Geographies of Solitude wins Best Canadian Experimental Documentary!
Geographies of Solitude film won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award at Hot Docs for its experimental portrait of researcher Zoe Lucas and her work on Sable Island and is sponsored by Sundance film Canada.
Geographies of Solitude is a film about an environmentalist (Zoe Lucas) living on Nova Scotia’s Sable Island has won top Canadian honours at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival 2022.
Her Sable Island film, “Geographies of Solitude,” chronicles the life’s work of environmentalist Zoe Lucas, the only full-time inhabitant on Sable Island.
Jacquelyn Mills Filmmaker
Jacquelyn Mills’ GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE, the Atlantic Canada filmmaker offers us an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, an environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote, sliver of land off the coast of Canada where she spends her life collecting, cleaning, and documenting marine litter that washes up on the islands’ shore.
We spoke with Jacquelyn Mills, a Cape Breton filmmaker, to learn more about her intuitive approach in making this film and the different ways she worked with her surroundings — including eco-friendly hand processing techniques like using plant emulsion, exposing parts of the film in moonlight and starlight, and placing specimens from Sable Island on the film stock.
Towards the end of the episode, we speak briefly about her previous film, IN THE WAVES, a touching portrait of the director’s grandmother as she grieves the loss of a sister available to stream on Vimeo.
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