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Making A Short Film

September 8, 2017September 8, 2017Canadian Independent Films, FilmmakersFilmmaker, Short Film

I recently took the plunge and made a short film. It only took one day to film but it was a sixteen hour day. I still feel guilty for making everyone work such a long

Exclusive – Raw

November 21, 2016November 17, 2021Exclusive, Filmmakers, Independent, InterviewDavid I Strasser, Milk, Nikolas Bradfield, Raw

When you think of feature length Indy films, usually film students do not come to mind. However, in the case of the film Raw, they have definitely shattered that glass ceiling. I was very fortunate

News from Newfoundland: Flankers & Riverhead

July 15, 2016July 14, 2016Filmmakerscanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Flankers, Justin Oakey, Newfoundland noir, Riverhead

About a year ago, Newfoundland director Justin Oakey presented his 15-minute film Flankers and immediately charmed the festival circuit audience with a rough, hard-hearted story of feuding fishermen in the rural islands of the North.

Hippypocalypse & the Midnight Grind Series

July 6, 2016July 5, 2016FilmmakersDirector Carlo Schefter, Eugene Scott-Barnard, Hippypocalypse, hippysploitation, Midnight Grind series, PM Pictures, Producer Joe MacKinnon, Ross Kerr-Wilson

1960s exploitation films have been a campy little treasure of underground cinema — and now young Toronto-based filmmakers are bringing them back in all their gore and glory. PM Pictures is Director Carlo Schefter, Producer

Interviewing the Filmmakers – 1 Year Later

July 4, 2016July 4, 2016Filmmakerscanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, filmmakers

When I began interviewing filmmakers one year ago, I had been writing screenplays, attended many pitch-fests, attended many film festivals and been to film school. I really thought I had a pretty good idea of

Beyond National Aboriginal Day

June 22, 2016November 17, 2021FilmmakersAboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, CBC Docs, Danis Goulet, documentary, imagineNATIVE, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, Jeff Barnaby, National Aboriginal Day 2016, Pinnguaq, TIFF, virtual reality, WFF Industry Summit, Whistler Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival (WFF)

National Aboriginal Day 2016 (June 21st) saw announcements of several initiatives that will work to give more of a voice, through film and other media, to the First Nations of this country. CBC Docs (via