The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2021 - Issue 29

bitefilmreview life, my mind is constantly moving. I am always thinking about what I need to do next. I am constantly hustling and making things happen.” What’s next for these three creatives? Nino has two projects in the pipe- line. One is nearly finished, and they are currently reshooting it, while the second is a feature-length mystery thriller called Who Killed Cooper Dunn? It has been a tremendous passion of Nino as he’s been working on it for seven years. Jake is an executive producer on a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, starring Al Pacino. He is also working with the production company Tiny Apples on various projects that he cannot yet disclose. Patrica has finished her first fea- ture-length movie Montreal Girls, which is currently in post-production. She is also working on the pilot for a TV series for a Canadian LGBT channel funded by the Canadian government and a feature film based on the true- life story of an African refugee in Canada who became a triathlon cham- pion and a documentary called Heaven on Earth. We finished our conversation with Nino giving his reflections of life, fate and destiny on the film and life itself. The director shared that the overar- ching message of the project was that you could get along with anyone as long as you have at least one thing in common. Like Jamar, Amed, and Kevin, who tried to rob the train, they real- ised they are all connected, and the characters’ destinies were changed. “There is no one like me on the face of the earth,” he pointed out. “But at the end of the day, we are all humans, and there is only one race - the human race. Some people get a calling, and they refuse the call of action and never go on the journey,” he added. “And if you don’t complete that, it will always come back to you worse. When it comes to me, I am going to go to the unordinary world where you have to constantly learn new things and figure out how to get things that you want.” Films and shorts like TRIBES help illuminate the human experience, provoke dialogue, and fulfil the need to connect through excellent sto- rytelling from the director and cast alike, and translate it into an authen- tic story on the complicated identities of humanity. “Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in the knowledge of the mind,” Sigmund Freud said, “because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.” I am daring to believe that if Freud were alive today, he would have included poets and writers, filmmak- ers, and actors, as they help elevate human beings in ways that ‘ordinary men’ cannot.