Humane: Caitlin Cronenbergs debut movie breaks the family mould – National [Video]

Caitlin Cronenberg, daughter of famed Toronto director and progenitor of the body-horror genre David Cronenberg, is joining the family business with the premiere of her feature-length directorial debut, Humane.

Her family’s name may precede her, but Caitlin told Global News that she isn’t worried about trying to fill the big shoes left by her dad, or even her brother, film director Brandon Cronenberg.

Rather, she felt pressure to “work on a project that felt like me, and not to have any external pressure about the kinds of things that I wanted to work on.”

And in Humane, her individualism shines through. This film is a far cry from the aesthetics that filmgoers have come to expect from a Cronenberg film.

“I don’t think it’s a necessarily conscious decision. I think it’s just really who we all are as, as individual artists,” Caitlin said.

Humane is set in a near-future, apocalyptic scenario in which the climate crisis has …