Pretend We’re Kissing is playing in Peterborough thanks to Chad Maker and Kirk Comrie, former residents of the city and founders of A71 Entertainment, Bruce Head reports in kawarthaNOW. The independent Canadian “non romcom”, popular with critics and festival goers, will screen at the Market Hall on Monday, May 11th, at 7:30. A71’s mission is not only to produce quality content, but to “ensure that it is marketed and branded properly.”
Six York University students make up one of the teams competing for the $1 million in funding from CineCoup, The Vaughan Citizen’s Adam Martin-Robbins writes. They’ve made it into the top 30 with their horror film Fantome — voting for the top 15 closes today.
>The Waterwalker Film Festival makes its debut in Thunder Bay on May 22nd, according to The Lake Superior News. Sponsored by the Lakehead Canoe Club, it’s a tribute to the late Bill Mason, “a great conservationist, canoeist and filmmaker.”
Heart to Heart, a documentary following 20 Israeli teens, both Jewish and Palestinian, who spend three weeks learning to live together at Camp Shomria in Perth, Ontario, is the first major independent undertaking for filmmaker Karen Robbins. (“I knew it would just be me,” she tells Barbara Silverstein in The Canadian Jewish News, “so I was going to have to hone my camera skills.” It’s edited by Karen Shopsowitz.
Coming up soon, our choices for the best movies to see — and take your mom to — in Canada this Mother’s Day weekend. And if the two of you go to a Landmark Cinema, she gets in free when you buy your ticket.