Downloaded Director: Alex Winter In 1998, teenage hacker Shawn Fanning cracked the code that enabled peer-to-peer file sharing online. In 1999, he partnered with his friend and fellow teen Sean Parker (later of Facebook fame) to launch a little service known as Napster. The music-sharing website transformed not only the music industry, but technology asContinue reading “Hot Docs 2013: Downloaded Review (Kirk Haviland)”
Category Archives: Film Festival Coverage
Cineplex’s Great Digital Film Festival Preview (Kirk Haviland)
Cineplex’s Great Digital Film Festival Preview Starting Feb 1, 2013 select Cineplex theaters across Canada will participate in the fourth annual ‘Great Digital Film Festival’. The festival runs from Feb 1 through Feb7 and is dedicated to bringing classic films back to the big screen, and often in digital format for the first time. ThisContinue reading “Cineplex’s Great Digital Film Festival Preview (Kirk Haviland)”
Blood In The Snow Film Festival 2012: Devil’s Night Review (Kirk Haviland)
Blood in the Snow 2012 Devil’s Night (2012) Starring Danielle Harris, Steve Byers, Shawn Roberts, Robbie Amell and Boyd Banks Written and Directed by Christopher Harrison Back in 2007 Director Harrison along with his cast and crew set out to make an indie film that played as a horror homage to the films he grewContinue reading “Blood In The Snow Film Festival 2012: Devil’s Night Review (Kirk Haviland)”
Monsters and Martians Film Festival 2012
I recently caught up with Monsters & Martians International Science Fiction Film Festival director Nadia Sandhu to discuss the upcoming fest – the first of its kind in Canada – and the state of science fiction as we head into another jam packed holiday season at the box office. Monsters and Martians runs at theContinue reading “Monsters and Martians Film Festival 2012”
Blood In The Snow Film Festival 2012: In the House of Flies Review (Kirk Haviland)
Blood In The Snow 2012 In the House of Flies (2012) Starring: Lindsay Smith, Ryan Kotack, Henry Rollins and Ryan Barrett Written by Angus McLellan Directed by Gabriel Carrer Making its World Premiere as part of the Inaugural Fright Nights: Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival this past weekend at Toronto’s Projection Booth EastContinue reading “Blood In The Snow Film Festival 2012: In the House of Flies Review (Kirk Haviland)”
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