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Alison Rose, owner of Inigo Films.

ALISON ROSE: Experiencing Grace Studio 213


We are always intrigued by the means through which people end up doing what theyre doing. Particularly, when what they do is an artistic pursuit that in most cases puts process over pay cheque. So frequently, people like documentary filmmaker Alison Rose of Inigo Films (Studio 213) can trace the genesis of their creative practice back to experiences from their childhood and gifts of discovery from people in their lives. For Alison, her curiosity was cultivated by her parents who took her and her siblings traveling in Africa, Europe, and Canada before she was ten. She also poured over copies of Time and Newsweek engrossed in stories of current events before she could grasp the impact of the incidents. The journalists inquiring mind was developed in Owen Sound where the local daily newspaper took a chance on inexperienced young writers and made them rural correspondents, covering court and village council meetings in neighbouring towns. In Alisons words, I was soon hooked. Alison studied political science at the University of Toronto and journalism at Ryerson University where she fell in love with images and sound making current affairs documentaries for radio and television. She chose film when she was invited to work with Peter Mettler on his documentary Gambling Gods and LSD. As Alison explains, the film was about the search for 4 transcendence and I found working with Peter was transcendent. It was the most fun Id ever had. He was exploring ideas in a way that I wanted to be able to explore ideas and I decided that I wanted to make personal, point of view films. Alisons most recent documentary Love at the Twilight Motel traces the stories of seven regulars at a rent-bythe-hour hotel in Miami. She said the film allowed her to explore a hidden place that people snuck into, and through that place examine aspects of human nature including need, desire, freedom, and power. It was her first feature-length documentary and it premiered at Hot Docs in 2009. Alison is in awe of the opportunity to be doing the work, especially when that work involves sharing time with extraordinary individuals like those she encountered in Miami. Their stories were unbelievable. Their gift for storytelling, turn of phrase, the way they paused, their choice of words was so fantastic and it was real and alive. I felt like I was experiencing grace. Now Alison is developing a slate of science documentaries. Her first film was about Jesuit Priest Astronomers and the Vatican Observatory so science remains a deep love. Now she is turning her attention to the thing that drives her and drives scientists: human curiosity and the desire to know. www.inigofilms.com

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