Friday, October 2, 1998 -- North Shore News — 17 Pictures at an exhibition Talking with Vancouver directors Justin MacGregor, Sturla Gunnarsson & Johnathan Tammuz CANADIAN films have the largest showing ever at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival with over 90 films included in the pro- gram. During the opening week I’ve had a chance to speak that a lot of what [ was being taught I would hire people a lot to three local directors with more qualified than me to do, so T dropped out. three very different stories. pe le MV: Then you moved to Vancouver? It’s che stuff that ulcers are made of. oe - JM: I've lived all over. My dad was an actor and my mom Imagine for a moment — two days A was a drama professor, so we've lived in Banff, Calgary, before your first feature film is to be ; \w Medicine Hat, Montreal, Toronto, Stratford... JUSTIN MacGregor's The Vigil will be shown tomorrow at the Paradise Theatre at 4:30 p.m. premiered and it’s not ready?!? MV: Do you think that’s why your first film is a “road” Justin MacGregor: Last night we movie? didn’t think our film was done. G = JM: Oh veah! By the time [ was 15 we had MV: What? . VERI JM: We got called by the Director even — about eight times. of Photography around noon, and he Fim REVIEWS MYV: So you must know some good said reel one wasn’t in syne. But we car games. couldn’t do anything until the evening because the people at JM: Lots of good car games. The F the lab were sleeping, so we had to wait all day. We were like biggest irony is that I: don't drive. I've what can we do, what can we do... we're going to have to never had a licence. [ve spent a lot of show it not in syne. But it turned out it was in syne, they had time fn cars, looking out of windows — I just threaded the projector wrong. Nine hours. We didn’t eat, guess that’s why I put one of the characters we didn’t move, our errand list went from 30 things to po... that doesn’t have much autobiographical background all day we were thinking what would we do? Pantomime? behind the driver’s wheel. Mime? It was like a Godzilla movie, the door would slam and MV: So what is the storyline? then you'd hear the “bang” a minute later. JM: It’s abouz a group of young people who drive from MV: It could have been part of the film. Lethbridge to Seattle for Kurt Cobains vigil. JM: [Nervously laughing] Oh Lord. MV: Where did this idea come from? Is it a true story? MV: So this is your first feature. JM: Hd been away, I'd missed all of the coverage. I found JM: Yeah, bur I’ve done some shorts, experimental learning — out he had died about 10 days afterwards, I was in Indonesia. I curve kind of things. was going through the Hong Kong airport, and I saw this 10 MV: Did you study film? JM: Yeah, I went to Ryerson for two years. 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