“Our film is about a woman who watches her neighbour across the street. She watches him as he eats dinner, talks on the phone, plays nintendo…stands naked in the window. She’s become obsessed. But it’s not sexual. His presence seems to comfort her loneliness.” Writer Rayisa Kondracki on FROM ACROSS THE STREET & THROUGH TWO […]
VIFF 2018
VIFF 2018 Interview: ELI director Colin Gerrard
“An elderly man’s visit to his local doctor ends up changing the lives of the other patients in the waiting room. Most of the somewhat disillusioned strangers start raising questions over immigration, identity and morality until the old man begins to tell a story he’s kept hidden for years.” Director Colin Gerrard on ELI which […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: HOLY ANGELS director Jay Cardinal Villeneuve
The following is an interview I conducted at last year’s Whistler Film Festival. It has been edited for inclusion in this year’s VIFF coverage. “Holy Angels uses the life-affirming power of dance and the resilience of an unbowed young protagonist to explore the devastating impact of residential school.” Director Jay Cardinal Villeneuve on HOLY ANGELS […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: IN LUCIA’S SKIN director Mayra Hermosillo & Ángel De Guillermo
“We are not aware that we are full of possibilities and that life is a constant opportunity to believe in the fundamental: love. It is the story of a mother and her daughter who arrive at the moment when it is time to allow the memory and choose between silence or allow truth and compassion […]
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: COMING OF AGE director Doug Tompos
“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 […]
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 […]