Production Context Flashcards
WHO directed Stories We Tell ❓
Sarah Polley
WHERE was Stories We Tell produced + relevance? 🍁
1) Canada 🇨🇦
2) She’s Canadian telling her memoir (Involves Canada obv)
Which company produced SWT ❓🍁 + relevance.. 🔬
National 🎥 Board of 🇨🇦
1) AGAIN it’s focus is on Canadian Stories (like Polleys)
SWT Cinematographer❓👁️🌈 😤
Iris NAG
SWT Editor❓🟢👁️
🎶-U bitches still can’t chin check me🎶
Mike Munn
SWT Costume designer❓🧍♂️🌙
Sarah Armstrong 💪🏼
SWT Composer 🎻 ❓⚜️
Jonathan Goldsmith ⭐️
SWT Screenwriter❓👭
Sarah Polley
SWT Sound designers❓👥👥👥👥👥
🔟 🎶 Designers
➕ Critic Review-
1) Who?👩🏫
2) Where? 💂♀️
3) ⭐️ + What? 🥩/🩸/🩷
1) Peter Bradshaw
2) The Guardian
3) 5️⃣⭐️ -
’Tender, Painful, intimate’
➖Reviews-
1) Who? 👺
2) Where? 🎬🦯
3) ⭐️s + What? 🔚🔚🔚
1) Anonymous ✍️
2) Movie guide
3) 2⭐️
’Boring and overlong, with multiple endings’^
SWT Rotten tomato score 🍅 😊 + Achievement 1️⃣👩🏻🎤
1) 95%
2) Canadian Screen Award for Best feature length doc [2013]
Is Stories We Tell a genre 🎥? 🌱
YES
Documentary film style
• Real events
• Actuality footage
• Voice over narration
All the People in SWT
1) Sarah (director/daughter)
2) Diane Polley (mum)
2) Michael Polley (dad)
3) Harry Gulkin (bio dad)
4) Joanne and Mark (1/2 sib M)
5) John and Susy (1/2 sib 1st 💍)
6) Geoff Bowes (speculated dad)
7) Victoria Mitchell (Diane’s friend)
8) Deirdre (Diane’s friend)