FNC Capsule Reviews: FNC 2023 29 Nov 202329 Nov 2023 It is always good to return to where we have always been welcomed. This year’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema brought to Montreal a sturdy selection of films that are committed…
FNC FNC National Short Film Competition Highlights 29 Nov 202329 Nov 2023 Those who know me know that I live and breathe Canadian cinema and am absolutely obsessed with shorts. That’s why for the 52nd edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma…
FNC… In Conversation: Amat Escalante and Mexican Rendered Realities 29 Nov 2023 During the latest edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinema, I had the chance to watch Perdidos de Noche (2023) the newest film by Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante. The movie…
FNC… In Conversation: Melisa Liebenthal, Faces, Places and Identities 29 Nov 2023 There is a rare moment of consciousness while watching a film when you realize what you are watching is forthrightly unique. This is the case for Argentinean director, Melisa Liebenthal,…
In Conversation… In Conversation Leslie Norville, Black Life: Untold Stories and Industry Perspectives 3 Nov 202317 Aug 2024 With the American film industry strikes having detrimentally halted or delayed production on many films at different levels for one hundred and forty-eight days, Short Ends Collective had the opportunity…
Festival Spotlights… Capsule Reviews: TIFF 2023 29 Sep 202317 Jan 2024 Cerrar los Ojos - Dir. Víctor Érice (Spain) Cerrar los Ojos follows a film director as he tries to find his best friend who disappeared decades ago, coincidentally, his friend…
In Conversation… In Conversation: Ángeles Cruz, Serenity, and Ancestral Emotional Connections 29 Sep 202317 Aug 2024 In the frame of the 2023 Edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, I had the opportunity to watch (admittedly, more than once) Ángeles Cruz’s newest feature film Valentina o…
In Conversation In Conversation: Meredith Hama-Brown, Unearthing Canadian Histories and Identities in Seagrass 29 Sep 20231 Nov 2023 Meredith Hama-Brown’s stunning debut feature film Seagrass evokes 1990s British Columbia, recalling the feel of Canadian cinema of the time (Double Happiness dir. by Mina Shum and Exotica dir. by…
Festival Spotlights… Festival Spotlight: TIFF 2023 29 Sep 202329 Sep 2023 First times are always nerve-racking, and although we have gone through many (maybe too many) film festivals before, we had never witnessed something of the magnitude of the Toronto International…
Phantasmagoria Rendering the Dream in the Simulation: Paprika 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 Satoshi Kon’s animated film Paprika (2006) explores the phantasmagoric and fantastic between the blurred states of dreams and reality where the hyperreal, the uncanny, and the inexplicable manifest that link…
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