It means a lot to me in terms of my own education in movies. And my dream of making films was linked into the festival. So it would be inconceivable not to have the film in this festival. My sense of it is that, if there is anything pure about culture, and specifically Canadian culture, it is the diversity. Khanjian, who started her career as an arts administrator, not an actress, says foreigners are often dismissive of Canadian films because our identity seems so fragmented.
Fragmentation is very much what Canadian identity is about.
That's the wealth, that's the treasure that we have in this culture. It is diverse. It is fragmented. But it is strong. Both Egoyan and Khanjian perfectly represent Canada in another sense, too.