IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard worker and often far from home, visiting festivals around the world. In 2013, he died after a short illness. His daughter Mira was left behind with a whole lot of questions, and a box full of videotapes that Wintonick shot for his Utopia project. She resolved to investigate what sort of film he envisaged, and to complete it for him.
Editing
Mira weaving her own documentary into her father's abandoned utopian vision.
Direction
Turning archival excavation into active, painful conversation with the dead.
Director
Mira Burt-Wintonick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Wintonick was a legendary documentary ambassador who helped launch IDFA; his daughter essentially made the festival circuit's most personal home movie.
The 'Utopia' footage reveals Peter filming strangers in airports and hotels—places of transit, never arrival—suggesting his utopia was perpetual departure itself.
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