PRESS & MEDIA:

The Huffington Post

"​The Birdwatcher was an incredibly beautiful surprise, in every way. Not only was the acting superb, but the cinematographer and director made sure to have some beautiful sweeping shots that helped bring the movie to life and have it be larger than life. The writing was so eloquent and the characters were full and real. I really cannot say enough about this film."

Cine In Style

"The Birdwatcher, supported by an amazingly talented cast, unfolds a beautiful, moving narrative that is a must see."

FERN TV

"FERNTV selects the other four films to that we feel that will make an impact at the Female Eye Film Festival this year."

The Georgia Straight

"In an industry where women are consistently reduced to empty, one-dimensional figures, where their worth is weighed on how fuckable they look in a pair of heels and just how much skin they’re willing to show alongside their decidedly better-written male counterparts, it’s easy to see why local filmmaker Siobhan Devine is so enamoured of her latest work."

Reel West

"The Birdwatcher unites strong women working in film."

TheWestender

"The Birdwatcher has its origins in loss. Muir was inspired to tell this story after the death of her sister. She was also fascinated by the larger cultural expectations that swirl around motherhood."

The Globe and Mail

"It’s 2015. Why is there still a gender gap in Hollywood?"

The Vancouver Sun

"...We have a female composer, we have a female editor, the producers are all women, and the writer is a woman,” she says. “When you get women actually telling our own stories, it increases the number of women at all levels of filmmaking, which is a good thing..."

Pique

"The Birdwatcher hits close to home for writer-director team." 

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Biz Books Interviews Roslyn Muir

"We all go through loss at some point in our lives and when I lost my sister to cancer it propelled me to write about it. While The Birdwatcher is not a “cancer film”, it’s a fact in the protagonist’s (Saffron) life and there are aspects of my sister in her character. I was also inspired to use the theme of bird watching as I’m captivated by wildlife in the urban setting and can’t seem to get away from it in my work as well."

Roundhouse Radio

Terry David Mulligan interviewed Gabrielle Rose and Camille Sullivan about The Birdwatcher and women in film ‪on Roundhouse Radio.

E Film Critic

"...This film is about the story and the characters so I wanted to shoot in a kind of minimalist way. The director of photography, Peter Woeste, was totally onboard with my plan so we designed the shots to capture the action and highlight the performances rather than highlight the camera work. There are actually some lovely technical shots in the film that compliment some of the more dramatic moments in the story and those were fun to shoot too..."

Whistler Question

"...Her character, Saffron, is equally complex. To prepare for the role Sullivan said she spent time online looking at support groups both for people with cancer and those searching for their birth parents. “I also read more medical stuff to find out physically what would be happening — and I lost a bit of weight,” she said. “I also spoke to a few people. A woman on the crew had that experience — she met her birth mother. She was only on set for one day, so it was serendipitous (that we met)..."

The Georgia Straight

"... and smaller, harder-to-find treasures like the Camille Sullivan/Gabrielle Rose two-hander The Birdwatcher..."