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Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Float Like a Butterfly

Published on September 19, 2018

Receiving some major acknowledgment in the form of the FIPRESCI Prize at TIFF (a Discovery Programme prize), Carmel Winters’ sophomore project comes eight years after she premiered Snap at the 2010 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Set in 60’s countryside Ireland, Float like a Butterfly is an ode to the great heavyweight boxer who coined the phrase, and features the diminutive but nonetheless lioness heart of a young girl protagonist (Hazel Doupe plays Frances) who takes one of the chin because of her setting, sport and being of the gender who aren’t supposed to don boxing gloves.

Carmel Winters, FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Hazel Doupe, FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Film Festivals

Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Float Like a Butterfly