The Film Festival

I had a great time at the Ottawa International Film Festival.  This was more or less my first film festival and I had three things showing in it!  It was a great experience and I got to meet a lot of great people and make a lot of new contacts.

So thank you Nina Bains and all those at OIFF for giving me such a great opportunity!

I highly recommend sending your films to festivals.  You can learn a lot being at a festival plus the exposure it gives you.  Oh and the parties are great too!  If you get in one talk to as many of the people and fellow film makers as you can. 

Highlights of the festival included Thirteen Downs, Undercurrents and Marilyn. 

Thirteen Downs stars the great up and coming actress/singer Sophia Radisch.  I’ve had the pleasure to work with Sophia on a couple of projects. One was my aforementioned project Homecoming.  Another was a music video for her song “I can.”  It also played the festival.  If her movie, Thirteen Downs, comes to a festival near you I highly recommend you watch it.

Undercurrents is a thriller about a hitman played by the fantastic Jon Maclaren.  Matt Stefiuck was great in the flick as Jon’s coke sniffing buddy.

And Marilyn was a great bio pick about a robber starring Sancuary’s Ryan Robbins and Smallville’s Alison Mack.  Those two showed that they have some great acting chops!

And now it’s back to work on my next short and high past time I start following it here!