Festivals: Whistler

We're always on the lookout for any Indigenous genre projects from anywhere around the World, but specifically here in Canada and Turtle Island. When news of a teen sci-fi called Dream Walker from Algonquin filmmaker Sarah Kelley crossed our desk we knew...

This week's movies hit from the slopes of Whistler, BC, site of their sixteenth anual international film festival. A fantastic showcase for American Indies, Canadian premieres and loads of docs, it's kind of a "Sundance North", full of energizing conversations,...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]Walter is a kid who dreams of making it big on the pro-skateboard scene.  When his gold VHS tape of tricks is deemed worthy, he is summoned by The Baron to...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]Alexandre Franchi just might be a genius, and his first feature shows the same lyric creativity and the same commitment to themes of imagination he displayed in his stellar collection of...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel) has a destiny: as the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky, he's going to live his life in parallel to his antecedent's path, up to and including his assassination...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]An unlikely romance blooms between Rennie (Ryan Arnold), a young artist who's scraping by and has hopes of one day making a living off his paintings, and Paige (Jayme Keith), a...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following wrap up of the 2009 Whistler Film Festival.]Whistler itself is a gorgeous destination, world-famous for skiing and mountain biking, and the Whistler Film Festival (WFF) largely concerns itself with discovering new,...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]Based on the play of the same name, High Life is a smart, smart caper flick featuring not-so-bright criminals.  In 1983, finding a weakness in the procedures around the newly prolific...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]B-movie fiends, prepare for a campy dose of low budget splatter.   Lee Gordon Demarbre's Smash Cut is a loving tribute to the 1960s gore cinema of Herschell Gordon Lewis (who makes...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review of Canada's 2009 Oscar submission.]17-year-old Hubert has a love/hate/mostly-hate relationship with his mother.  Compounding the troubles of that fully dysfunctional relationship, he has no real relationship to his father, and...