Amma Asante details the long road to making her passion project, Where Hands Touch, and explains the importance of nuance in her controversial love story.
Women 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 illness.
Interview: Falls Around Her centres a complex, middle-aged, Indigenous woman
Writer-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.
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 Travellers community.
‘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 they demand from their actors.
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 cinematographers in our Behind the Lens series.