The resilience you feel lighting a fire in your belly when you hear a Kim Harris song? It’s the singer-songwriter’s signature, and the reason (alongside her classically trained singing voice) that she’s sick of fielding comparisons to Adele. When Harris dropped her long-awaited sophomore album last year, it proved to be packed with the sort […]
Andrea Dorfman
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Best Filmmaker
Gold Winner Andrea Dorfman Silver Winner Koumbie Bronze Winner Josh Owen It’s been a busy year for Andrea Dorfman: Her searing NFB documentary The Girls of Meru, about child defilement in Africa, debuted at the Atlantic International Film Festival just as her latest feature, Spinster—the reason for all those Chelsea Peretti sightings—wrapped shooting. “I love […]
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AIFF 2018: 160 girls fight for justice in The Girls of Meru
The Girls of Meru Sunday, September 16, 1:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $12.50 ($11.25 stu/sen) finfestival.ca “I just wanted to focus on the case,” says Andrea Dorfman of her documentary The Girls of Meru. She says it multiple times, speaking with empathy and care for the 160 girls she made the movie […]
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25 for 25: episode 1999
Millennium panic looms over us this week so we try to distract ourselves with art, specifically Andrea Dorfman‘s debut feature Parsley Days. Dorfman biked by the day after wrapping shooting on her fourth feature, Spinster, aka the source of June’s Chelsea Peretti sightings. She talks abortion comedies, shooting in the north end on no budget, […]
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The Animation Festival of Halifax: More than just cartoons
AFX: The Animation Festival of Halifax Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street and others May 10-13 Free-$40 carbonarc.ca/tickets Picture this: You’re in your coziest PJs, crunching on sugary cereal and watching your favourite Saturday morning cartoons. That mental sketch might be reminiscent of the carefree days that were your childhood, but thanks to the […]
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CFAT’s Hyper colour
Hyper > Media > Paradise February 8-February 14 Opening reception Thursday, February 8, 7pm Centre for Art Tapes 2238 Maitland Street suggested donation $10 cfat.ca The Centre for Art Tapes hits the big four-oh this year, and one of its flagship events, the media arts scholarship, is not far behind. Video, audio, projection, virtual reality, […]
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Review: The Initial Show
The Initial Show Craig Gallery, Alderney Landing 2 Ochterloney Street To July 23 Artists’ talk Saturday, July 15, 2pm A singular Nova Scotian artistic voice is impossible to pin down—and The Initial Show, which runs until July 23 at the Craig Gallery in Dartmouth, stands as modest proof of the province’s artistic multeity. The show […]
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Best Filmmaker
Gold Winner Caley MacLennan Silver Winner Thom Fitzgerald Bronze Winner Andrea Dorfman “The first thing: making art, to me, is about collaborating with people the whole time and actually enjoying the process,” says MacLennan, who after a handful of successful shorts premiered his debut feature Noon Gun—your pick for Best Film—at the Atlantic Film Festival […]
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Beanyonce is crazy in love
What happens when filmmaker Andrea Dorfman, singer Jenn Grant and Coast celebrity canine Beans combine their talents? Best. Dog. Video. Ever. This is Beanyonce’s first starring role, and she couldn’t be happier than sharing it with her bestie Sophie. As you’ll see. Put it on heavy rotation for Valentine’s Day. No One's Gonna Love You […]
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Andrea Dorfman: Emmy nominee
Congratulations are in order for Andrea Dorfman on her Emmy nomination in the 33rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards for the warm, personal and charming Flawed. Nominated in the “New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries” category and broadcasted on PBS’ POV, Dorfman’s Flawed tells her simple, touching story through watercolour paintings about self-love […]
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Andrea Dorfman’s Flawed now online
If you missed it at the Atlantic Film Festival and other screenings in town, see the lovely short film Flawed by Andrea Dorfman here.
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Tanya Davis isn’t alone anymore, she’s in the Guardian
After being the subject of Russell Smith’s bizarro feminist rant yesterday in the Globe, today, the video collaboration of Tanya Davis and Andrea Dorfman made the Guardian‘s viral video chart, along with a legless cat, a kitten who can’t jump, Justin Bieber, a chimp and a frog. Watch for Davis, tonight on the National. Related […]