GPLT’s Movie Series, the winter series of feature films affiliated with the Reel Shorts Film Festival, has saved the best for last as this year’s season ends on Sunday with the Oscar-nominated Canadian drama Monsieur Lazhar. In addition to winning accolades internationally, this heartwarming French-language (English subtitled) PG-rated film won 6 Genie Awards for Best Film,…
Details“We love short shorts.” It was fest team member Adrian Tanasichuk who came up with this catchy theme for our 2012 festival. And it was fest team member, photographer and designer Chris Beauchamp of Beauchamp Creative who came up with the visual concept and poster design. Assisted on the photo shoot by fest team member…
DetailsIf you loved the Oscar-nominated documentary Food Inc which we screened as part of the GPLT Movie Series on Sept. 27, 2009, you will love Pink Ribbons, Inc which is now playing at the Jan Cinema in Grande Prairie. What Food Inc did for food, Pink Ribbons, Inc does for the pink ribbon campaigns that…
DetailsNext up in the GPLT Movie Series, the winter series of feature films affiliated with the Reel Shorts Film Festival, is Le Havre, a PG-rated French-language film (with English subtitles) that blends deadpan, ironic humour with social commentary. Marcel Marx (André Wilms) is an aging bohemian artist who works as a shoeshiner in the French…
DetailsGood 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…
DetailsFor the 13th year, Jodi and Jason Henry of Valhalla Pure Outfitters will be bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to Grande Prairie at 7 pm on Sunday and Monday, January 15-16 at the Douglas J. Cardinal Theatre at Grande Prairie Regional College. Each night has a different line-up of films and it’s…
DetailsNext up in the GPLT Movie Series, the winter series of feature films affiliated with the Reel Shorts Film Festival, is The Whistleblower, a 14A-rated political thriller starring Rachel Weisz as Kathy Bolkovac. Based on the true story of Bolkovac’s experiences as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia, she discovers that her United Nations colleagues are…
DetailsWith 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…
DetailsWith our submission deadline of December 15 less than 2 weeks away, the number of short films I’ve looked at since our last fest has just passed the 500 mark and we’ve received over 100 submissions so far from 26 different countries! As can be seen from these numbers and from reading my Film Selection…
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Next up in the GPLT Movie Series, a winter series of feature films affiliated with the Reel Shorts Film Festival, is Starbuck, a heartwarming comedy from Quebec (French with English subtitles). Screening at 7:00 pm on Sunday, Nov 27 at Second Street Theatre (tickets $10; students $5), it’s a “sparkling crowd-pleaser” (Chris Knight, National Post)…
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