Selected Press
Articles & Reviews
Un Homme Imaginé: La tendress radical…, Le Devoir, 2025 (English PDF)
A Man Imagined, The Globe and Mail, 2024 (PDF)
Concrete Islands: Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s INTERCHANGE, TIFF, 2018 (PDF)
On The Outskirts, Cinemascope, 2018 (PDF)
The Children - Artist Feature: Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky, Der Greif, 2017
Capturing a Likeness, POV Magazine, 2015 (PDF)
‘Francine’, a Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky film, Stephen Holden, New York Times, 2012 (PDF)
Francine Review, Roger Ebert, 2012 (PDF)
Documentary Directors Learn to Make it Up, Wall Street Journal, 2012
The Patron Saints: a doc that paints the tragedy of growing old, The Globe and Mail, 2013
The Patron Saints, Variety, 2011 (PDF)
Interviews
Cassidy & Shatzky discuss A Man Imagined, CBC Radio, 2025 (transcript)
In Conversation with Stephen Frailey (for The Children), Dear Dave Magazine, 2017 (PDF)
‘A Poem for Fur’ (Animals Under Anaesthesia), Notes From The South, 2016 (PDF)
Melissa Leo, Melanie Shatzky and Brian Cassidy On Blending Documentary With Fiction in ‘Francine,’ and the “Silent Dance” Between Actor and Director, Indiewire, 2012 (PDF)
Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky on Francine, Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2012
*additional articles, reviews + interviews here