The opening scene of The Grizzlies is heartwrenching: The transition from hearing the crack of a shotgun reverberate off the wide-open, snow-covered land on-screen to a young white man excitedly remarking at the lack of trees is jarring. Every single shot in Miranda de Pencier’s feature film debut is equally as powerful. It’s based on […]
Canadian Film
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Made-in-Halifax feature Across the Line hits theatres Friday
A million dollar-budget feature film, shot entirely in Nova Scotia, is about to hit Cineplex Theatres. But this cause for celebration is also cause for concern. Opening almost exactly a year after the Stephen McNeil Liberals announced the end of the provincial film tax credit, Across the Line is a bittersweet anniversary marker—a film that […]
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DOCULA documents a bloody business
Peter Wintonick is troubled by the vampire trend in cinema, and he’s not talking about the Twilight series. Wintonick, the Montreal-based filmmaker behind such acclaimed documentaries as Manufacturing Consent, believes bureaucrats in the private and government sectors are guilty of “sucking the lifeblood” out of documentary filmmaking in Canada. Which is why he happily accepted […]