Curl Power

CURL POWER follows a team of teenage girls as they pursue their unusual dream of becoming Canadian National Curling Champions, and seek out their own paths amid the legacies of their world champion mothers. This intimate and imaginative coming-of-age documentary tells a story of angst and ecstasy, following the funny and tender evolution of five best friends as they reckon with their bodies, minds, and the great unknown.

Josephine Anderson is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker who works across linear and immersive modes to address themes like time, irreverence, yearning, and female experience. Her films are intimate, sensorial, and imaginative. Josephine’s work has been shown at festivals worldwide including Tribeca and IDFA, and has been exhibited by The New Yorker Documentary, CBC, Canada Council for the Arts, and the National Film Board of Canada. She has received two Vimeo Staff Picks. Josephine recently completed her first virtual reality documentary, “Texada,” which world premiered at IDFA (2023). Prior to that, her film “On Falling” premiered at Tribeca Film Festival (2020), in competition for best short documentary, and was later distributed by The New Yorker Documentary and selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick. It won the prizes for Best Documentary Short and Best Editing at Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, Vimeo Staff Pick Award at Mountainfilm, and Best Mountain Culture Film at Whistler Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Short Film at the Directors Guild of Canada Awards. Additional directing titles include Vimeo Staff Pick “Starlight & Other Sounds” (NFB/CBC Gem) and “The Sticking Place,” an interactive web documentary, which was recognized as a Webby Award Honoree, won two Pixel Awards, and was nominated for a Digi Award. She has also directed multiple episodes of the Canadian Screen Award-winning series, Canada’s a Drag (CBC). Josephine is an alumna of Berlinale Talent Campus and the Canadian Film Centre (NFB/CFC Creative Doc Lab). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, and is a graduate of Capilano University’s Documentary program, where she was honoured with the One to Watch alumni award. Josephine is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, and the Documentary Organization of Canada.

• – Hot Docs Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection / World Premiere (Canada)
• – Calgary International Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – Atlantic International Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – Vancouver International Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – Lunenberg Doc Fest 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – Chilliwack Independent Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – Forest City Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection / Best Documentary Feature (Canada)
• – Oakville Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – Windsor International Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – Hamilton Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Canada)
• – Lane Doc Fest 2024 – Official Selection (USA)
• – Lake Placid Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (USA)
• – Zlin International Film Festival for Children & Youth 2024 – Official Selection (Czech Republic)
• – Oulu International Children & Youth Film Festival 2024 – Official Selection (Finland)
• – Kino Athens 2024 – Official Selection (Greece)