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Slamdance 2015 Writing Competition Announces Winners

Slamdance 2015 Writing Competition Announces Winners

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Delegation written by Shane Andries has won the 2015 Slamdance Writing Competition Grand Prize. Andries was awarded $7,000 in cash prizes for his feature script at the annual awards ceremony hosted by the Writers Guild of America West on October 7, 2015. The Delegation tells the story of a rookie […]

Calgary 15 – A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY – Gala Series

Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Globe Downstairs A group of teenagers are unable to escape the abandoned school they are exploring and must deal with an angry ghost who has possessed the virgin in the group; a couple deals with the consequences of cutting down a Christmas tree in the […]

TIFF 15 – THE WITCH – Canadian Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 6:15 PM at The Ryerson Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 9:15 PM at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema The astonishing feature debut by director Robert Eggers evokes Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in its tale of a family of settlers in 17th-century New England […]

Ottawa Animation 15 – POS ESO – Featured Competition

The film is also known as Possessed. First Festival Screening – September 17, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at The ByTowne Cinema Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 5:00 at The ByTowne Cinema Trini, the world famous flamenco dancer, has abandoned the stage and is deeply depressed after her bullfighting husband dies. Damian, her […]

TIFF 15 – PORTAL TO HELL!!! – World Premiere

Part of Short Cuts Programme 4 First Festival Screening – September 12, 2015 @ 10:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 6:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre The superintendent hero of this primo slice of Canuxploitation already has enough on his plate, but then some jerks open up […]

TIFF 2015 Midnight Madness Films Revealed!

TIFF 2015 Midnight Madness Films Revealed!

TORONTO — Midnight Madness returns to the Toronto International Film Festival® to satiate late night audiences’ appetites for wild sensory stimulation. The programme will present the best in action, horror, shock and fantasy films from the rabble-rousers of cinema, opening with Jeremy Saulnier’s tense siege shocker Green Room. “Midnight Madness winds up Festival audiences as […]

Sidewalk 15 – FOR A FEW ZOMBIES MORE

Festival Screening August 30, 2015 @ 5:00 PM at Carver Theatre In this sequel to the low-budget zombie comedy *Hide and Creep*, a soldier, a former video store clerk, and a mysterious young woman face threats both macabre and mundane as they travel a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of the scientist who may hold the […]

BACKCOUNTRY Opens August 14 at TIFF

BACKCOUNTRY – D Films Director – Adam MacDonald Cast – Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop, Eric Balfour, Nicholas Campbell Location: TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King St West) BACKCOUNTRY is a tense thriller about a young couple who go camping in the Canadian wilderness. Alex is a seasoned camper while Jenn is… not. After much convincing, she […]

Fantasia 15 – Canadian Premiere – SCHERZO DIABOLICO

First Festival Screening – Thursday, July 30, 2015 @ 7:00 PM J.A. De Seve Theatre Working stiff Aram (WE ARE WHAT WE ARE’s Francisco Barreiro) is miserable at the office and unhappy in his married life. It seems that everything he does ends up reminding him of how little he stands up for himself. At […]

Fantasia 15 – Québec Premiere – CUB

Festival Screening – Tuesday, July 28, 2015 @ 5:15 PM Concordia Hall Theatre Every Scout troop has one: that troubled, unpopular outcast kid who doesn’t fit in, doesn’t act like the rest of the troop, and always gets picked on. Unfortunately for Sam (Maurice Luijten), he’s that kid in this troop, and this camping trip […]