Currently residing in Los Angeles, Yuchi Ma is a female filmmaker from Beijing, China. Her short film Red Threads (我很爱你) won the Grand Jury Award in the Experimental Shorts section at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. This piece captures the experience of a Chinese Parachute Kid living in the United States.
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Canadian Film Fest, an indie-spirited festival dedicated to celebrating Canadian filmmakers and a local favourite, is making its overdue return to in-person screenings, along with a virtual component available throughout Canada, later this month.
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Tom C. Brown‘s beautifully animated short Film, Christopher at Sea, is a nautical thriller that follows Christopher (James Potter) as he embarks on a transatlantic voyage on a cargo ship with the hopes of finding out what attracts so many men to sea, sending him on a journey filled with solitude, fantasy, and obsession.
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Mark Tewarson is a film composer living in Los Angeles. In 2023 his music will be heard on two upcoming films, Assassin (Bruce Willis, Andy Allo) and Iceman (documentary of NBA star George Gervin).
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Writer-director-star Kit Zauhar‘s debut feature Actual People is currently streaming on global streaming platform MUBI. The film focuses on Riley, a young woman in her final week of college who ends up having to confront anxieties about her love life, family, and future.
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The reality that at a certain point in life, a woman must decide to have children or not is not without its pressures. Pressures from family, from partners, from society and from oneself.
In Huesera: The Bone Woman, Michelle Garza Cervera‘s first foray into genre filmmaking, this very pressure takes the shape of a haunting figure. Natalia Solián (Netflix’s Somos) stars as Valeria, a young woman expecting her first child who becomes cursed by this sinister entity.
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Demons are one of the most popular themes in horror films. The premise delivers and when done well, it will deliver serious creeps and honest scares. To change things up a bit in the genre and moving away from the Catholic point of view on demons, The Offering is taking this genre through a Jewish, more specifically a Hasidic lens.
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In the latest from writer/director Hlynur Pálmason, a 19th century Danish priest is assigned the responsibility of the construction of a church in a far off corner of Iceland.
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Written and directed by Julianna Notten her inspiration for Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls was born out of wanting to “create a character who was confident in her sexuality without sensationalizing it, whose problems reached beyond the fact that she was attracted to other girls.”
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As Aquarians, like myself, continue to celebrate on for the next few weeks, I have compiled a few more events to add to your celebrations.
Winter can be a difficult time to get around, however, this lists includes a wide array of events for your enjoyment.
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