Director John Walker discusses why we are attracted to assholes.
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By Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail
John Walker was interviewed for The Globe and Mail’s oral history of Hot Docs.
“The concept evolved out of trying to simply support each other’s work, to exhibit it to the public, to have an awards show. We worked on the premise that Canadian audiences in particular wanted documentaries, and that we were pretty good at making them.” – John Walker
By Marc Glassman, POV Montreal, Issue 73, Spring 2009
The director-cinematographer-writer discusses his innovative doc, “Passage.”
By Marc Glassman, POV Montreal, Issue 72, Winter 2008
Director, cinematographer and writer John Walker—the complete documentarian—talks candidly about his career.
Documentary: Quebec My Country Mon Pays
By Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Filmmaker and former Montrealer John Walker discusses his film, Quebec My Country Mon Pays, and the hundreds of thousands of English Montrealers who reluctantly felt they had to leave Quebec.
Quebec My Country Mon Pays
With Laura Casella, Global News Morning Montreal
Director John Walker joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about his latest movie, Québec My Country Mon Pays.
Listen to an interview with John Walker, the maker of Quebec My Country, Mon Pays which was screened at La Cinematheque Quebecoise de Montreal on Monday, 19th. He discussed his personal history and the Quebec’s Quiet Revolution which took place in the 1960’s and unleashed cultural and political changes that lead to the separatist movement and the FLQ crisis.
Quebec My Country Mon Pays paints a conflicted portrait
By Alex Rose, Cult Montreal
John Walker discusses the challenges of telling a personal story, but recognizes how it helped him address a tumultuous period in both his own history and in Canada’s.
Un documentaire sur l’exil des Anglos-Québécois qui ne fait pas l’unanimité
With Stéphan Bureau, Radio-Canada
In Quebec My Country Mon Pays, filmmaker John Walker takes a historical and personal look at the 1960s and 1970s, which saw the birth of the independence movement and Quebec identity affirmation. These movements prompted many Anglo-Quebecers, including the filmmaker’s parents, to leave. According to Patricia Boushel, however, one of the problems with the documentary is that it deals with a reality that is no longer representative of the current situation between anglophones and francophones.
Le cinéaste John Walker se penche avec émotion sur la fracture linguistique au Québec
By Jean Dion, Le Devoir
John Walker discusses his new documentary, Quebec My Country Mons Pays, a lament over his decision to leave his home province of Québec amid the mass migration of several hundred thousand anglophones from the 1960s to the 1990s.