Short film is a medium that encourages, often demands a strong stylistic approach. There is little time to delve into complexity, or to paint completely formed characters in a script, so the visual element becomes an exceedingly important component. A short film with an assured v... Read More »
Walking into a building I have visited countless times yesterday, I was greeted by a man who was a stranger to me, but seemed to recognize me. He was excited to see me and began spilling out details of his life and recollections from our previous conversation, one that I am reaso... Read More »
Stephen Broomer is an avant-garde filmmaker, film preservationist, teacher, and a member of the Loop Collective (a group of independent media artists that provides a public forum for integrating experimental film and video with other art forms). His films provoke questions and di... Read More »
There’s always a delicate balancing act, when making a documentary to raise awareness of an issue, between proselytizing and filmmaking. The sort of director who is passionate enough about the issue to dedicate the time and resources to document it often loses sight of a lot of o... Read More »
Director Sarah Polley is most widely known as an actress (Splice 2009, Dawn of Dead 2004) and in her native home Canada for her political activism. Her first film Away From Her was academy award nominated for screenplay, and her second film Take This Waltz premiered at Toronto I... Read More »
Self-placed in isolation amongst a desolate winter environment, Lena (Claudia Dey) searches for solace to remedy the uncertainty and ennui that comes with knowing of one’s fatal disease. The serene atmosphere of quiet nothingness and large expanses of fresh white powder is put in... Read More »
The short film, like the short story, is in many ways a completely different medium than its lengthier counterpart. With less time to tell a story, to add depth, or to explore an idea, short films must adapt in one of a variety of ways. The best among them come up with a clever s... Read More »
The idea of “having it all” has become a potent and perilous one in recent feminism, a heady combination of inviting women to strive for an elusive work-life balance and a constant reminder of the inevitability that something has to give. It is in this headspace that We Wanted Mo... Read More »
Award-winning filmmaker Chelsea McMullan takes audiences on a poetic journey through landscapes both real and emotional in My Prairie Home, an intimate portrait of transgender singer Rae Spoon. Neither a concert film nor a conventional biographical doc, this documentary-musical o... Read More »
When one thinks of a gypsy, one thinks of the stereotyped romantic, mysterious, nomadic wanderer portrayed in film and television. The Romani are an ethnic group who trace back their roots to the Indian Subcontinent and then spread about Europe. Roma are a subgroup of the Romani ... Read More »
There are some films that you discover are so unexpected, so surprising that it leaves you with a strange sense of disappointment. Rufus had this effect on me, not because of the poor quality of the film, but due to the fact that I just don't think enough people will see what is ... Read More »
I had the pleasure of interviewing Nikola Curcin, the writer-director of the new film Adriatico My Love, a story of romance and familial bonds set in the beautiful Mediterranean region of the title. This is Curcin’s third film, following 1987’s Sentimental Journey and 1997’s My S... Read More »
