REEL CANADA Blog Archives

We began our day for the Picton Film Festival early - I mean really, really early - 4:00am early. But that’s the kind of team we’ve got here at REEL CANADA. No school is too far to bring Canadian films to students across the nation. This morning the students of Prince Edward Collegiate Institute (PECI) viewed Jay Dahl’s hilarious short film, Backjumping, followed by the thoroughly Canadian feature, One Week, by director extraordinaire Michael McGowan.

For those of you who have not seen One Week (tisk tisk), it’s a story about a young man named Ben, played by Canada’s own Joshua Jackson, who discovers he has a very aggressive form of Cancer throughout his body. Read More...

This year’s Hot Docs Festival is closer than you might think. It begins April 28th and runs until May 8th, and it will be jam-packed with screenings, forums, amazing youth programming and a sizeable amount of hobnobbing.

In my excited anticipation, I have decided to dive in a little early and do a bit of a Hot Docs meets REEL CANADA crash course. The list of films that pop up in our catalogue that have screened at Hot Docs is a lengthy one, so I’ll keep things short and sweet and cover just a couple filmmakers at a time…

The first filmmaker on the list is Charles Officer. An incredibly talented man responsible for the exceptional film, Nurse.Fighter.Boy. Read More...