2008 Winter
Table of Contents
Filmmakers who can't land a traditional deal are quickly learning that online distribution is bcoming a viable outlet.
Radheyan Simonpillai
"[Making Leningradsksaya] was a matter of slowly revealing the story with a lot of silence and landscape to punctuate and contain the horror of this great human suffering."
John Walker
"There in nothing "generous" about denying $1.76m to a film that qualified for it or diminishing the amount promised."
Mark Achbar
"A gritty, no-budget pot boiler, Curtis's Charm is a stylish tragedy, a film rife with tension..."
Matthew Hays
"Rather than seeking one specific memory of a place, Agnès Varda's Les Plages 'Agnès uses the symbol of th ebeach as connective tissue between a hudnred different scenes from her life."
Jessica Duffin Wolfe
"The goal of any filmmaker at a festival should be to garner as much attention for his or her film while spending as little money as possible."
Morgan Spulock (Super Size Me)
"I've kind of looked at Cirque du Soleil as being a little like the NFB [National Film Board]...They were kind of like my second or third film school because they let me do what I wanted to do each time."
Adrian Willis
"Lepage's "language" is that of improvisation, and his mother tongue in music is experimental jazz."
Heidi McKenzie
"We live in a media world... a world where wars are not fought on the battleground. Wars are fought in the media. Change can also happen in the media."
Velcrow Ripper

POV INTERVIEW

by Marc Glassman

Director, cinematographer and writer John Walker talks candidly with POV's editor Marc Glassman about his career. Part 1 of 2.

MEMORY AND THE DOCUMENTARY

Archival Places

by Jessica Duffin Wolfe

Documenting memories is a poetic process. Jessica Duffin Wolfe looks at evocations of memory in four new docs, Tehran Has No More Pomegranates, Waltz with Bashir, Les Plages 'Agnès, La Mémoire des Anges and Of Time and the City.

What Remains

by Tom McSorley

Tom McSorley writes about his memories of Frank Cole, the fearless maverick filmmaker who died in the Sahara in 2000.

PROFILES

Lights, Spirit, Action

by Nancy Lanthier Nancy

Lanthier explores how Velcrow Ripper's fierce light shines on compassionate change through the world.

Sneaking Through the Middle

by Adam Nayman

When Cirque du Soleil met the Beatles, sparks were sure to fly. Adam Nayman meets with Adrian Willis to discuss how he documented the process in All Together Now.

Robert Marcel Lepage

by Heidi McKenzie

Composer Robert Marcel Lepage shares his working philosophy with Heidi McKenzie in this extended Soundscaping column.

FESTIVALS

Festival Download

by Radheyan Simonpillai

Festival Download: Does new media pose a threat to the robust film festival industry? Radheyan Simonpillai looks at the role of festivals in the new Cyber Age and tells us what industry insiders have to say, including Jaman founder and CEO Gaurav Dhillon to FilmCAN co-founder and publisher Ryan Noth.

Fest o' fools

by Peter Wintonick

POV's international editor and festival maven Peter Wintonick weighs forth on doc fests with a slew of distinguished colleagues who span the globe from Guangzhou to Santa Monica to Leipzig.

COLUMNS

Legends: Curtis's Charm, ten years later.

by Matthew Hays

Recalling a piece of offbeat Canadiana

Pointed View: An Open Letter to Wayne Clarkson

by Mark Achbar

Why is Telefilm treating The Corporation so badly? Achbar wants to know.