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Globe and Mail call Ashley McKenzie’s Werewolf “one of the all-time-great Canadian first films”

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 11:56 AM PDT

Check out The Globe and Mail’s review of Werewolf from writer/director Ashley McKenzie and producer Nelson MacDonald (both NSI Drama Prize).

In his review Barry Hertz describes the film as “a calling card on par with Atom Egoyan’s Next of Kin, Guy Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Don Owen’s Nobody Waved Good-bye and, more recently, Andrew Cividino’s Sleeping Giant.”

NSI nominated Werewolf (formerly Train Whistle Does Not Blow) for the Telefilm Canada Micro-Budget Production Program in 2015.

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Behind the scenes of In Plainview – a new thriller from Full Swing Productions

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 11:33 AM PDT

Calgary Economic Development recently went behind the scenes of In Plainview, a new crime thriller from NSI Features First grads Matt Watterworth and Scott Westby of Full Swing Productions. Robert Cuffley and Jason Long (also NSI Features First grads) are mentoring the team and assisting with production.

In the film a dirty ex-cop recently sprung from prison seeks vengeance on the former partner who sold him out.

The project was a finalist in the 2016-17 Telefilm Micro-Budget Production Program.

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Entanglement to open Brooklyn Film Fest, June 2

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 10:23 AM PDT

Entanglement, a feature film project developed through Movie Central’s Script to Screen in association with the National Screen Institute, will open Brooklyn Film Festival on June 2.

Entanglement was written by Jason Filiatrault in 2014. Amber Ripley (NSI Drama Prize) is co-producer and Jason James (NSI Totally Television) is the film’s director and co-producer.

The film plays again at the fest on June 7.

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