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Woodstock 15 – THE ADDERALL DIARIES – Narrative Features Program

First Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 10:00 PM at The Woodstock Playhouse Last Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 5:00 PM at The Orpheum Theater Saugerties Adapted from Stephen Elliott’s true crime memoir of the same name, The Adderall Diaries tells the unflinchingly honest story of Elliott (James Franco), a once-successful novelist […]

Woodstock 15 – THE AUTOMATIC HATE – East Coast Premiere

First Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Upstate Films Woodstock Last Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at The Orpheum Theater Saugerties How would you react if you discovered everything you thought you knew about your family turned out not to be so? After an enigmatic visit […]

Busan 15 – ZUBAAN – Opening Night Film

First Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 8:00 PM at The Busan Cinema Center BIFF Theater Second Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 4:30 PM at The Sohyang Theater Centum City Last Festival Screening – October 8, 2015 @ 2:00 PM at The CGV Centum City Starium Zubaan depicts a young man who […]

Vancouver 15 – EADWEARD – BC Spotlight

First Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 1:30 PM at The International Village Last Festival Screening – October 5, 2015 @ 8:45 PM at The Vancouver Playhouse Muybridge, played by Michael Eklund, is an obsessive observer of motion: horses galloping, humans jumping. In the 1880s, he took more than 100,000 photographs as part of […]

Woodstock 15 – REMEMBER – Opening Night Film

Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at The Woodstock Playhouse Remember tells the story of Zev Guttman (Academy Award Winner Christopher Plummer), a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor struggling with Dementia who is living out his final years in a bucolic retirement home. A week following the death of his beloved wife Ruth, he […]

Calgary 15 – BROOKLYN – Headliner Series

Festival Screening – September 30, 2015 @ 7:45 PM at The Globe Downstairs Last Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 9:45 PM at Cineplex Eau Claire Despairingly longing for the only home she has ever known, things begin to turn around for Ellis when she meets Maurizio (Michael Zegen, ADVENTURELAND, FRANCIS HA), a handsome […]

NYFF 2015 – CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR – U.S. Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 30, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Alice Tully Hall Last Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 9:00 PM The Francesca Beale Theater The wondrous new film by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (whose last feature, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, was a Palme d’Or winner and […]

HBO Named the 2016 Company of Distinction

HBO Named the 2016 Company of Distinction

Fresh off the heels of 43 Emmy wins, The Banff World Media Festival is proud to announce that HBO will be honoured as Company of Distinction at the 2016 festival. Network CEO, Richard Plepler, is slated to give a special keynote address to the delegation. The honour of HBO as Company of Distinction further illustrates […]

Vancouver 15 – LOUDER THAN BOMBS – Special Presentation

First Festival Screening – September 28, 2015 @ 3:15 PM at The Centre of Performing Arts Last Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 6:00 PM at The Centre of Performing Arts With characteristic subtlety, Isabelle Huppert plays Isabelle Reed, a renowned war photographer whose chosen vocation often leaves her family feeling neglected. When she […]

Vancouver 15 – NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT – BC Spotlight

First Festival Screening – September 26, 2015 @ 8:30 PM at The Rio Theatre Last Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 4:00 PM at The SFU Woodwards Here’s an interesting premise: Women develop the ability to reproduce asexually. Furthermore, males are no longer being born and have become, unsurprisingly, an endangered species. They’ve disappeared […]