“Is sex ‘just sex’? Can trust exist in the age of Tinder and Grindr? The loss of innocence can come at any age, and when a younger man pushes an older one to look at his romantic ideas of marriage and monogamy, the afterglow of sex takes on a very different light.” Director Doug Tompos […]
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VIFF 2018 Interview: THE RACER director Alex Harron
“The Racer is about a young women pursuing her dream of becoming a top motorcyclist. despite all the obstacles in her way. Including finances and perception that female racers aren’t as good as their male counter parts.” Congratulations on your film playing and welcome to VIFF! Is your first time here and are you planning […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: CATERPILLARPLASTY director David Barlow-Krelina
“Discover ultimate beauty! In an advanced society, the caterpillar has divine significance and the people desire metamorphosis. Enter the Iridescent Lifestyle Institute and become the embodiment of perfection.” Director David Barlow-Krelina on CATERPILLARPLASTY which screens at the 2018 edition of VIFF. Congratulations on your film playing and welcome to VIFF! Is your first time here […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: VOLCANO director Roman Bondarchuk
“This is a story about Lukas, an interpreter for a military checkpoint inspection tour, who gets lost near a remote Ukrainian town. This is also portrait of deserted land, during a very dramatic moment of history in my country; of new provincial order, where people live their own lives, some of them even without any […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: SEEN FROM ABOVE director Patrick Brooks
“It’s a complicated coming of age story between a girl, a boy and his drone. Teenager Vivian is visiting her grandparents for summer vacation, when she sees a drone spying on her outside her window. But it’s owner, the boy next door, is about the most interesting thing she’s seen all week. With the drone […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: BODIES director Laura Nagy
“BODIES is a 15 minute drama exploring a toxic friendship between two teenage girls, as their shared obsession with their gym class teacher reaches breaking point. Each girl has an intense relationship with their bodies – Amelia has cerebral palsy, and Zoe has an eating disorder. Adding to that the cocktail of puberty, their extremely […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: Meet the team from YOU DON’T KNOW ME!
“A film based on a letter that a woman, a rape victim, wrote and read in court for her abuser. As an artist, we have always been impelled to work on issues that would impel society to understand and transform itself.” Taís Alves, actress: As a woman, I had resistance to talking about rape, […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: DAWN director Jörn Threlfall
“The high desert of New Mexico, 1945. On the surface, a day like any other. But this one heralds the dawn of a new beginning. Nothing will be the same ever again.” Director Jörn Threlfall on DAWN which screens at the 2018 edition of VIFF. Congratulations on your film playing and welcome to VIFF! Is […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: THEO AND CELESTE director Hannah Dougherty
“This film is about how far you will go for someone you love. Theo and Celeste play a game of ‘would you still be my friend if’ to test their new friendship and their hypothetical questions become reality, forcing them to confront their deepest fears and strongest yearnings.” Director Hannah Dougherty on THEO AND CELESTE […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF DESIRE director Hao Wu
The following interview took place at this year’s South By Southwest Film Festival. It has been re-edited for inclusion in coverage of this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. “People’s Republic of Desire tells a real-life Black-Mirror-like story, in which technology gives young people otherwise of no future prospect a chance at fame and fortune, but […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: HARD RUBBISH director Stephen Packer
“When I was 15 my friends and I got the snot beaten out of us by an older gang while we were vandalising a girls high school. HARD RUBBISH is the story of that night.” Director Stephen Packer on HARD RUBBISH which screens at the 2018 edition of VIFF. Congratulations on your film playing and […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: A PICNIC TABLE, AT DUSK director Sheridan O’Donnell
“A PICNIC TABLE, AT DUSK tells the story of Ivy, played by Kelowna native Taylor Hickson, who is a grieving teenager who spends most of her days sitting at a picnic table at the park near her house. One day she decides to leave a message on the table, an angry shout into the void. […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: WAITING FOR APRIL director Olivier Godin
“This film is about a man with a gorilla arm. This man, who also happens to play Jesus in a TV series, is in possession of a singing bone. All this is mysterious, I grant you, but that’s why Detective Haffigan is on the case. This policewoman, an enemy of gentleness and a strong believer […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: AKEDA director Dan Bronfeld
“My film Akeda follows a child as he is being lead by a film director on a propaganda film set.” Director Dan Bronfeld on AKEDA which screens at VIFF 2018. So how did you get into this business? Talk to me a bit about how you got your start and what you have worked on […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: FROM ACROSS THE STREET & THROUGH TWO SETS OF WINDOWS director Steven McCarthy
“The film opens on a woman in the dark in her sleek, modern condo staring at the building opposite hers. Her neighbour across the street, is a man, naked at his window. The story is about voyeurism, the desire for connection, and the stories we tell ourselves when we need to isolate ourselves from the […]