The Directors Guild of Canada BC’s strike deadline has now passed. Asked if the guild is on strike, a spokesperson told Deadline that “the answer isn’t as simple” in British Columbia, where in 2008 the BC Labor Board imposed safe harbor agreements upon the industry to provide for labor stability during collective bargaining. In any case, film and TV production continues unabated in the province.
Swiss-Canadian Director Steven Vit Turns the Camera on His Own Family for ‘My Old Man’
13.04.2022 - 14:17 / variety.com
Trinidad Barleycorn His dad, that unknown man: since he was a child, Steven Vit saw only one side of his father’s life. What exactly Rudy Vit did for a living remained a mystery to him. “I grew up in Thun, in a family like many others, with an older brother, a devoted stay-at-home mother, and an often-absent working father,” says Steven.
I had a wonderful childhood, but the day my father told me he was going on his last business trip before he retired, after spending 43 years working for the company Schleuniger, I realized how little I knew about his life away from home.” At the time, Steven was living in Stockholm where he was studying for his master’s degree in film directing, after a bachelor’s degree in Lucerne. With distance, he had started to look at his father from another perspective. “I didn’t know the emotional side of Rudy: what he thinks, how he feels.
He himself didn’t know much about his father. I wanted to break this cycle. I know how fast life goes by.
So I decided now was the time to get to know my dad.” This is the starting point for “My Old Man,” the Swiss-Canadian director’s first feature film, produced by Bern-based Lomotion AG, and selected in international competition at Visions du Réel. “Rudy didn’t get why I wanted to film him. ‘I’m not interesting,’ he said repeatedly.” But as it was about his work, the sales manager agreed.
Steven followed him to Asia and attended his last work meetings. But to tell who his father is, he felt his mother Käthi had to be in the movie. “That’s when I came up with the idea of focusing more on his transition to retirement,” he says.“My Old Man” paints a moving portrait of a man who must accept that he is suddenly not expected anywhere anymore, and that his weekdays
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