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NSI alumni films streaming at Gimli Film Festival 2020

Posted: 17 Jul 2020 12:08 PM PDT

Manitoba’s Gimli Film Festival (GFF) kicks off next Tuesday, July 21 and runs to July 26. Films and panels are all presented online in what is described as “the most comprehensive online film festival to ever be offered across Canada.”

On July 22 they launch a free schedule of 23 live broadcast events on the GFF Live Stream. In total, the festival will stream 200 films.

Alumni films playing at the festival include:

Features

Shorts

The Dibaajimowin, Treaty One program features the work of the Indigenous Filmmakers Collective.

Manitoba in shorts competition

Eligible for Manitoba Film & Music’s Best Manitoba Short Film Audience Choice Award.

See the full festival lineup and details on how to buy tickets and passes.

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Peter Genoway’s new thriller The Oak Room premieres at Fantasia

Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:48 AM PDT

The Oak Room, a new feature thriller written by Peter Genoway (NSI Features First), will have it’s world premiere at Fantasia in August.

The film is an adaptation of Peter’s stage play which won first place honours at the Toronto Fringe Festival in the new play contest category and was selected as a Patron’s Pick (Theatre Passe Muraille’s top box office earner).

In the film, during a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night’s events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses and shocking violence. You’re not going to believe what happened at The Oak Room.

The Oak Room is directed by Cody Calahan and stars RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad), Peter Outerbridge (Suicide Squad, V-Wars) and Ari Millen (Orphan Black, I’ll Take Your Dead), with Martin Roach (The Shape of Water, Diary of the Dead, The Expanse), David Ferry (The Boondock Saints, Legion, Hell on Wheels), Nicholas Campbell (Black Mirror, Antiviral, Da Vinci’s Inquest) and Amos Crawley (The Virgin Suicides, Private Eyes).

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