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• Behind the Screen: Lessons from Making IN PLAINVIEW

  *TH: While you can easily access In Plainview anytime you want via Amazon’s streaming service, the road to getting it on there wasn’t nearly as quick as logging...

• Behind the Screen: Lessons from Making IN PLAINVIEW

  *TH: Whether you’re on your first film or your last, filmmaking is a learning process. There’s always something you wish you knew, something you could have done better.  What...

• PRAYER FOR A LOST MITTEN: An Interview with Jean-Francois Lesage

  In Jean-Francois Lesage’s 2020 documentary, Prière pour une mitaine perdu (Prayer for a lost mitten), we watch, with voyeur intimacy, the night thoughts of various citizens in Montréal, as...

• PRAYER FOR A LOST MITTEN: An Interview with Jean-Francois Lesage

  *Guillaume Carlier (GC): Was it a surprise when you won?* Jean-Francois Lesage (JL): Yes, it was a surprise. Usually in a festival you would be going to the...

• PRAYER FOR A LOST MITTEN: An Interview with Jean-Francois Lesage

  *GC: Where did the idea for the film come from?* JL: I wanted to make a film about longing. We don’t have this word in French, but it’s...

• PRAYER FOR A LOST MITTEN: An Interview with Jean-Francois Lesage

  *GC: Can you explain a bit more about starting a documentary from a feeling rather than a subject matter?* JL: I really tried to build an atmosphere, so...

• PRAYER FOR A LOST MITTEN: An Interview with Jean-Francois Lesage

  *GC: What I like about the structure is that it's not auteur driven. It starts with the subjects, and you create the story with the subjects. In a...

• PRAYER FOR A LOST MITTEN: An Interview with Jean-Francois Lesage

  *GC: What limitations from conventional documentary filmmaking are you resisting? I can feel that there are conventions that you are getting rid of. For instance, the lack of names,...

• PRAYER FOR A LOST MITTEN: An Interview with Jean-Francois Lesage

  *GC: What did you learn about Montréal when you made this film?* JL: I learned many things. I did a film before in Gaspésie, and the people who said...

• PRAYER FOR A LOST MITTEN: An Interview with Jean-Francois Lesage

  *GC: I think too, the choice of ending the film with collective hope rather than individual hope, can help. Especially because individual hope can be lonely, or even delusional....