. 2: You Were Never Really Here

The second episode of our film podcast is now live! This in-depth conversation about Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here is a great complement to our ebook You Were Never Really Here: A Special Issue.

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Last week, we launched our brand new film podcast with an episode about Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace. This was only the first of many in-depth recorded conversations to come, about some of the best films in recent years — we are now posting our second podcast episode, this one about Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, one of the best films of 2018.

For this second episode, our host and Associate Editor Elena Lazic and Associate Editor Orla Smith, who spearheaded our Special Issue on You Were Never Really Here, are joined by Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney for a discussion on Lynne Ramsay’s fourth film. Between them, Orla and Elena have interviewed the key creative team behind the film, and they share the insights they gained from each of the interviews and from the collective group of them. The panel also addresses the film’s approach to the hitman genre, Ramsay’s visceral and haptic filmmaking, and more.

To get the most out of this podcast episode, we recommend listeners watch You Were Never Really Here and/or read our Special Issue on it before listening.

This podcast episode on You Were Never Really Here was edited by Edward von Aderkas.

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Ep. 1: Leave No Trace

For the first episode of the new Seventh Row podcast, our host and Associate Editor Elena Lazic is joined by Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Associate Editor Orla Smith, and Contributing Editors Gillie Collins and Brett Pardy, for a discussion about Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.

We chose to record a podcast episode on Leave No Trace because it’s one of our favourite films of the year and of the decade. We loved it so much that we wrote an entire ebook about it. In the book, you can find several writers who adore the film examining it from a variety of perspectives, whether that be an analysis of the film itself, an analysis of the performances, or a Debra Granik fan contextualising the film in her filmography.

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To get the most out of this episode, we recommend listeners watch the film and/or read our ebook on it before listening. The book is the essential companion to the film. It will make you see Granik’s latest masterpiece in a new light! It may also turn you on to her previous films, and help you realise to what extent Leave No Trace was a natural career progression for Granik.

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