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Finn's Girl is a 2007 Canadian drama film, directed by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert. The film stars Brooke Johnson as Finn, a medical doctor mourning the recent death of her wife Nancy ( Gail Maurice ) while continuing to step-parent Nancy's rebellious daughter Zelly ( Maya Ritter ) and managing an abortion clinic which is being ...
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Laurie Colbert:Dom and I met 32 years ago and bonded, to a large degree, over our shared love of film. We never thought of being filmmakers — Dom was a civil servant; I was working as an English teacher. While living in Paris, we started to meet a lot of filmmakers and saw hundreds of films at the French Cinematheque and the Creteil Women’s Interna...
LC: We believe that being a feminist is not so much a choice as an imperative for anyone who has the luxury of free speech, which we do as Canadians. The reason we became filmmakers is that we felt compelled to share the reality of women’s experience. For us, feminism is really about self-determinism and an end to racial, gender and sexual oppressi...
LC: Right now we’re in the planning stages of a film or TV series about a gay tween who is becoming aware of her sexuality in a time where social media is trying to define it for her. As the daughter of recent immigrants, her journey is complicated by her parents’ support of movements (#MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter) that she knows she should care about...
LC: We’re both in love with The Woman Who Loves Giraffes directed by Alison Reid. It’s a beautifully-crafted documentary about scientist Anne Innis Dagg, arguably the first person to study an animal in the African wild, who pushed through aggressive sexism to follow her passion only to end up in virtual obscurity. The film is an amazing reclamation...
Jun 29, 2007 · A first narrative feature for longtime doc collaborators Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert, “Finn’s Girl” reps an intelligent juggling of disparate elements including pubescent unrest ...
My Feminism. A film by Dominique Cardona, 1997, 55 min, Color. MY FEMINISM is a critically important look at second wave feminism in the 1990’s, a time rife with anti-feminist backlash.
1. Finn's Girl (2007) Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance. 5.2. Rate this. With the death of her partner Nancy, Finn must raise their daughter alone while receiving death threats at the abortion clinic Nancy founded. Directors: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert | Stars: Brooke Johnson, Yanna McIntosh, Maya Ritter, Richard Clarkin. Votes: 276.
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Production company: Cardona-Colbert Productions Distributor: Peccadillo Pictures
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The film’s directors, Dominique Cardona (l) and Laurie Colbert, have been life partners for twenty-five years. The film’s directors, Dominique Cardona (l) and ...
