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Illusions of Control
Strikingly beautiful, simultaneously heartbreaking. Illusions of Control is a documentary directed and written by Shannon Walsh, that follows women from many different parts of the…
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R2R INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR YOUTH
“Young people are not tuning out. They want to contribute, they want to be engaged, they want to have themselves heard. They just might not know how to do that”
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Canada On Screen At The Cinematheque
In keeping with avant-garde roots, Vancouver’s Cinematheque is host to an ambitious nation-wide project this year: Canada On Screen. It aims at familiarizing Canadians with…
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Cinema Spectacular
Cinema Spectacular‘s founder and executive director Laurel Brown is, among other things, a marine biology enthusiast. That’s not the main gist of our conversation, but…
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Two years ago, local musician Andrew Huculiak set off for Norway to shoot and direct his first feature film, Violent. Why shoot a film in…
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Tito on Ice is a punk-rock political road documentary that follows comic book creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson as they travel throughout former Yugoslavia…
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Prior to Paul Williams: Still Alive, Stephen Kessler had directed two feature-length films (1997’s Vegas Vacation and 2000’s The Independent) and dozens of commercials. The…
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Everybody loves an uplifting rags-to-riches story, where the impossible becomes possible. In the case of Sound City, there are many instances of the staple underdog…
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Cartoon College is not about digital superstars, next-gen ironic animators, or even pop culture web comics. It’s a film about comics. Directors Josh Melrod and…
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Jay Reatard once punched an overzealous kid at a concert in Toronto, but this movie is not about that. Better Than Something: Jay Reatard takes…