Apr 26 - May 1, 2022 in Grande Prairie, AB
May 2-8, 2022 online in Canada
George Lucas in Love is such a wonderful spoof of how the script for Star Wars was created that I included it in our 2008 fest even though it was nine years old at that point. Directed by Joe Nussbaum and produced by Joseph Levy, both USC School of Cinematic Arts graduates, the film was based…
If you’re looking for something completely different from the sentimental sweetness of Valentine’s Day, here’s one of the blackest comedies I’ve ever seen. It’s so dark that I cried the first time I saw it, and yet 2 months later, while I was telling someone about it, I found myself laughing as I told the…
Good music is such an important part of a good film, but when the music exists before the film is shot, does that make it a music video? This was a distinction that one filmmaker made to me when I referred to her submission as a music video. She said that it wasn’t a music…
With Christmas less than a week away, I’d like to share my favorite film from the 289 we’ve screened over the first 5 years of the fest. It’s from Belgium, 14 minutes long, and it was the first Oscar-nominated film that we had as an Official Selection. It was 2008, and the film is Tanghi…
Most people can rattle off a long list of famous actors, a much shorter list of famous directors, but maybe only a few producers.  What does a producer do, particularly when it comes to making films in Canada? Apparently, even producers can have a difficult time answering that question as can be seen in Anneli…
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