Under the Weather
Sunday, March 20 / 4:00pm / ByTowne cinema
Untitled (Moiroloi) / Under the Weather / Q&A with William MacGillivray + Terry Greenlaw
Feature presentation \
Under the Weather
2020 / 118 minutes / Canada
Director: William D. MacGillivray
Writer: William D. MacGillivray
Languages: English
family \ home care \ Newfoundland
Based on a true story, acclaimed filmmaker (Governor General Media Arts Award winner and one of the CFI’s ‘Canadian Masters’) William D. MacGillivray’s latest is a moving family drama about life, death, and love. Diagnosed with cancer, forty-year-old Joe leaves his former peripatetic lifestyle in Idaho and returns home to coastal Newfoundland. Welcomed back into his childhood home where his older sister Jenny now lives with husband Phil and teenage daughter Maggie, Joe begins to reconsider the wandering life he has led. As the family tends to Joe’s needs, they grow closer together and Joe himself starts to find new meaning in a life that until now thought he had wasted. Understated and finely observed, MacGillivray’s powerful film is a deeply moving tale of redemption sprinkled with wry humour. In its intimate drama and its poetic use of the rugged Atlantic Ocean coastline of MacGillivray’s native Newfoundland, Under The Weather is a paean to human love, compassion, and hope. IFFO 2022 is proud to present its world premiere on the big screen!
- Tom McSorley
Short film \
Untitled (Moiroloi)
2022 / French with English subtitles
Director: Guillaume Saindon
A Short exercise around the Greek concept of “moiroloi”, or “lament”. Inspired by the work of Japanese experimental videographer Takashi Ito, this film addresses the feelings of loss exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guests \
William MacGillivray
DIRECTOR + WRITER OF Under the Weather
“William D. MacGillivray has been responsible for some of the most singularly resonant, poignant and stylish films made in Canada. His films are those of heart and head, emotionally engaging and deeply thoughtful.” Piers Handling, CEO Toronto International Film Festival
Governor General’s Award winner, William D. MacGillivray studied Fine Art at NSCAD and Concordia and filmmaking at The London Film School. Returning to Canada, he became a force within Canada’s early independent cinema and his films have been invited to festivals around the world, being the subject of retrospectives in both Canada and abroad.
MacGillivray’s features include, STATIONS, LIFE CLASSES, UNDERSTANDING BLISS, THE MAN OF A THOUSAND SONGS, HARD DRIVE etc. In television, MacGillivray co-created, wrote and directed the comedic series, GULLAGES and wrote the award-winning series, STUDIO BLACK!
As UNDER THE WEATHER prepares for release, MacGillivray is editing his feature documentary, SO LONG, BOB (A CAUTIONARY TALE).
Terry Greenlaw
Producer OF Under the Weather
One of the first female independent producers in Atlantic Canada, Terry has been a partner in Nova Scotia based production company Picture Plant
since 1988.
Notable producer credits include the 13-episode dramatic series Gullage’s (CBC); multi-Gemini nominated MOW One Heart Broken Into Song (CBC); feature documentary The Man of a Thousand Songs (Super Channel/CBC, TIFF, Atlantic Film Festival awards for Audience Choice, Outstanding Direction and Best Documentary); indie feature film Hard Drive (Super Channel/Netflix USA) and two seasons of dramatic mini-series Studio Black! (CBC, nominated for a Best Limited Series Canadian Screen Award, winner of NS Screen Award for Best TV Series). Her recent feature films Under the Weather and Dawn, Her Dad & The Tractor are both heading into theatrical release.
Terry is developing several film and television projects through Picture Plant, including co-productions with partners in Halifax, London and Munich along with a slate of debut feature films by Atlantic women filmmakers. Terry’s upcoming Bystanders, a first film by Koumbie is slated for production in 2022.