Alicia K. Harris is a Toronto-based filmmaker and director of 'PICK', screening at TIFF's Next Wave Young Creators Showcase (February 16, 2pm) Interview by Rebeccah Love What kind of creative activities did you get excited about as a kid? As a teenager? How, and when, did filmmaking come into your life? The first creative outlet I had was songwriting. When I was 10 I used to write about the love I heard about in love songs. I still love music more than anything! In high scho

Grayson Moore is a Toronto-based filmmaker. Interview by Rebeccah Love What types of creative activities do you remember engaging with as a kid? I’ve liked writing as long as I can remember. I wrote a short story in the second grade that I had a classmate illustrate, and we sold copies of the story for $5 to parents who weren’t about to give a hard ‘no’ to a couple of six year olds. The story was called The Couch Potato and the classmate was called Heather. It was a redemptio

Matthew Hornick is a member of shy kids, a band of filmmakers from Toronto. Interview by Rebeccah Love 'Terminally in Love with You', a collaboration between shy kids and CHOIR!CHOIR!CHOIR! Do you think Toronto is an artist-friendly city? It certainly seems so to me. Ever since we started releasing music and videos as shy kids there's been a healthy dose of local support from venues, publications, and the music community in general. Even though some of the famous venues have

Patrick Cederberg is a member of shy kids, a band of filmmakers from Toronto. Interview by Rebeccah Love the shy kids launched their new music video, 'the middle', this week. How can visual imagery heighten the experience of music? To me, an exceptional song (or in rare but exciting cases, an entire album) has the power to take me on a very affective journey - through emotional ups and downs, the building and release of tension, like an inhale and exhale and a visceral non-co

Eric Rowe is a Toronto-based cinematographer. This week he launches his cinematography reel, a two minute video that captures his quiet appreciation for simple gestures but also for the epic, for the magnificent, for the divine. Watch here. #cinematographer #film #filmmaker #toronto

Jenn Brown is the executive director of the St. John's International Women's Film Festival. Interview by Rebeccah Love 1. Can you tell me about the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival? What’s it all about? How did it get started? The St. John's International Women's Film Festival is one of the oldest women’s film festivals in the world, hosted in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Festival has been dedicated to screening films made by women for nearly 28 ye

Chloé is an actor, filmmaker, playwright and director based out of Toronto and Los Angeles. Interview by Rebeccah Love At what point in your life did you realize you wanted to pursue the arts in a serious way? In a way, I’ve always known. There was little else that interested me, career-wise. But actually committing to pursuing the arts in a serious way took a while. I kept waiting for something else to strike me, some other career, and so I stalled for a long time. That’s no