Daniel Garber talks to filmmaker Kevan Funk about Hello Destroyer
Hi, this is Daniel Garber at the Movies for culturalmining.com and CIUT 89.5 FM.
Tyson Burr is a minor league hockey player in Prince George, BC. He’s a rookie at his first job but is already getting a reputation as a destroyer, an enforcer who keeps the other teams’ players at bay. Violence on the ice is strongly encouraged. But when an overzealous fight sends a player to hospital, Tyson falls from hero to zero overnight. He is forced to move back home,
work at manual labour and try to pull what’s left of his life back together in the rise, fall and rise again of a hockey destroyer.
Hello Destroyer is a first feature which premiered at TIFF16 and was chosen as one of Canada’s Top
Ten Films of 2017. It’s a thoughtful and impressionistic examination of violence and self-worth in a distinctly Canadian setting. The film is written and directed by prize-winner Kevan Funk, and opens today in Toronto.
I spoke with Kevan Funk, in studio, about hockey, violence, masculinity, Canadian machismo, Todd Bertuzzi, hockey movies… and more!
culturalmining.com 
[…] (Dunkirk, Killing of a Sacred Deer) is great as a bored art student, and Canadian Jared Abrahamson (Hello Destroyer, Hollow in the Land, Sweet Virginia) who normally plays angry young men is unrecognizeable as the […]
LikeLike
[…] cinematic form, the music videos. This year’s winner is Low by Belle Game. It’s directed by Kevan Funk (Hello Destroyer) and is an exquisitely disturbing short film made in an LA factory producing […]
LikeLike