Fest Track On Sirk TV Film Interview: HELLCAT [Fantasia Film Festival 2025 - Montreal, Canada - Virtual] - Part II - video Dailymotion

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Producer/Cinematographer Andrew Duensing, Writer/Director Brock Bodell and Actress Dakota Gorman talk to Fest Track  about perspective and perception in regards to the world premiere of their selection film "Hellcat" playing the Cheval Noir section of the 2025 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec.

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00:00It goes back to actually what

00:28Andrew and Brock would say was about perspective

00:30And perception

00:31How the audience perceives it is much

00:34Different than the perspective of Lena

00:35But Lena is seeing it through a completely

00:38Filtered lens at any given

00:40Point in this as it goes on

00:41Could both of you

00:43All three of you whoever wants to speak about it

00:46Or you can all speak about it and this will be the last question

00:47Talk about perspective and perception

00:49In this movie because

00:52It is all about point of view

00:54But then it's also about as you were saying

00:56Dakota an internal point of view

00:57We get when she's looking up at the moon

00:59She has those flashbacks of those

01:02Moments that make

01:03Her think about where she is

01:05And that's a very specific choice

01:07If you all three can talk about perspective and perception

01:10And it's important here

01:11And then I'll let you go

01:12That's a big one

01:15I'll take perspective

01:17First

01:18Perspective was like the guiding light

01:21To a lot of like behavior

01:23And how we shot it

01:25And just like ultimately

01:27Like the direction of the film

01:29Because if one

01:30It was

01:30We kind of set up

01:31These set of rules

01:32And they weren't

01:32You know

01:33They're pretty clearly defined

01:34It's you know

01:35The audience

01:37Is Lena

01:38So everything that

01:39Lena sees

01:40The audience sees

01:41And everything that happens

01:42Outside of her purview

01:43Is

01:43We're in the dark

01:45You've been attracted

01:52And we even went as far as

01:56Like there were

01:57You know

01:57There was a scene that we shot

01:59Outside of the trailer

02:00Of like people who

02:00Ultimately the people

02:02Were like trying to help her out

02:03And we knew that we were like

02:06Cheating our rule a little bit

02:07But we were like

02:08They just might just have this

02:09Like nice little like

02:10Campy carpenter

02:11Like

02:12Moment of like

02:14Getting us out

02:15This was also in a phase

02:16Where we were like

02:16Is this

02:17Are we in this trailer too much

02:18Like do we need to get outside of it

02:19And then as soon as we shot it

02:21They were fantastic

02:22And I would kind of

02:23Wish they could have been in the film

02:24But it did not make sense

02:25For them to be

02:25Once we broke that perspective

02:27And put it into the film

02:28It was like

02:28Just no way

02:29Like we have to

02:30Why

02:30Why did we even do that

02:31Like we

02:32It has to be

02:33So grounded in our perspective

02:34And then like the thought of

02:35The moment of like

02:37Transitioning to another perspective

02:39Like we wanted that handoff

02:40And the way that that handoff is

02:42Is like

02:42Very specific to the film

02:44And then we're

02:44All of a sudden

02:45We're in another

02:46And then the world

02:47Starts opening up

02:47We're really like

02:48Throughout the entire time

02:50From beginning to end

02:51Like always revealing

02:53Always pulling back

02:54That layer

02:54We never really wanted

02:55To fully

02:56Lay it on you

02:58It was just kind of

02:59Always a layer coming off

03:01And then the world

03:01Starts getting bigger

03:02And then the onion's bigger

03:03And then you're pulling off

03:03Different kinds of

03:04Layers

03:05But yeah

03:07No it was just

03:07Perspective like

03:09Like ultimately

03:10Like Andy said

03:10It was like

03:11Kind of like

03:12The guiding light

03:13Of this film

03:13Logistically

03:14Who are you?

03:21I wish I could tell you

03:23What you want to hear

03:24I think too

03:25We knew

03:25Because of where

03:26You know

03:27Without saying anything

03:27Because of where

03:28The film goes

03:29We knew it was

03:31Really important

03:32To ground the world

03:33As firmly as possible

03:34So that when you get there

03:36It feels earned

03:37You know

03:38And I think for us

03:40Like because

03:41The grounding

03:43Of that perspective

03:43Was so important

03:44Because really

03:46At the heart of the movie

03:47I mean you have characters

03:48Who are asking these questions

03:49About the worlds

03:50They live in

03:50Right

03:51And I think that's why

03:52It was

03:52You know

03:54As the movie

03:55You know

03:56Kind of opens up

03:58And you start to get

03:58A little bit more

03:59You realize

04:00Again like

04:01You have to have

04:02That firm base

04:03For the reality of it

04:04So that everybody else

04:06Can be so confused

04:08And pull the audience

04:09Along with them

04:10So that you have

04:10Like you know

04:11Clive and Lena

04:13Can end up

04:14On the same footing

04:15Right

04:15Like you know

04:16It's not a

04:17It's not your kind of

04:18Traditional

04:18Captive-captor

04:20Relationship

04:22You keep her grounded

04:30And that's why

04:30People feel for her

04:31Even though she's

04:32In this extreme situation

04:34Yeah

04:35I think there's

04:36A lot

04:37You know

04:38We've talked about

04:39This story

04:40From the onset

04:41It has this

04:41Traditional

04:42Damsel distress structure

04:44But what I wanted

04:46To approach

04:47With Lena

04:47As far as her perspective

04:48Is I really dissected it

04:50To be reductive

04:50Into like three pieces

04:52Where when we meet her

04:53She's numbed out

04:55Like in her life

04:56Leading up

04:57Into the moment

04:58Of being captured

04:59She's going through

05:01So much

05:02That she doesn't know

05:02How to cope with

05:03She's just completely

05:04Withdrawn by like

05:05Drinking too much

05:06Which is some of

05:07What we see

05:07In the family photos

05:08She's just totally

05:09Dead inside

05:11I would say

05:11But I can't

05:19And then it's

05:20A breakdown

05:21Of vulnerability

05:22Okay I need to

05:23Embrace

05:24That it is okay

05:25To be sad

05:26And I need to

05:26Open back up

05:27I can't just

05:28Close off

05:29And then it's

05:29The strength

05:30From that

05:30So there

05:31It's showing strength

05:32I think in different

05:33Kinds of ways

05:34Where it's like

05:34I'm not going

05:35To take shit

05:36But being vulnerable

05:37And being strong

05:38Is a different

05:39Kind of version

05:40Of that

05:40And then just

05:42Watching the film

05:43As a whole

05:43I just love

05:44How it's

05:45The

05:46It kind of stands

05:47On building

05:47Perspective

05:48And anticipation

05:49Of something

05:50And then flipping

05:50That on its head

05:52With what we think

05:53Certain characters

05:54Are going to be

05:55Or what their

05:56Involvement is

05:57And then it being

05:57Something else

05:59The points

06:01That on its head

06:02Is an example

06:03I wet

06:05That it being

06:05Involvement is

06:05A very

06:07Partij

06:07Or

06:21Involvement is

06:22A very

06:22The point

06:23Involvement is

06:24A very

06:24God

06:25Does

06:25Come

06:25Involvement is

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