{"id":2142,"date":"2011-07-27T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2011-07-27T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:49:19","slug":"local-filmmaker-torn-over-her-directoral-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/07\/27\/local-filmmaker-torn-over-her-directoral-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Filmmaker Torn over her Directoral Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2146\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/archives\/2142\/hiebert-headshot_2011_1-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2146\" title=\"Hiebert headshot_2011_1\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hiebert-headshot_2011_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"649\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>By Dallas Kitchen<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Local  filmmaker Melissa Hiebert will see 16 months of late nights,  stress and rewrites hit the screen when <em>Torn<\/em> premieres at Cinematheque,  on July 28th.\u201cI don\u2019t think there was a moment during production  when I wasn\u2019t stressed. I\u2019m a restless perfectionist,\u201d admitted Hiebert  as we sat in her backyard in the searing heat earlier this week.<em><br \/>\nTorn<\/em> centres on a young woman named Rachel, whose flaws and  insecurity begin to dissolve her life and relationships around her.  Hiebert explains to me that she began writing <em>Torn<\/em> as a modern  adaptation of <em>Beauty and The Beast<\/em>, from the female\u2019s perspective. With  each rewrite she began investing more of her own feelings and thoughts  into the main character of Rachel. Melissa is quick to point out  however, that <em>Torn<\/em> is in no way autobiographical of her own life. \u201c<em>Torn<\/em> is about choice. That internal struggle many of us face everyday. Love  and hate for ourselves. It\u2019s a very intense emotion being torn between  two very grave decisions.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe actual filming took all of two  weeks in the summer of 2010, starting August 1, with the average day  lasting 12 hours. \u201cWe had a super small crew and some of the cast  members helped set up the sets.\u201d she tells me. Keeping with the norm of  an indie production, everyone helped with everything. Being a  completely independent film, funding for <em>Torn<\/em> came directly out of  Hiebert\u2019s pocket which she hopes to recoup some of the cost through  ticket sales for the premiere, as well as DVD sales.<br \/>\nAs we continue to sit in the 35\u00b0C  sun, Melissa offers subtle indicators of her overwhelming and anxious  feelings toward the upcoming premiere and the film\u2019s reception. She runs  a hand through her hair to brush it out of her face and falls back into  the large wicker patio chair before explaining to me what she hopes  viewers will get from the film. \u201cI hope it just gets people thinking. It  really asks a lot more questions than it answers about human  relationships,\u201d she explains. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge story about consequences and  living with those consequences.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Torn<\/em> premieres at Cinematheque on  Thursday July 28 at 7 p.m. and there is a second screening on August 2.  Tickets are still available for second show and can be bought at the door  for $10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dallas Kitchen Local filmmaker Melissa Hiebert will see 16 months of late nights, stress and rewrites hit the screen when Torn premieres at Cinematheque, on July 28th.\u201cI don\u2019t think there was a moment during production when I wasn\u2019t stressed. I\u2019m a restless perfectionist,\u201d admitted Hiebert as we sat in her backyard in the searing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[600,1028],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-melissa-hiebert","tag-torn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}