The filmmaker Josephine Anderson talks to Joseph Planta about her debut feature documentary Curl Power, screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival this week.

Text of the introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Another great documentary screening this week at the Vancouver International Film Festival is Curl Power. In the film, director Josephine Anderson follows a teenage curling team from Maple Ridge, 4KGirl$. They’re a hardworking group of friends who strive to be curling champions, who are coached by three of their mothers who happen to be former Olympians. In the film, we see them curl, but we also see them grow up, and contend with all those issues that young people have to deal with, self-esteem, body image, anxiety, depression, breakups and all the other transitions that people in high school go through. And as they go through them together curling is both incidental, as well as what keeps them together. The film captures these young women often in vulnerable ways, and through Josephine’s well-placed camera, we see how they grow up throughout the film. The films quiet nature allows the viewer to think about their own formative years and how they’ve been leavened by the friendships formed in those all-too important years. Curl Power is Josephine Anderson’s debut feature. She previously appeared on the program in 2020 when her short On Falling premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. This new film screens 03 October 2024 at 6.00pm and Saturday, 05 October 2024 at 3.45pm at SFU Woodwards. Visit www.viff.org for tickets and information. Please welcome back to the Planta: On the Line program Josephine Anderson; Ms. Anderson, good morning.

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