Violation duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli get intense
Violation duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli get intense
The Toronto filmmakers graduate from unnerving shorts to a devastating debut feature By Norman Wilner
Apr 15, 2021
Not a lot of filmmakers have been lucky enough to spend the last year sheltering in place with their principal collaborator. Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli are the exception.
The personal and professional partners’ inventive and unnerving short films Slap Happy, Chubby and Woman In Stall led to last year’s devastating first feature Violation, which stars Sims-Fewer as a woman working her way through trauma as methodically and horribly as possible. They’ve been enduring the pandemic together, shepherding Violation through the mostly virtual festival circuit and trying to figure out their next thing.