When the Berlin International Film Festival opens tomorrow, Nova Scotia will be there. Cape Breton writer-director Ashley McKenzie’s new movie, Queens of the Qing Dynasty, is making its world premier at Berlinale 2022, screening several times over the course of the February 10-20 festival. Queens is in BIFF’s “encounters” section, which is “a platform aiming […]
Werewolf
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Stick to your guns, filmmakers
Of all the art forms, film requires the most people and the most money. You can start and end a single day and have a finished song or drawing or painting. But films need many more people and you have to feed those people and if some of them are in unions then you have […]
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Cape Breton feature Werewolf to premiere at TIFF
A feature film by Cape Breton filmmaker Ashley McKenzie, and producer Nelson MacDonald will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the fest announced this morning. Werewolf, is McKenzie’s first feature and was shot entirely in and around New Waterford, the filmmakers’ hometown. MacDonald, Werewolf’s producer says he and McKenzie wanted […]