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Lots of films from NSI grads at this year’s Calgary International Film Festival which kicks off next week in Alberta.

• World premiere of NSI Features First-developed SuperGrid (pictured) from writer Todd McCauley and producers Hugh Patterson and Trinni Franke

• Giant Little Ones from writer/director Keith Behrman and exec producer Daniel Bekerman (both NSI Features First)

• Sorry For Your Loss from producers John Barnard, Chris Charney and Kyle Bornais (all NSI Features First)

• At First Light from exec producer Ben Silverman (NSI Features First)

• Bachman from director John Barnard and producers Chris Charney and Kyle Bornais

• The Dark from producer Laura Perlmutter (NSI Drama Prize)

• Boys Like You from director Trevor Anderson (NSI Drama Prize) – screens in music video program Alberta Music Seen

• Woman in Stall from director Dusty Mancinelli (NSI Features First) – screens in shorts program How Soon is Now

• The Healing from director Barb Briggs (TELUS STORYHIVE) – screens in shorts program This Night Has Opened My Eyes

• Here to Stay from director Alex Lazarowich (NSI IndigiDocs) – screens in shorts program This Night Has Opened My Eyes

NSI is hosting a free Behind the Screen information session with NSI Totally Television program manager Joy Loewen on Monday, September 24 at 5:30 p.m at Cineplex Odeon Eau Claire. Registration is required.

The fest runs from September 19 to 30, 2018.

Did we miss your film? Let us know!

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The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) congratulates the team behind SuperGrid on their world premiere at the 2018 Calgary International Film Festival.

SuperGrid was developed through NSI Features First in 2016 by producer Hugh Patterson and writer Todd McCauley. NSI Features First alumna Trinni Franke is also a producer on the film.

“NSI Features First continues to be among the most successful development and mentorship programs for emerging Canadian feature filmmakers,” said John Gill, CEO of NSI. “We’re thrilled with Hugh, Todd and Trinni’s success with SuperGrid and are proud to have been a vital part of the path it took to make this film.”

“It’s exciting to celebrate the premiere of SuperGrid at Calgary and to bring our film to festival audiences,” said Hugh and Todd. “We’re grateful to NSI and to the NSI Features First course and faculty for their belief in our project and support of this process.”

SuperGrid opens in an apocalyptic near-future, where mining conglomerates have turned Canada into a wasteland. A young smuggler is forced to convince his older brother to get back on the “grid” and help him deliver mysterious cargo. En route, they must contend with road pirates, rebel gangs, and each other, in this wildly entertaining ode to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi/action movies of the ’80s.

Production on SuperGrid took place in 2017 in and around Regina, Saskatchewan, where Hugh is based.

The film premieres Friday, September 21 at 9:45 p.m. at Calgary’s Cineplex Odeon Eau Claire. Director Lowell Dean (WolfCop) and Trinni will be in attendance. It plays again on September 23 at 12:30 p.m.

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NSI Features First, in association with Telefilm Canada, provides development training for writer/producer teams looking to produce their first or second feature film with strong commercial appeal.

Over 20 feature films developed through the program have been produced since 1997, most recently: Venus (2017) from Eisha Marjara and Joe Balass, Adventures in Public School (2017) from Josh Epstein and Kyle Rideout and The Sun At Midnight (2016) from Kirsten Carthew.

NSI Features First 2018 is funded by Presenting Sponsor Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Super Channel, Corus Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment; Provincial Sponsor Creative BC through the Daryl Duke and William Vince Scholarship Fund; and Industry Supporters William F. White and Deluxe. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

NSI Features First 2016 was funded by Presenting Sponsor Telefilm Canada; Program Partner The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation; Supporting Sponsors Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment; Provincial Sponsors Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), Innovation PEI and Creative Saskatchewan; and Industry Partner Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

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