This episode highlights a session from last summer's Lockdown Film School with Penny Lane and Carol Nguyen. Lane and Nguyen discuss their approaches to creative nonfiction. It was recorded as a conversation between Lane, Nguyen, Editor-In-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith in May 2020 as part of our Lockdown Film School series. On this episode

• Why this episode and the origins of creative nonfiction (1:17)
• Intro with Penny Lane and Carol Nguyen (4:18)
• Why creative nonfiction (7:03)
• Inspirations (17:03)
• Documentary vs creative nonfiction as a label (20:49)
• Editing and pre-screening (26:01)
• Animation in documentary (33:02)
• Audience questions (41:31)

Show notes:

• Read Orla's article "What is creative nonfiction?"
• Read Alex's review of Penny Lane’s Nuts!.
• Watch Watching the Pain of Others, Chloé Galibert-Laîné’s excellent and artful video essay on Penny Lane’s films, focusing on the emotional impact that Lane’s The Pain of Others had on her and the way the film’s editing creates and shapes audience empathy.
• View the other Lockdown Film School sessions

Related episode

• Ep. 95: Reclaiming history in documentary: No Ordinary Man and John Ware Reclaimed
• Ep. 46: Mina Shum and Philippe Falardeau
• Ep. 12: Hail Satan? featuring director Penny Lane

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On this episode, we discuss two renditions of Tony Kushner’s gay fantasia Angels in America: Mike Nichols’ HBO Miniseries from 2003 and the NTLive recording of Marianne Elliot’s 2017 production at the National Theatre in London.

This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and special guests Dr. Emily Garside and Noemi Berkowitz

On this episode, we discuss the work of bisexual Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan, who is best known for the films Appropriate Behaviour and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, as well as the TV shows The Slope and The Bisexual.

The episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney. Executive Editor Orla Smith, and special guest Lena Wilson.

This summer, Seventh Row is hosting The 2021 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: a series of masterclasses, screenings, and discussions about boundary-pushing nonfiction filmmaking.

But what do we mean when we say "Creative Nonfiction"? We discuss on this bonus episode.

Pre-registration for the workshop closes on Wednesday June 23 at midnight ET, so make sure you sign up by then if you're interested in attending. The only way to purchase tickets is to pre-register.

To pre-register and find out more about the workshop, visit lockdownfilmschool.com/nonfiction

In this episode, we discuss two films about close female friendships between teenage girls — that may tip into sapphic love — and how they are affected when the girls are possessed by the patriarchy: Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies (2007) and Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body (2009).

The episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney. Executive Editor Orla Smith, Editor-at-Large Mary Angela Rowe, and special guest Lena Wilson.

We discuss two of the best films of 2021, No Ordinary Man and John Ware Reclaimed, documentaries that use creative techniques to reclaim lost history. We touch on why nonfiction is such a great medium for telling historical stories, because it's uniquely equipped to connect those stories to our lives today.

This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associated Editor Brett Pardy, and special guest Courtney Small.

On the first in our series of Pride Month episodes, we delve into one of our favourite TV shows, HBO's Looking.

This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and special guest Andrew Kendall.

On this episode, we have a wide-ranging conversation about the history of AIDS on film, inspired by the recent TV miniseries, It's a Sin.

We focus on films from the US, UK, France, and Australia, including BPM, Holding the Man, Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo, Philadelphia, and How to Survive a Plague.

Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith welcome a new guest, Dr. Emily Garside. Dr. Garside did her PhD on theatrical representations of the AIDS crisis, with a focus on Angels in America and Rent.

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In addition to our weekly episodes, we are launching a new premium bonus podcast for Film Adventurer members. Additionally, all episodes of our podcast older than six months will be available only to Film Adventurer members.

Listen to Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith explain how the premium feed works and highlight their favourite episodes from our archives.

Become a Film Adventurer today for $39.99 (CAD) per year.

We celebrate Mother's Day with an episode on the queen of on-screen mothers, Chantal Akerman, and her films Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles and Les Rendez-vous d'Anna.

On this episode:

• Chantal Akerman's legacy (4:20)
• Jeanne Dielman (17:52)
• What to make of Jeanne Dielman's ending (34:31)
• Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (41:03)
• Mothers in the two films (55:25)
• Jewish identity in Akerman's films (1:00:52)
• Akerman's aesthetic (1:09:24)
• Conclusion (1:13:36)

This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and Contributing Editor Lindsay Pugh.

Episode Notes:

 

• Read Alex's review of Chantal Akerman's 2015 film, No Home Movie
• Preview or purchase our ebook Tour of memories: The creative process behind Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir
• Preview or purchase our ebook Road to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt's broken American dreams.
• Preview or purchase our ebook Peterloo in process: A Mike Leigh collaboration
• Listen to our episode featuring Promising Young Woman (content warning: discussion of sexual violence)
• Listen to our episode featuring Spinster
• Read our newest feature, our editors picks for the fifty most exciting emerging actors working today

 

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