Eleven World Premieres plus $146,500 in cash and prizes to be awarded.
‘Mary Queen of Scots’ and ‘Momentum Generation’ to bookend festival.
Canadian Premieres include ‘On the Basis of Sex’, ‘Stockholm’, and ‘Untogether’. Western Canadian Premieres include ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’, ‘Roma’ and ‘At Eternity’s Gate’
The 18th annual Whistler Film Festival (Wff), November 28 to December 2, selected its opening night film and full program lineup from over 1,000 submissions. Festival goers can look forward to 85 fresh films including 50 features and 35 shorts representing 12 countries. Selections for this year’s festival include leading award season fare, quality Canadian content (69% of the lineup) and more female-directed films than ever before (46% of the lineup).
‘Canada’s coolest film fest’ remains true to its mandate of discovering new talent, with the inclusion of 16 first time feature films, 21 feature films directed by women, and with 64% of its program premiering Canadian features, more than any other international Canadian film festival this year.
‘Mary Queen of Scots’ and ‘Momentum Generation’ to bookend festival.
Canadian Premieres include ‘On the Basis of Sex’, ‘Stockholm’, and ‘Untogether’. Western Canadian Premieres include ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’, ‘Roma’ and ‘At Eternity’s Gate’
The 18th annual Whistler Film Festival (Wff), November 28 to December 2, selected its opening night film and full program lineup from over 1,000 submissions. Festival goers can look forward to 85 fresh films including 50 features and 35 shorts representing 12 countries. Selections for this year’s festival include leading award season fare, quality Canadian content (69% of the lineup) and more female-directed films than ever before (46% of the lineup).
‘Canada’s coolest film fest’ remains true to its mandate of discovering new talent, with the inclusion of 16 first time feature films, 21 feature films directed by women, and with 64% of its program premiering Canadian features, more than any other international Canadian film festival this year.
- 11/20/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Though she directed Family First, a savagely violent crime drama tapped as Canada's contender in the Oscars' best foreign-language film category, Sophie Dupuis insists she doesn't have a cruel bone in her body.
While themes of physical brutality and emotional torment may fill her scripts, "In my real life, I'm so soft and I fear violence. I don't want to have it around me at all. But in my writing, it's there," Dupuis told The Hollywood Reporter.
Family First portrays Jp, a petty Montreal hood played by Jean-Simon Leduc, who is caught between wanting to ...
While themes of physical brutality and emotional torment may fill her scripts, "In my real life, I'm so soft and I fear violence. I don't want to have it around me at all. But in my writing, it's there," Dupuis told The Hollywood Reporter.
Family First portrays Jp, a petty Montreal hood played by Jean-Simon Leduc, who is caught between wanting to ...
- 11/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though she directed Family First, a savagely violent crime drama tapped as Canada's contender in the Oscars' best foreign-language film category, Sophie Dupuis insists she doesn't have a cruel bone in her body.
While themes of physical brutality and emotional torment may fill her scripts, "In my real life, I'm so soft and I fear violence. I don't want to have it around me at all. But in my writing, it's there," Dupuis told The Hollywood Reporter.
Family First portrays Jp, a petty Montreal hood played by Jean-Simon Leduc, who is caught between wanting to ...
While themes of physical brutality and emotional torment may fill her scripts, "In my real life, I'm so soft and I fear violence. I don't want to have it around me at all. But in my writing, it's there," Dupuis told The Hollywood Reporter.
Family First portrays Jp, a petty Montreal hood played by Jean-Simon Leduc, who is caught between wanting to ...
- 11/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
On the way to the grocery store, “Family First” director Sophie Dupuis got a call that made her wish she wasn’t wearing jeggings. Not only was her first feature film Canada’s official entry into the Oscar foreign film race, but she needed to announcement it live within the hour.
“I was sure it wasn’t going to be us,” the Quebec native told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at a Q&A on Tuesday following a screening of the crime drama.
“Family First” is a 90-minute journey into the dysfunctional world of debt collectors, brothers Jp (Jean-Simon Leduc) and 19-year-old Vincent (Theodore Pellerin). While older brother Jp begins to have doubts about helping the cartel collect their money, a group lead by their uncle Dany (Paul Ahmarani), Vincent’s explosive, care-free personality leads him deeper into Dany’s web. Canadian actress Maude Guerin plays the on-again off-again alcoholic mother...
“I was sure it wasn’t going to be us,” the Quebec native told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at a Q&A on Tuesday following a screening of the crime drama.
“Family First” is a 90-minute journey into the dysfunctional world of debt collectors, brothers Jp (Jean-Simon Leduc) and 19-year-old Vincent (Theodore Pellerin). While older brother Jp begins to have doubts about helping the cartel collect their money, a group lead by their uncle Dany (Paul Ahmarani), Vincent’s explosive, care-free personality leads him deeper into Dany’s web. Canadian actress Maude Guerin plays the on-again off-again alcoholic mother...
- 11/14/2018
- by Omar Sanchez
- The Wrap
For countries in the English-speaking world, entries into the foreign-language Oscar race offer a chance to reflect on the complexity of their own cultures or examine their place in the wider world.
After digging into its colonial past last year in Francois Girard’s Quebec-set “Hochelaga, Land of Souls,” Canada enters the Oscar race with Sophie Dupuis’ “Family First.” Set in a gritty working-class neighborhood, Dupuis’ low-budget feature debut is about a Montreal family bound together by a life of crime. Canada, which took home the foreign-language Oscar in 2003 with Denys Arcand’s “The Barbarian Invasions,” has scored four nominations and three shortlist spots in the past 12 years.
Australia landed its first nomination in 2016 with “Tanna,” a Nauvhal-language romance about two young lovers defying local mores that was the first film ever shot on the island of Vanuatu. This year’s submission for the foreign-language race, “Jirga,” follows a former...
After digging into its colonial past last year in Francois Girard’s Quebec-set “Hochelaga, Land of Souls,” Canada enters the Oscar race with Sophie Dupuis’ “Family First.” Set in a gritty working-class neighborhood, Dupuis’ low-budget feature debut is about a Montreal family bound together by a life of crime. Canada, which took home the foreign-language Oscar in 2003 with Denys Arcand’s “The Barbarian Invasions,” has scored four nominations and three shortlist spots in the past 12 years.
Australia landed its first nomination in 2016 with “Tanna,” a Nauvhal-language romance about two young lovers defying local mores that was the first film ever shot on the island of Vanuatu. This year’s submission for the foreign-language race, “Jirga,” follows a former...
- 11/8/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The title spells out the theme in the crime drama “Family First,” and if that weren’t enough, the title itself is inked out in cursive on one of the main character’s forearms, a reminder to everyone about how the priorities of mob-linked siblings must align. Quebecois director Sophie Dupuis’ debut feature, selected as Canada’s Oscar foreign language submission, tries to make a virtue of simplicity, whittling the trials of a conflicted goon down to an 87-minute pressure cooker, driving its reluctant hero into action. Yet Dupuis isn’t exactly the first to tackle a “just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” gangland scenario, and the no-frills storytelling mostly works against her, rendering the film’s Verdun, Montreal, underworld disappointingly nondescript.
In this “Animal Kingdom”-like domestic scenario, the mother (Maude Guérin) is too swamped by alcoholism to run the show, so it...
In this “Animal Kingdom”-like domestic scenario, the mother (Maude Guérin) is too swamped by alcoholism to run the show, so it...
- 11/2/2018
- by Scott Tobias
- Variety Film + TV
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Canada has selected Sophie Dupuis' debut feature, Watch Dog (Chien de garde), for the best foreign-language film Oscar.
Quebec stars Jean-Simon Leduc, Theodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guerin and Paul Ahmarani lead the $1.5 million crime drama's ensemble cast.
Watch Dog follows a young man who lives with his brother, mother and girlfriend in a small apartment in suburban Montreal. Constantly walking a tightrope, he tries to find the right balance between his very needy family, for whom he feels responsible; the collection job he works with his brother; and his involvement in the Montreal drug cartel run by ...
Quebec stars Jean-Simon Leduc, Theodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guerin and Paul Ahmarani lead the $1.5 million crime drama's ensemble cast.
Watch Dog follows a young man who lives with his brother, mother and girlfriend in a small apartment in suburban Montreal. Constantly walking a tightrope, he tries to find the right balance between his very needy family, for whom he feels responsible; the collection job he works with his brother; and his involvement in the Montreal drug cartel run by ...
- 9/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Canada has selected Sophie Dupuis' debut feature, Watch Dog (Chien de garde), for the best foreign-language film Oscar.
Quebec stars Jean-Simon Leduc, Theodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guerin and Paul Ahmarani lead the $1.5 million crime drama's ensemble cast.
Watch Dog follows a young man who lives with his brother, mother and girlfriend in a small apartment in suburban Montreal. Constantly walking a tightrope, he tries to find the right balance between his very needy family, for whom he feels responsible; the collection job he works with his brother; and his involvement in the Montreal drug cartel run by ...
Quebec stars Jean-Simon Leduc, Theodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guerin and Paul Ahmarani lead the $1.5 million crime drama's ensemble cast.
Watch Dog follows a young man who lives with his brother, mother and girlfriend in a small apartment in suburban Montreal. Constantly walking a tightrope, he tries to find the right balance between his very needy family, for whom he feels responsible; the collection job he works with his brother; and his involvement in the Montreal drug cartel run by ...
- 9/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Theodore Pellerin has joined the upcoming YouTube Premium dark comedy series “On Becoming a God in Central Florida,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Set near Orlando in the early 1990s, the show centers on Krystal Gill (Kirsten Dunst), a minimum-wage-earning water park employee who will eventually scheme her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise: the cultish, flag waving, multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme that drove her family to ruin. Pellerin has been cast in the lead role of Cody. YouTube ordered a 10-episode first season back in June, which will begin shooting in New Orleans this October and is slated to debut in 2019.
Pellerin recently won the Revelation of the Year award for best new actor at the Gala Quebec Cinema for his work in the film “Chien de Garde.” Previously, he was named as one of Tiff’s Rising Stars and just wrapped a role in Joel Edgerton’s...
Set near Orlando in the early 1990s, the show centers on Krystal Gill (Kirsten Dunst), a minimum-wage-earning water park employee who will eventually scheme her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise: the cultish, flag waving, multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme that drove her family to ruin. Pellerin has been cast in the lead role of Cody. YouTube ordered a 10-episode first season back in June, which will begin shooting in New Orleans this October and is slated to debut in 2019.
Pellerin recently won the Revelation of the Year award for best new actor at the Gala Quebec Cinema for his work in the film “Chien de Garde.” Previously, he was named as one of Tiff’s Rising Stars and just wrapped a role in Joel Edgerton’s...
- 8/28/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
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