October 21st, 10am-11.30am, NIFCO
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With people reaching for their mobile devices or laptops to watch new content, web series are the new calling cards for filmmakers. How do we successfully build audiences for new dramatic series created exclusively for the web?
Presented by Bell Fund
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October 20th, 3pm-4.30pm – NIFCO
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International co-productions open doors to filmmakers wanting to access the new markets, connect with successful storytellers and tap into new funding bodies eager to work with Canadian creators. Learn how to work across borders and build attractive projects to bring international business partnerships.
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October 20, 12.30pm-2pm – The Rocket Room
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Oscar and Academy Award-winning producer/director/writer Brigitte Berman joins us to discuss her prolific career, including her recent feature documentary film The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent. With over 20 years of experience working in the film and television industry, Berman has produced and […]
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October 23rd, 7pm-9pm – LSPU Hall – Buy Tickets
Maudie
DIRECTOR: Aisling Walsh
WRITER: Sherry White
PRODUCER: Mary Sexton
RUNTIME: 90mins
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: With a bravura performance by Sally Hawkins as the titular figure, Maudie is an uncannily brilliant profile of the much-revered folk artist. Nova Scotia-based Maud Lewis famously suffered from crippling arthritis. The loneliness […]
October 23rd, 12pm-2pm – LSPU Hall – Buy Tickets
Window Horses
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Ann Marie Fleming
PRODUCERS: Ann Marie Fleming, Shirley Vercruysse, Michael Fukushima
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Sandra Oh
RUNTIME: 99mins
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: Ann Marie Fleming is a long-time festival darling, having graced our screens with her totally brilliant animated shorts, always first-class executions of illustrative storytelling. Frankly, we have never ever […]
October 22nd, 3pm-4.30pm – LSPU Hall – Buy Tickets
Father’s Day
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Arizona O’Neill
PRODUCER: The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
RUNNTIME: 10min 09sec
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: Austen, a 12-year-old girl, lives with her single mother in Montreal. Throughout the film, Austen examines whether she is exhibiting the negative traits that experts associate with girls from single parent homes. A […]
October 22nd, 9.30-11pm – LSPU Hall – Buy Tickets
The Perfect Family
DIRECTOR: Martine Blue
RUNTIME: 10min 40sec
COUNTRY: Canada/NL
SYNOPSIS: Edda, a parrot-woman hybrid, and former circus performer, struggles to deal with her teenage daughter’s new found embarrassment of her freakish family. The Perfect Family script won the 2014 NL Linda Joy Award.
Hunting Pignut
WARNING: Film includes subject matter […]
October 22nd, 7pm-8.30pm – LSPU Hall – Buy Tickets
January Hymn
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Katherine Canty
PRODUCER: Tanja Harney
RUNTIME: 13min9sec
COUNTRY: Ireland
SYNOPSIS: A reflection on grief, January Hymn sees Clara return home for the first anniversary of her father’s Death.
Malignant
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Andrea Dunne
PRODUCER: Jacqueline Hynes
RUNTIME: 10min 30sec
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: Caroline is desperately seeking Jason’s attention in their relationship when she discovers a […]
October 22nd, 3.30pm-5.30pm – LSPU Hall – Buy Tickets
The Space Between
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Amy Jo Johnson
PRODUCER: Jessica Adams, Amy Jo Johnson
RUNTIME: 1hr 30min
SYNOPSIS: This charming feature comedy is both a debut effort for director Amy Jo Johnson and a world premier. We are especially eager to show the lighter side of romance and parenting, which this […]
October 21st, 9.30pm-11pm – LSPU Hall – Buy Tickets
League of Exotique Dancers
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Rama Rau
PRODUCER: Ed Barreveld
RUNTIME: 90min 14sec
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: In our time, the once noble art of burlesque has given way to the tedious mechanics of pole dancing. League of Exotique Dancers is an enormously entertaining celebration of that art and of the women […]
