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Jean-Philippe Duval Channeled Ingmar Bergman When Directing Canadas 14 Days 12 Nights TheWrap 1/20/2021 © TheWrap "I will tell you a little secret that I have," Jean-Philippe Duval began his confession to TheWraps Steve Pond in discussing the making of Duvals film "14 Days 12 Nights,"  the emotional tale of two women from different cultures who find their lives irrevocably entwined. In the movie, French Canadian Isabelle Brodeur (Anne Dorval)  takes a solo journey to Vietnam, her adopted ...

“Now my guide was not the dialogue, my guide was the character-driven emotions,” the director said. As a veteran documentary filmmaker, Duval also said he brought a lot of documentary techniques to shooting a fictional story. Duval said he felt a deep personal connection to the film’s script, written by Marie Vien, the adoptive mother of two girls, one from China and one from Vietnam. In fact, he was hooked after reading a one-page description of the story. “I would say I am first a fat...

TheWrap magazine: "We lost a lot of cameras (that) flew off into the trees," says co-director Gregory Kershaw

What led you to make a film about this subject? When we began this process in 2013, we never imagined where this journey would take us. We were simply curious to explore the oral history of the coast of Kenya and learn more about Maia’s “Mijikenda” roots (the nine tribes that make up the coast of Kenya.) We had begun researching the story of a female freedom fighter called Mekatilili wa Menza who led an armed uprising against the British in 1913 at the age of 70, and was persecuted as a w...