The Blood in the Snow Film Festival (BITS) announced last week a new Horror Development Lab starting in November 2021. The goal of this lab is to facilitate the production of projects by previously underrepresented filmmakers in Canada.
Approximately 12-15 filmmakers and their projects will be selected Canada-wide to be coached by industry leaders from November 18 to 23, 2021.
Did you know that 1 in 7 girls in Canada will leave school this week due to a lack of access to period management products?
Directed by Canadian Screen Award winner Rebecca Snow, and helmed by an almost exclusively female production team, Pandora’s Box: Lifting The Lid on Menstruation locates the global issue of period poverty and menstrual inequality at the intersection of health, economic, social, and even environmental justice
The Cuban is the third feature film from director Sergio Navarretta. It stars the legendary Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr. as Luis Garcia, a man living with Alzheimer’s who forms a connection with Mina, a young woman (Anna Golja), who realizes music triggers Luis’ memories. She uses music to break him out of his episodes of dementia while creating moments of lucidity and joy.
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Filmed on location in Canada’s Northwest Territories (Yellowknife and Dettah) and the desert interior region of British Columbia (the Ashcroft Band Lands, Cache Creek and Kamloops), Red Snow is the story of Dylan, a Gwich’in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, who is caught in an ambush in Panjwayi, Afghanistan. His capture and interrogation by a Taliban Commander release a cache of memories connected to the love and death of his Inuit cousin, Asana, and binds him closer to a Pashtun family as they escape across treacherous landscapes and through a blizzard that becomes their key to survival.
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Nose To Tail is written and directed by Jesse Zigelstein. The film stars Aaron Abrams (Hannibal, Blindspot) as a talented but abrasive chef struggling with his personal demons and the never-ending pressures of running a high-end restaurant. Over the course of one increasingly hectic day and night, Dan must deal with many trials and tribulations in a desperate attempt to beat the odds and save the business he’s sacrificed virtually everything in his life to build.
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Premise: The followup to 2015’s He Never Died, stars Oluniké Adeliyi as the cannibalistic immortal Lacey, who must face her own inner demons while simultaneously finding her next meal.
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The Blood in the Snow (BITS) Film Festival returns to Toronto with six nights of the best horror fare in Canada. BITS has quickly become one of the best genre-featuring film festivals in the city. This year, the lineup includes feature films, shorts, web-series, and the newly added podcast category.
To start my coverage, I give you thoughts on festival opener Puppet Killer.
TIFF always offers a good selection of short films. Realistically, I cannot watch all of them but herein I do share my thoughts on three shorts that truly captured my attention — It’s Nothing, The Physics Of Sorrow, and Now It’s The Time.
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The Canadian Film Fest (CFF) began its 2019 edition this week. This weekend, CFF will present two incredible Homegrown Shorts programmes for the first time. Here, I share with you my thoughts on five of these shorts.
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With an atmosphere that evokes The Handmaid’s Tale and Orwell, Danishka Esterhazy’s Level 16 has attracted major attention at genre showcases throughout North America and Europe. It is a dark tale of teens discovering that their world is something very different than what they thought. The film opens in Toronto on March 15, 2019.
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