If you’ve spent any time channel-flipping between CTV, W Network, or perhaps Pluto TV’s All-Christmas movie channel (Yes, it’s a thing!), there’s a good chance you’ve seen some content produced by the Vancouver-based Front Street
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STELLAR Spins Beauty Out of Chaos (VIWFF)
Whether you watch a screen-based apocalypse unfold on a fictional drama or the evening news, the focus usually lands on the picturesque and chaotic destruction that our little monkey brains just can’t look away from.
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TALENT ON TAP: Heyishi Zhang Brings Us a New Season of GAY MEAN GIRLS
It was only near the end of my recent interview with Toronto-based writer/director Heyishi Zhang that I remembered we had spoken before nearly four years ago in the summer of 2019. That interview had been
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TALENT ON TAP: Aaron James Gives Canada Some GUITAR LESSONS
“I’ve always liked community theatre” muses director Aaron James as he chats with me over Zoom from his Calgary office, “I’ve always had this idea where I wondered if we could do that with film”.
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TALENT ON TAP: Ryan Moccasin Brings Us Some FEATHER NEWS
It’s easy to tune out the news these days with the endless parade of violent and shocking stories underscoring the depressing state of the world. It’s therefore no small wonder that many now prefer their
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From Gimli Hospital to Green Fog: In Conversation with GUY MADDIN (Part 2)
In the week since the first part of my interview with Guy Maddin was published, my girlfriend and I have made it our mission to devour nearly every frame of his works that the Cinematheque
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