5-minutes with Hair Maven Yolanda Mercadel
She has worked on some of Hollywood’s biggest films, including: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Planet of the Apes, 12 Years a Slave and Green Book – just to name-drop a few. Fresh off her stint on The Book of Clarence,…Continue reading
WOMEN RISE FOR ALL – TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER
In April 2020, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed launched Women Rise for All to bring together influential women leaders from around the globe to share how their leadership is shaping the COVID-19 response and what…Continue reading
Canada’s Deepa Mehta on Shattering Barriers
Her emotionally resonating films have played at every major film festival in the world, and thanks to an illustrious repertoire, that includes the critically acclaimed Elements Trilogy: Fire, Earth and Water, Deepa Mehta has solidified her position as Canada’s undisputed transnational filmmaker. With over…Continue reading
Fiona Crombie’s Favourite Things
This December marks 2018’s icy-tongued, The Favourite’s, 5th glorious anniversary…how time flies. We thought it would be fun to track Oscar-nominated production designer, Fiona Crombie – fresh from her stint on Emma Stone starrer Cruella – and ask her about a few…Continue reading
Beyond the Ink: The Art and Vision of Anu Priya
Art has the power to make us pause, feel and see the world differently. Anu Priya’s work does just that. Through expressive figures, striking black-ink compositions and thought-provoking imagery, she explores the complexities of human emotion and the…Continue reading
Oscar-nominated Anastasia Masaro on the Art and Craft of Production Design
What can you tell iAWW about your childhood? I was born and raised in the suburbs of Toronto in an entirely Italian neighborhood. My father’s parents immigrated to Canada when he was a teenager. He later met my…Continue reading
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad: ‘We must support efforts to focus on humanity, and overcome political and cultural divisions’
32-year-old Nadia Murad has been advocating on behalf of the Yazidi community and survivors of genocide ever since she escaped ISIS captivity in 2014. At 19, Murad’s peaceful existence was shattered when Jihadists attacked her village, slaughtering hundreds of people (including 20 members of…Continue reading
Yalitza Aparicio: ‘Social class, gender, race, skin color, socio-economic background – these things don’t determine who you can get to become’
When it released in 2018, Roma marked director Alfonso Cuarón’s most intimate outing after the cutting-edge Gravity. Conceivably, the neorealist drama’s biggest indulgence was the breakout performance of first-time actress Yalitza Aparicio as Cleo, a housekeeper coping with personal and political…Continue reading
20+ Questions with Wild Wild Country’s Ma Anand Sheela
Love her or hate her, but you can’t ignore Ma Anand Sheela, the star of Netflix’s Searching for Sheela and Wild Country. Ahead of iAWW’S full interview, we tossed twenty-something fun questions Sheela’s way. What is your Star…Continue reading
Academy-Award Nominated Anastasia Masaro on the Art and Craft of Production Design
Production designer Anastasia Masaro has been behind some of the most aesthetically stunning films of the last decade. From director Andy Muschietti's horrorfest Mama, to Jason Reitman’s quirky Tully, and of course, the film for which she was nominated for an academy-award — Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium…Continue reading
