Michael Dowse found his freedom as a broke filmmaker
Q with Tom Power

Michael Dowse found his freedom as a broke filmmaker

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 202623 min
  • Interview
  • Arts & culture
  • About Canada

Back in the ’70s, Canadian stuntman Ken Carter attempted to execute the boldest maneuver of his career: launching a rocket-powered car one mile across the St. Lawrence River from Ontario into New York State. It was a stunt rife with challenges and setbacks. Ken’s story is now the inspiration behind the new film The Stunt Driver, which recently made its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Director Michael Dowse (FUBAR, Goon) joins Tom Power to unpack Ken’s legacy and why he considers this film his “white whale.”

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I was very happy to have been able to do more than one of the ones I had to do. I was very happy to have Shopify since then, and I was very happy to have a big team of tech companies. I was very happy to have a big team like me from India,

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and I really liked it. Very happy. I was very happy to have a big team, so I was very happy to have a big team.

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I was very happy to have a big team, and I was very happy to have Shopify. I was very happy to have Shopify. Shopify is the common one.

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