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In Darkness
Director Agnieszka Holland has described this as her "third Holocaust movie, and hopefully last. 'Trilogy' sounds good." According to the buzz at the 2011 Telluride Film Festival, she saved the best for last, with this gripping true-life tale of a dozen of Polish Jews who spent 14 months hiding from their hunters in a sewer system, protected by a Polish sewer worker.
Following Telluride, In Darkness had its official World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (see image top right), where the last surviving member of the group, Kristina (Chiger) Keren attended with her family (on stage with director Agnieszka image bottom right). In Darkness has been chosen as Poland’s Official Selection for the 2012 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film. The film will be released in early 2012 by Sony Pictures Classics in the US, Mongrel Media in Canada and worldwide through Beta Cinema.
You can check TIF screening times for In Darkness by visiting the official website for TIF.
Fly Colt Fly
Shooting on the feature documentary, Fly Colt Fly, has begun off the west coast of Washington State and in Vancouver. Fly Colt Fly is the story of teenage outlaw Colton Harris-Moore, who had never even been in a plane before he hot-wired a Cessna and flew over 600 km, finally crashing in a field and vanishing into the wilderness. That was only the beginning...
Directed by the Gray Brothers, Adam and Andrew, the film is a creative point-of-view look at Colton’s life, using brilliant animation and dramatic recreation in this ground-breaking documentary. Distributed in Canada by Maple Pictures and sold to Movie Central and The Movie Network, for completion in 2012
You can visit the Fly Colt Fly blog at behindthefeet.weebly.com
Visit the official website at www.flycoltfly.ca
Oliver Sherman
Oliver Sherman, Ryan Redford’s feature film debut, had a successful run in Canada and has found distribution in over twenty countries around the world through Wide Management of Paris and its innovative program, Eye on Film. In addition it has played at more than 15 festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Montreal Nouveau Film Festival, where it won Best Canadian Film, Cinefest Film Festival where it won Best First Time Feature, and at the Goteborg Film Festival in Sweden, where it was nominated for the Ingmar Bergmann First Feature Award.
Tracing Iris
Tracing Iris, written by Graham Ludlow and Kelly Rowan and directed by John L’Ecuyer, is slated to shoot in Sudbury in October/November 2011. Based on the novel by Genni Gunn, Tracing Iris is an ingenious psychological thriller, placing at its dark centre a flawed but redeemable heroine, Kate Mason, a thirty –something social anthropologist returning to the emotional crime scene she reluctantly calls home.
The Looking Glass
As Hitler’s armies rolled across Europe, one step behind came Nazi art thieves. This movie is about one painting that vanished in those dark days. Every year, young Eve Nathanson takes her 90-year-old grandmother to the Art Gallery for lunch. This time the lunch turns disturbing. The old woman insists that a painting in the gallery is hers. When she tries to touch it, she is wrestled away by guards, collapses and is rushed to hospital. As Eve tries to unravel the mystery of her grandmother’s painting, doors close in her face, things are not what they seem and a burden of terrible secrets is revealed.
Written by Jefferson Lewis, The Looking Glass is now looking for international co-production partners for production in 2012.
Lives Of Our Neighbours
Lives of Our Neighbours is nearing completion with editing and post-production being handled by the Gray Brothers, Adam and Andrew, of Belleville. Final polishing is underway and the final mix and premiere will take place in September.