Interviews – John Walker Productions

Watch: Director John Walker on The AM Show in New Zealand

Ron McDougall — Fri, 31 May 2019 13:49:20 +0000

Director John Walker discusses why we are attracted to assholes.

An oral history of Hot Docs: How the festival went from humble beginnings to industry dominance

Ron McDougall — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:15:25 +0000

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

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The POV Interview: John Walker, Part Two

Ron McDougall — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:31:57 +0000

By Marc Glassman, POV Montreal, Issue 73, Spring 2009

The director-cinematographer-writer discusses his innovative doc, “Passage.”

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The POV Interview: John Walker, Part One

Ron McDougall — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:27:56 +0000

By Marc Glassman, POV Montreal, Issue 72, Winter 2008

Director, cinematographer and writer John Walker—the complete documentarian—talks candidly about his career.

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Interview, RCI

Ron McDougall — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 12:52:06 +0000

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.

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Interview, Global News Morning Montreal

Ron McDougall — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:15:54 +0000

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.

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CKUT 90.3FM – Off the Hour – Interview with John Walker

robbrown — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 03:51:48 +0000

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.

Interview, Cult Montreal

Ron McDougall — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:09:54 +0000

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.

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Interview, Médium large

Ron McDougall — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:12:24 +0000

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.

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Interview, Le Devoir: L’inconfort de la différence

Ron McDougall — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:17:45 +0000

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.

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