Episode 552: In The Seats With....Lina Rodriguez and 'So Much Tenderness'

We can never quite know what it's like to walk a mile in someone else's shoes....On this very special episode we are diving into a very personal and very beautiful piece of Canadiana from a filmmaker and friend of the show.  It's time for 'So Much Tenderness'.So Much Tenderness, is a story about a Colombian environmental lawyer who flees her native country after her husband is murdered.  As a refugee forced to start over, Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald) rebuilds her life in Toronto with her daughter (Natalia Aranguren), only to risk losing everything when her traumatic past re-surfaces.While we've seen stories about the immigrant experience before, what writer/director Lina Rodriguez does here is let us simmer and appreciate the quieter moments rather then hit us over the head with any kind of political statements and lets us appreciate the human experience.We had the pleasure of sitting down with Lina to talk about the origins of the story, the personal nature of it all and how it expands to how she shoots the film and so very much more...