Katherine Jerkovic
Coyote
Canada, 2022, 89 min.
A cook in his heyday, Camilo is now a worn-out fifty-year-old who works for a cleaning company. We can guess a personal failure in the past of this solitary Mexican living in Montreal. However, Camilo wants to get back on track and an opportunity to recover his culinary passion finally presents itself. Everything is in place for this new beginning when Camilo receives a visit from his daughter Tania, with whom he had cut ties because of her drug addiction. She tells him that he is a grandfather and asks him to take care of the child while she undergoes her umpteenth rehab. The arrival of this grandson will upset Camilo’s plans. There will be a new beginning for him, certainly, but not as he imagined it.
Katherine Jerkovic
Born in Canada to a Uruguayan mother and a Croatian-Argentinean father, Katherine Jerkovic grew up in Belgium and Uruguay. At the age of 18, she settled in Montréal and pursued film studies at Concordia University (B.F.A. and Master’s). Since then, she has made several experimental and fiction shorts, before moving on to feature films. Her short films have been screened in numerous contexts, such as the Festival international du film sur l’art de Montréal (FIFA), the Images Media Arts Festival in Toronto, les Instants vidéo de Marseille, the Anthology Film Archive in New York, les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, among others, and were the subject of a retrospective by the Ministry of Culture in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her debut feature film, entitled Roads in February, was released in 2018. It won the Best Canadian First Feature Award at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and the “One to Watch” Award from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle; and was included in the TIFF Canadian Top Ten. Roads in February was theatrically released in Montreal, Toronto and Montevideo. Her second feature film, Coyote, had its world premiere at the 2022 TIFF and went on to win two awards at the Whistler Film Festival (WFF): Best Canadian Feature Film and Best Performance for lead actorJorge Martinez Colorado.
