On The Road Forward: An Interview with Marie Clements By Adam Cook One of the most gifted artists working in BC today, Métis playwright and filmmaker Marie Clements has reached a new level of achievement with her documentary-musical, The Road Forward. Produced by The NFB, the film is a look at the history of activism … Continue reading
Cut Through the Stigma: An Interview with Hugh Gibson on The Stairs By Adam Cook Hugh Gibson’s award-winning documentary The Stairs deservedly joins the ranks of Canada’s finest documentaries. A humanist portrait of drug users in a harm reduction program in Regent Park in Toronto, Gibson avoids sensationalist tendencies and focuses on the people, their … Continue reading
An interview with Linda Ohama about A New Moon Over Tohoku By Adam Cook Linda Ohama’s new documentary, A New Moon Over Tohoku compassionately chronicles the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that devastated the coastal Japanese region of Tohoku through numerous interviews with survivors. An essential look into one of the most devastating natural … Continue reading
By Mariam Baldeh Corey Ouellet’s passion for working behind-the-scenes fuels many of his projects. When he’s not managing directors, producers, and actors in the film industry at Lucas Talent Inc., he’s appeasing his love of film at Vancity Theatre. This is his third year as a Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) volunteer and his second year … Continue reading
Cineworks Program Manager Jem Noble on Gathering Rhythms at Vancity By Adam Cook This Sunday at 7:45pm, Vancity Theatre is hosting a very special free screening featuring locally produced short films, live music, and the world premiere of a 26-minute short film, The Sound We See: A Vancouver City Symphony, made by 10 young people … Continue reading
“In Sunset Song, Terence Davies renders a young woman’s loves and strife with grandeur and austerity.” This month’s cover of ‘Film Comment‘ features an in depth interview with Terrence Davies on his literary adaptation of “Sunset Song,” Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic widely considered as a seminal Scottish novel. He speaks on everything from discovering the book … Continue reading
