2024-08-29
47 分钟Director Irene Taylor discusses her new film, I Am: Celine Dion, with fellow Director Ondi Timoner in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, she discusses discovering the purpose of her film as she was making it, Celine’s effort to participate more in the making of the film and being deliberate about how much she wanted to explore Celine’s stardom alongside more sensitive topics in her home life. Screened as part of the DGA’s Documentary Series, the film tells the story of the Canadian singer’s past and present as well as the sacrifices she’s made to continue performing for her beloved fans, all while managing her life-altering illness. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2024/Sept2024/DocSeries_IAMCelineDion-0824
She never wavered.
She never pulled back on her access.
She did say to me early on, she actually said to me before we even started filming, don't ask me permission.
Don't ask me, because if you do, it will break the spell.
Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the director's Guild of America.
In this episode, singer Celine Dion makes plain her raw and honest struggle with stiff person syndrome in director Irene Taylor's documentary, I am Celine Dion, screened as part of the DGA's documentary series.
The film tells the story of the canadian singers past and present, as well as the sacrifices she's made to continue performing for her beloved fans, all while managing her life altering illness.
In addition to I am Celine Dion, Taylor's other directorial credits include the documentary features trees and other entanglements, leave no trace, moonlight, deafness in three movements, and the documentary shorts between sound and silence, open your eyes and the final inch.
Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Taylor spoke with director Andy Timoner about filming I am Celine Dion.
Listen on for their conversation.
All right, so, Carmen, right?
Yeah.
So why Carmen?
To begin, end the film?
Well, I learned that Celine, very early on, was a opera fan, and Maria Kallas has performed numerous pieces that are Celine's favorites.
And she kind of has an obsession with her, which could have been a whole other little short story in this film.
And so.
Yeah, well, and I should say that, you know, I saw this archival footage of her early on before we were done filming, and I saw her performing something that Maria Kalas had made so famous.
And so I talked to her about that particular piece, and that's when I learned how much she listens to her on a regular basis and that she owns some of her jewelry and owns a painting of hers that was in the living room, which was a little outtake I wish I could have included, but, yeah.
Yeah.