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• Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  When I show this film in my Feminism & Popular Culture classes, my students often comment upon how unusual it is to see older and unidealized naked bodies...

• Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  She takes up a job as a bearded lady in a sideshow but eventually comes back to her partner. It would seem that she misses flying through the...

• Alone Together, Fast and Slow: Browsing through the films of Greetings from Isolation

  The temporal properties of film and digital media, along with their realist effects and documentary roots, allow movies to capture the time of our present in intricate and convincing...

• Alone Together, Fast and Slow: Browsing through the films of Greetings from Isolation

  These short films have been released online since May 2020 and, for the most part, were produced during the early stages of the pandemic. They capture the feelings...

• Alone Together, Fast and Slow: Browsing through the films of Greetings from Isolation

  As evinced by the films described thus far, there is great diversity to the project but, by virtue of the works being made by filmmakers – rather than,...

• Alone Together, Fast and Slow: Browsing through the films of Greetings from Isolation

  During one of my sessions of browsing these films, I was surprised by the feeling of traveling across Canada that the movies evoke as the filmmakers bring us...

• Alone Together, Fast and Slow: Browsing through the films of Greetings from Isolation

  How do these films capture our pandemic present and how will they be understood in the future? Will we watch them years from now and get this same...

• Inside “Western” Filmmaking: An interview with Katie Wackett of CSIF

  As mostly a demographic term, “Western” also carries with it the connotation of access within Canada’s publicly funded system. In particular, regional centres of Western filmmaking have traditionally been...

• Inside “Western” Filmmaking: An interview with Katie Wackett of CSIF

  *KA:  Could you speak to some of the biggest challenges facing “Western” filmmakers overall?* KW: One of the main things that arises is being able to get outside of...

• Inside “Western” Filmmaking: An interview with Katie Wackett of CSIF

  KW: On a provincial level, the people in charge of our provincial funding are focused on bringing in productions that just want to shoot here…for the landscape. AKA service...