Award winning director Gail Harvey is a photographer and filmmaker. Her latest film, Looking Is The Original Sin is the story of a young daughter’s journey to understand her photographer mother’s life. It’s an intriguing tale, most of all, because it’s an almost invisible topic i... Read More »
John Kastner is an award winning Canadian documentarian and if you haven’t seen any of his films, this is a call saying that you should. After acting at a very young age, Kastner took on directing documentaries and went on to win four Emmys, and five Emmy nominations for his film... 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 »
This being my first interview on my own (my last one being Matt Johnson’s The The at the Sheraton Hotel in a room with a dozen other college radio reporters where I got one question in), I had no preconceptions on how it would go. I met the band at the shiny Cambridge Suites in d... Read More »
Last week, I was privileged to get a chance to ask Morgan White, director of the upcoming documentary The Rep. The Rep is a film about the first year in the life of the Toronto Underground Theater, a repertory theater (or classic movie house if you prefer) in the first year of i... Read More »
“It’s just very complicated,” say Teresa MacInnes and Kent Nason, multiple times, over the course of our interview on their new documentary on sex work in Canada and abroad. The married couple and filmmaking partnership are premiering Buying Sex on 1 May at Hot Docs. Read More »
With her debut feature currently enjoying sold-out screenings at Toronto's Carlton Cinema, I took the opportunity to talk to writer/director Sara St. Onge about Molly Maxwell, the challenges of a low budget and tight schedule, the influence of experience on the potentially contro... Read More »
Adrian Charlie: Congratulations on a funny film, Jackhammer. I attended the second screening (Sunday Feb 12pm Sunday) of the film at Victoria Film Fest. I was outside the theater during the first screening (7pm Saturday) everyone leaving had a smile on their face. Read More »
