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VIOLATION (TIFF20) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

September 8, 2020September 13, 2020 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 0 Comments Dusty Mancinelli, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, TIFF, toronto international film festival, Violation

The depth of intelligence, sensitivity, ethical clarity and good old fashioned moxie that filmmakers Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli employ here is quite unlike anything I have ever seen before. Violation is the best film of the year, and demands we rethink questions of consent, virtue, subjectivity and the fantasy of justice to a degree that we are very rarely encouraged to.

Festivals

Midnight Madness Gender Parity at TIFF 2020 – Alexandra Heller-Nicholas reports

September 1, 2020September 13, 2020 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 0 Comments April Wolfe, gender parity, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, midnight madness, Peter Kuplowsky, Roseanne Liang, Shadow in the Cloud, tiff 2020, Violation

The 2020 Midnight Madness program is notable for reaching parity through an emphasis on both quantity and quality, making claims of tokenism effectively impossible. While the ethical debates around programming and equity in terms of gender and other points of difference are complex, to achieve gender parity in a program of top shelf films where 50% of the filmmakers are women and 50% are people of color is no small deal.