As far as internet sensations go, The Flying Man hit the jackpot. A short film uploaded three years ago to the video platform YouTube, Canadian-Brazilian sfx artist Marcus Alqueres’s thriller-sci-fi caught the attention of major
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Days to Remember
19 Days, a short (half-hour) documentary about refugees at at the Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre in Calgary, is streaming free at the NFB site, the ever well-informed Eric Volmers of The Calgary Herald reports. The
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Critical (Review with Video)
Set in a hospital during an unspecified civil disturbance, this 2007 short film explores an issue that’s even more current today — ending the lives of the critically ill. Dr. Maureen Jefferson (BJ Harrison) has
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Survivors Rowe (Review with Trailer)
Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher’s short documentary Survivors Rowe focuses on the man that links the film’s three interviewees: Priest Ralph Rowe. In the 1970s, Rowe came to Angling Lake in Northern Ontario by seaplane to
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Exclusive – Motorcycle Boy Productions Part II
“If you don’t have the stamina to see a film through, then don’t get into the business. You are literally problem solving a thousand times a day. Welcome to showbiz. ” Their genre of choice
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News: 19, 20, Another Step (Video)
Over on Refugees Deeply Asha and Roda Siad bring up the topic of a documentary that discusses the problems and lifestyle of refugees who have migrated to Canada, (via CBC.ca) A Windsor filmmaker in California makes
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