Interview

By Gary M. Kramer Edge of Seventeen is writer Todd Stephens’ seminal and semi-autobiographical 1988 coming out film. Directed by David Moreton (after Stephens stepped down), the film concerns Eric (an excellent Chris Stafford), who comes to terms with his sexual identity in 1984 Sandusky, Ohio. Eric’s best friend is […]

By Paul Risker. “I feel like it was a risk and I feel proud that I pulled it off,” says Jennifer Peedom of her Everest expose Sherpa (2015). The documentarian’s intentions are certainly noble, adopting the medium to capture a view of a world dramatised in fiction, explored in other documentaries, […]

By Paul Risker. Partisan (2015) is the directorial feature debut of Australian filmmaker Ariel Kleiman, who already has a humorous take on the filmmaking process. Ask him about how the experience of making a film changes you and he will list a series of statements of no more than a few […]

By Amir Ganjavie. Radu Muntean’ s new, critically acclaimed Romanian film One Floor Below recently won a Special Citation by the National Society of Film Critics, USA. It is a story of family man who decides to stay quiet after seeing the prelude to a murder. It’s difficult to explain this brilliant, slow-burning thriller, which […]

By Tom Ue. Adam Stephen Kelly is the author of over 700 articles, interviews, features and reviews, and he has been read by a worldwide audience in the millions. He is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and he has conducted interviews with Sir Roger Moore, Simon Pegg, and ‘Stone Cold’ […]

By Tom Ue. Trevor Anderson was born in Red Deer, Alberta, and is now based in Edmonton. His short films include “Rugburn” (2005); “Rock Pockets” (2007), which received the inaugural Lindalee Tracey Award at Hot Docs; “DINX” (2008); “Carpet Diem” (2008), “Punchlines” (2009), and “The Man That Got Away” (2012), […]

By Paul Risker. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s journey into the spotlight with Me, Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) began with his directing second unit photography for master filmmaker Martin Scorsese (Casino, 1995) and working alongside contemporary star directors: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, 2006), Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, 2009 and The […]

By Paul Risker. What is a list of titles that comprises a filmmaker or actor’s filmography if it is not a series of footsteps on a journey? A War (2016) represents a continuation, of two sets of footprints side by side as writer/director Tobias Lindholm and actor Pilou Asbaek continue their […]

By Tom Ue. Steven McCarthy was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. An actor, musician, and theatre director, he appeared in Kate Melville’s Picture Day (2012), which played the Toronto International Film Festival. O Negative (2015), his directorial debut, follows a man (McCarthy) who tries to care for and find shelter […]

By Paul Risker. Slow West (2015) finds a young filmmaker stepping onto the landscape of an established genre: America’s own, the Western. It is a journey onto an old and familiar stage that offsets Scottish writer/director John Maclean’s youthful career. Slow West is his feature directorial debut, preceded only by couple of […]