Making a digi-doc series on Regent Park taught veteran director Moze Mossanen important lessons. He reflects upon the journey towards finding the right format for his story.
For most of the 20th century, film production on the Canadian prairies was small, and the vast majority of homegrown work was in educational, industrial, wildlife, promotional, and sponsored films. One who excelled in this type of filmmaking from the 1920s to the 1970s was Winnipeg’s Francis Holmes.
“A cat meowing at your feet, looking up at you, is life smiling at you,” says one of the many affectionate cat people of Kedi. “Those are the moments when we’re lucky they remind us we’re alive.”