TIFF stars to watch: T.O.'s Daniel Cockburn

NAME Daniel Cockburn
FILM You Are Here
ROLE Director
PREVIOUS WORK Director, This Thing Is Bigger Than the Both of Us: These Are Facts

“We’re calling it a meta-detective story,” says Daniel Cockburn, referring to his TIFF- debut effort, You Are Here. “It’s about a woman searching for clues, not to solve a mystery, but to figure out what that mystery is.”

The Canadian film features R.D. Reid, Nadia Litz, Scott Anderson and the great Tracy Wright, who passed away in June.

“There was a real honesty to Tracy,” says Cockburn. “I never felt she was holding anything back. And this resulted in a number of great performances. Even during line readings, she’d recite her part in ways I wasn’t expecting, but in ways that made complete sense. This is what added humanity to her character.”

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