Carsten Knox

“People still come up to me and say, “When is it going to play?’ So, that’s good…I’ll get the word out.” Wanda Taylor has just heard that Poor Boy’s Game, directed by Clement Virgo and co-written by Chaz Thorne, the toast of this year’s Atlantic Film Festival, is opening November 9. A journalism student at […]

What a time it’s been for the Nova Scotia film industry. On September 13, at the Atlantic Film Festival opening gala screening of Shake Hands With The Devil, premier Rodney MacDonald announced an increase in the provincial tax credit for filming in Nova Scotia, from 35 percent to 50 percent (60 for rural productions and […]

“Desperately disappointing” is how Peter Greenaway was describing the contemporary corpse of film to a luncheon audience of Canadian filmmakers, producers, broadcasters, distributors and their international guests. The iconoclastic British director went on to say that the death of cinema really occurred on September 31, 1983, with the invention of the “zapper”—the television remote control—and […]

A wiener dog. Picture, if you will, the furry little face and astonishing joie de vivre. There are few things in life more immediately charming as the inimitable dachshund. And, guess what? People race them. Filmmaker and multiple-cat owner Shane MacDougall knew nothing about the growing sport of wiener dog racing when he had his […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. For the film fan, that is. The 27th edition of the Atlantic Film Festival is almost upon us and its schedule has just been announced. There’s plenty to look forward to: 246 films over 10 days, running from September 13 to 22. For the first time, the […]

“So, ya wanna be in pictures?” You can imagine an agent or a producer, sitting behind a big desk in New York, Los Angeles (or even Toronto, for that matter) asking you the question. You’re young, eager to learn, eager to work, attracted to the glamour of the film business. Maybe it’s not so much […]

“In a way, any small Canadian independent film requires an enormous amount of energy from the director, and I’ve seen that from Atom”—Egoyan—”and Jeremy”—Podeswa”—and Amnon”—Buchbinder—”and every director I’ve worked with over the years. It’s part of how we hustle our films, it’s a very door-to-door salesman sort of job.” Camelia Frieberg is talking about her […]

“We have a love for this magical place… it’s a major blessing.” Steven Brandman is raving, nay, gushing about being in Halifax again. The Emmy Award-nominated producer is preparing to make the fifth edition of the popular series of CBS-TV movies, starring Tom Selleck, about Robert B. Parker’s fictional detective Jesse Stone. This one is […]

From the street, you might not even see it. The anonymous line of semi-detached houses gives no indication of the cinematic venue behind: You need to walk through the “hole in the wall,” a driveway at 2480 Creighton, that leads from the street to the rear. There you’ll see a communal vegetable garden, a few […]