Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Float Like a Butterfly

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