An honourable mention for the BC Emerging Filmmaker Award at VIFF
“Elizabeth Lazebnik’s impressive directorial debut skillfully wraps the viewer into the claustrophobic, grief-stricken world of surrealist photographer, Hannah Maynard. Strong performances, unique camerawork and an eerie soundscape imbues this well-crafted first feature.”
Movies by female directors topped both the best international film and the Canadian categories The Power of the Dog topped the International Film nominees list
Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders received the most nominations in the Canadian section of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards. Raiders captured seven nominations, followed by All My Puny Sorrows and Scarborough with five
The annual festival closed with eight audience winners, while Kaveh Nabatian’s Sin La Habana won Best Canadian Film. Canadian documentary Handle With Care: The Legend of The
Art is a wide range of human activities (or the products thereof) that involve creative imagination and an aim to express technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power,
Look, I just had surgery a few days ago. I’m still all doped up, quite legitimately, but I’m still going to give some impressions on VIFF fare this week. These may not be the most cogent reviews I’ve ever written! First one up is Be Still, a BC-shot film about Victoria surrealist photographer Hannah Maynard, as played above by Piercey Dalton;
Small Body, Be Still, and Clara Sola focus on unforgettable female characters STRANGE, OBSESSED, marginalized, and unwilling to be confined: several striking films at this
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