Join us for the world premiere screening of this fascinating documentary on the renowned poet and novelist behind The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, followed by an onstage conversation with directors Nancy Lang and Peter Raymont.

MARGARET ATWOOD: A Word after a Word after a Word is Power
Nancy Lang, Peter Raymont
CANADA | 2019 | English
92 minutes
Margaret Atwood is a household name. Millions of readers worldwide know her books cover to cover, but few know the woman behind these stories. For a year, directors Nancy Lang and Peter Raymont and their film crew kept pace with Atwood and her late partner, Graeme Gibson, as they travelled to speaking engagements, spent time with family, and visited the set of The Handmaid’s Tale, the wildly popular TV series adapted from Atwood’s 1985 novel. Her poetry and prose are brought to life through voiceovers from Tatiana Maslany, revealing the personal and societal factors that inform Atwood’s stories. With personal stories shared by friends, family, and Atwood herself, the film also explores her upbringing in the Canadian wilderness and her early years as a poet, and provides a rare glimpse into the writer’s practice as she completes the final chapters of her latest work, The Testaments.


Guest
Nancy Lang
Nancy Lang is a director and writer. She co-directed and co-produced the documentary Where The Universe Sings: The Spiritual Journey of Lawren Harris (06) and co-produced West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson (11), which won the Directors’ Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary. She researched and produced Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven (15), for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editorial Research. Lang is also an artist, and designed and wrote the digital media companions for the films on which she worked. She is the co-director of Margaret Atwood: A Word after a Word after a Word is Power (19).
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Peter Raymont
Peter Raymont is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker, journalist, and writer. He has produced and directed over 100 documentaries, including Where The Universe Sings: The Spiritual Journey of Lawren Harris (06), A Promise to the Dead: Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman (07), the Oscar short-listed Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (09), West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson (11), Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire (14), and Margaret Atwood: A Word after a Word after a Word is Power (19).


Carol Off
Carol Off has worked as an arts reporter and as an international CBC correspondent, covering the Middle East, the Balkans, Afghanistan, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, among other places. She is the bestselling, award-winning author of four books, and she has hosted CBC Radio's As It Happens since 2006.