REEL CANADA Blog Archives

Hello again from your friends at REEL CANADA. I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. Mine was certainly uneventful, but whatever. It's been a busy week in the REEL offices. Our LINC event at the TIFF Bell Lightbox theatre is so close we can almost touch it.

In other Canadian film news, Michael McGowan's new film Score: A Hockey Musical opens next Friday. Score was the opening night selection at TIFF this past September and has been gaining buzz in both film and sports circles. Let's all hope the film does better than the Leafs have in recent seasons. Am I right people?! Kidding, I don't know much about hockey. I assume Messier and Gretzky are still playing out in Edmonton.

Make sure you check out the trailer for Score and take a look at what the National Post had to say about this musical adventure on ice.

Michael McGowan is also the director of popular REEL CANADA film selection One Week. If you haven't already, make sure to check out this touching road movie starring Joashua Jackson (Fringe) and featuring a great homegrown sountrack.

Until next week young cinephiles. That's right, we're doing this every week now.

As promised, here's a list of the new films we added to the REEL CANADA catalogue this year. They're also up on our website, so check there for clips and trailers. Soon, we'll be announcing the first of the film selections for our fall events. Stay tuned!

By day, Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson) is a regular guy who works at a construction site, but by night he is Defendor, a costumed crime fighter who keeps Hamilton safe from his arch nemesis, Captain Industry, with inventive weapons like jars of angry hornets, marbles, and a club from World War One. Read More...

Lightbox that is... Read More...

Every time I post on the REEL CANADA blog I feel like I'm starting by saying "I'm sorry it's been so long since I last posted..." Of course, that's because we're all super busy at the REEL CANADA office all the time, and there never seem to be enough hours of the day to do fun stuff like catch you all up on what we're planning.

No more excuses, though! We've hired a new person this year, and between all of us, we're going to keep you updated on all our exciting events a lot more regularly.  Read More...

I'll be the first to admit that we are pretty terrible at regularly updating this blog, but I'm hoping that 2010 (even though we are already 3 months into it) turns into the year that we stop being delinquents and start being regular bloggers. There's always something exciting going on at REEL CANADA that we'd love to share. Unfortunately, we're usually too busy doing the exciting stuff to write about it.

Well, no more! I've got a smart phone and I'm fresh out of excuses.

Right now I'm on a bus headed to Sudbury with my colleague Mark, our Production Manager Maria, our Film Programmer Stacey Donen and our Facilitator, Norma Dell'Agnese. Read More...