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

On The Outskirts, Cinemascope, 2018

The Children - Artist Feature: Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky, Der Greif, 2017

Capturing a Likeness, POV Magazine, 2015

‘Francine’, a Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky film, Stephen Holden, New York Times, 2012 (PDF)

Francine Review, Roger Ebert, 2012

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

Interviews

Cassidy & Shatzky discuss A Man Imagined, CBC Radio, 2025

In Conversation with Stephen Frailey (for The Children), Dear Dave Magazine, 2017

‘A Poem for Fur’ (Animals Under Anaesthesia), Notes From The South, 2016

Melissa Leo, Melanie Shatzky and Brian Cassidy On Blending Documentary With Fiction in ‘Francine,’ and the “Silent Dance” Between Actor and Director, Indiewire, 2012

Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky on Francine, Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2012

Five Questions with The Patron Saints Directors Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky, Filmmaker Magazine, 2011

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