MDFF is a Toronto-based production company that is committed to, in their own words, “exploring naturalistic, narrative and documentary forms in filmmaking with a focus on unique, director driven projects that display a strong sense of cinematic handwriting.”
The company was founded by producer Dan Montgomery and filmmaker Kazik Radwanski, while filmmaker Antoine Bourges has collaborated with MDFF on two short films. Together they have created six award-winning short films, including Radwanksi’s “Green Crayons” (2010) and Bourges’ “East Hastings Pharmacy” (2012). Their first feature film, Radwanski’s Tower, debuted at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival. We chatted with the trio about the MDFF project over a drink at Churchill.
Our interview with MDFF was a short interview in the sixth monthly issue of The Seventh Art as a “video magazine.” It was released in August 2012. Other Canadian filmmakers interviewed on video in our first year include Guy Maddin, Peter Mettler, Patricia Rozema, Nicolás Pereda, Bruce McDonald, and Ingrid Veninger. We also created a video essay about the “MDFF Trilogy” of short films — “Assault” (2007), “Princess Margaret Blvd.” (2008), and “Out in That Deep Blue Sea” (2009) — featured on a fundraising DVD, which you can watch here.
