Fire Song – High-school graduate Shane had plans to move out of his small city to Toronto and university. But his sister killed herself, thus making his mother spiral into an uncontrollable depression. Once again,
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Some VIFF Awards, MIBFF Awards, and Cinemagraphs from Flixel
(Via WireService.ca) And the VIFF BC Spotlight and Canadian Images Award winners are: Best BC Film: Fractured Land BC Emerging Filmmaker: The Devout (dir. Connor Gaston) Best Canadian Film: Sleeping Giant Emerging Canadian Director: The
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VIFF (Days 9 to 11) Spotlight/Competition Flicks (and others)
I was a little easier on the screenings this time around because staring at screens and eating movie snacks on a daily basis has really altered me. I also went to a conference as I
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VIFF (Day 8, Part 2): Sound of Trees, Absence, Hadwin’s Judgement
Sound of Trees – Kind of like Sleeping Giant, they both have slightly irrelevant titles, they’re both about teenagers dealing with struggles, and they’re both debuts of some kind for the film directors. This movie
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VIFF (Day 8): Reel Youth
Finally, a little extra time in the day to see a bit of something different. Today was a slight change of pace as I started off by checking out the Reel Youth Film Festival. A film
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Sleeping Giant (Full Review)
I thought I’d get a little more into detail about what happens in Sleeping Giant as it was probably the best movie I’ve seen so far. Like all adolescence-based movies, we start with our protagonist
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