I must have been about eight when my parents let me finish a roll of 8mm film in a Meopta camera. Putting my eye to that mysterious little window, felt like dreaming awake. I kept filming long after the roll ran out!

Bruno Lazaro is an award winning, critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker. His feature films have premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, the San Sebastián International Film Festival and received many awards including for “most innovative film language.” He has made narrative, experimental and documentary films that have screened widely including at the Festival international du nouveau cinema (Montreal), L’Alternativa (Barcelona), the International Film Festival Manhattan, the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. His films have been presented in retrospectives at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Cinematheques in Mexico City and Madrid, and the Gijón International Film Festival. He has also taught filmmaking at universities and workshops at film festivals and art centres. He has been a guest programmer and jury member at international film festivals, and at the National Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid.