CHALK

In the comedic style of The Office and the films of Christopher Guest, CHALK is a spirited portrait of life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession…teaching.

Director Mike Akel provides a rare and realistic teacher’s perspective into the absurd, provocative and occasionally volatile world of public education. In a country where 50% of teachers quit within the first three years, CHALK delivers an enormous dose of heart, hilarity, and hope for America’s most important institution.

DIRECTOR
Mike Akel

ACCLAIM
* Audience Award: Best Feature Comedy, Cinequest Film Festival
* Audience Award & Grand Jury Award, Austin Int’l. Film Fest
* Grand Jury Award, Best Narrative Feature, IFF Boston
* John Cassavetes Award Nominee, 2007 Independent Spirit Awards

PRODUCTION
2006 USA/ 85 min./ Colour/ English/ Comedy

THE BABY FORMULA

Two adventurous women in love are desperate to have their own biological child. They take a chance on an experimental scientific process and make sperm from their own stem cells. Pregnant with humour and unexpected twists, their journey tailspins out of control when their families discover there is no father.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE

DIRECTOR
Alison Reid

FEATURING
Megan Fahlenbock (Resident Evil: Apocalypse), Angela Vint (Lars and the Real Girl)

RELEASE SCHEDULE

*OPENING IN TORONTO THEATRES JUNE 19, 2009*

2009 Film Festivals – Official Screenings:
Rotterdam International Film Festival - January, Netherlands
Mardi Gras Film Festival Sydney - February, Australia
Women In Film Festival - Vancouver March, Canada * Opening Night Film
Melbourne Queer Film Festival - March, Australia
Brisbane Queer Film Festival - March, Australia
Prague International Film Festival Febiofest, March - Czech Republic
Glamfest, Perth Gay & Lesbian FF - April, Australia
International Women’s Film Festival, Seoul - April, Korea
Nashville Film Festival - April, USA * Winner! Best LGBT Film
Miami and Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian FF - April, USA
FairyTales International Gay & Lesbian FF - April, Canada * Opening Night Film
Mix Milano, International Lesbian & Gay FF - June, Italy
Barcelona International Lesbian & Gay FF - October, Spain

2008 Film Festivals – Official Selections:
Montreal World Film Festival - August, Canada *World Premiere
Cinefest, Sudbury - September, Canada
Manheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival - November, Germany *Opening Night Film
Torino International Film Festival - November, Italy
Whistler International Film Festival - December, Canada *Borsos Competition

PRODUCTION
2008 Canada/ 81 min./ English/ Dramatic-comedy

VHS KAHLOUCHA

Great fan of 70s genre movies, Moncef Kahloucha, a house painter, shoots hilarious feature films in VHS with the help of the inhabitants of Kazmet, a poor district of Sousse (Tunisia).
He produces, directs and stars in his films which are an opportunity for the locals to get away from their dull lives and to experience unique moments, from preparation to the screening of the movie in the local café.
Our cameras followed Kahloucha shooting his latest film: “Tarzan of the Arabs.”

DIRECTOR
Néjib Belkadhi

ACCLAIM
* This beloved, audience favourite also captured hearts of critics’ at the 2007 Cannes Market
* Official Selection: 2007 Sundance Film Festival
* Official Selection: 2007 Dubai Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2006 Tunisia/ 80 min./ Colour/ Arabic/ Documentary

CZECH DREAM

Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge campaign for the opening of a new supermarket named Czech Dream. The supermarket however does not exist and is not meant to. Will people believe in it and show up for the grand opening?

DIRECTORS
Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda

ACCLAIM
* Hilarious doc seen at London, Tribeca, True/False, Hong Kong film festivals.

PRODUCTION
2004 Czech Republic/ 90 min./ English Sub-titles/ Colour/ Documentary

DOUBLE DARE

Double Dare is a double-barreled, action-packed documentary about two Hollywood stuntwomen, Jeannie Epper and Zoë Bell. Epper, who refuses to retire at sixty-four, doubled for Wonder Woman in the Seventies, and Bell landed the coveted job doubling Xena at the age of eighteen. With star-studded interviews and rollicking live-action stunt sequences, Double Dare is a candid look at two strong, dedicated women who pursue tough careers in male-dominated Tinseltown.

DIRECTOR
Amanda Micheli

CAST
Starring Zoë Bell (GRINDHOUSE), Jeannie Epper and featuring Lynda Carter, Lucy Lawless, Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino

ACCLAIM
* Official Selection, 2004 Toronto Int’l Film Festival
* Audience Awards for Best Documentary at 2004 AFI and 2004 San Francisco Int’l Film Fest.
*This beloved, audience favourite also captured numerous critics’ 2005 top ten lists and best doc lists

PRODUCTION
2004 USA /81 min./ Colour/ English/ Documentary

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TELL ME CUBA

A Miami based terrorist, a Mafia chauffeur, ambitious members of Congress and a secret negotiator unravel the complexities behind the relationship between Cuba and the United States. Through bombings to political strong-arming, this richly textured documentary reveals how a determined exile community has influenced US foreign policy.

DIRECTOR
Megan Williams

CAST
Narrated by Gina Gershon

ACCLAIM
* Winner! Spirit of the Independent, Ft. Lauderdale Int’l. Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2006 USA/ 85 min./ English/ Colour/ Documentary

WHALEDREAMERS

Over fifteen years in the making, across five continents and oceans, WHALEDREAMERS is a personal odyssey for British filmmaker, Kim Kindersley in his quest to find his spiritual roots, while experiencing the extraordinary connection, both ancient and modern, between humanity and the cetaceans.

DIRECTOR
Kim Kindersley

CAST
Appearances by: Pierce Brosnan, John Hurt, Julian Lennon, and Geoffrey Rush

ACCLAIM
* Winner! Best Film 2007 Monaco International Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2006 Australia/ 90 min./ English/ Colour/ Documentary

VIRGIN

When Jessie finds herself pregnant without any memory of sex and determines that she is carrying the child of God, she disrupts the accepted roles and unquestioned order within her family and her entire small town.

DIRECTOR
Deborah Kampmeier

CAST
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Robin Wight Penn (BREAKING AND ENTERING)

ACCLAIM
* Nominated for Two Independent Spirit Awards
* Jury Award Toronto Female Eye Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2003 USA/ 112 min./ English/ Colour/ Drama

SHARP AS MARBLES

Albert isn’t the brightest bulb on the block, but he’s got his best friends George and Ernie to help him out. The only problem is they’re just as dumb as he is. The trio constantly land way over their heads in a comical tale of the blind leading the blind.

DIRECTOR
John Banovich

CAST
Sean Roberts (Painkiller Jane); Linday Maxwell (GOOD LUCK CHUCK); Samantha Mcleod (SNAKES ON A PLANE)

PRODUCTION
2008 Canada/ 84 min./ English/ Colour/ Comedy

LIVING ‘TIL THE END

Jack Whilton is a buttoned-down estate planner who has been told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday. Instantly, Jack’s life turns upside down and he retreats to the safety of extreme agoraphobia in order to avoid his own death. All he has to do is wait out the year in his apartment-turned-bunker, but then meets the girl down the hall, Audrey, who has a similar problem- she is also dying. While their predicaments are similar, they are not the same and it is that difference which allows Audrey to coax Jack out of his self-imposed bondage.

DIRECTOR
Amanda Goodwin

CAST
Sean Maher (SERENITY), Jaime Ray Newman (Veronica Mars)

ACCLAIM
*In Competition: Sarasota International Film Festival
*In Competition: Hamptons International Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2005 USA/ 87 min./ English/ Colour/ Drama

BROOKLYN LOBSTER

Giorgio’s Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state, the renowned establishment now faces grave financial troubles. The Giorgio family must find a way to hold on to the business or risk losing the cornerstone of their identity.

DIRECTOR
Kevin Jordan

CAST
Danny Aiello (Oscar Nominee: DO THE RIGHT THING), Jane Curtain (Saturday Night Live)

ACCLAIM
*Presented by Martin Scorcese
*Official Selection: 2005 Toronto Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2005 USA/ 90 min./ English/ Colour/ Drama

THE HOUSE

Shattered by the death of his parents and left without money, Joe is forced to drop out of architecture school. Homeless and destitute, he stumbles upon a group of equally broken young bohemian squatters living in a boarded up house. Life’s cruel turns have led them all together, and Joe could be the catalyst to make them see their potential. But, of course, trouble is waiting behind every door in the house.

DIRECTOR
David Krae

CAST
Sarain Boylan (THE BABY FORMULA), Maggie Castle (WEIRDSVILLE), Aaron Poole (ADORATION)

ACCLAIM
*Official Selection: 2006 Canadian Filmmaker Festival

PRODUCTION
2006 Canada/ 113 min./ English/ Colour/ Drama

UGANDA RISING

Every day across Acholi-land something remarkable happens. Against a backdrop of dismal statistics, miniscule opportunity and unpredictable terror, in a part of Uganda forgotten by the world, children who have never known peace, face the day as if to live this way is normal, as if they still believe in the future. These children are the embodiment of resilience and hope. This film is the story of Uganda, her stolen children, and the fight to be free.

DIRECTORS
Jesse James Miller and Pete McCormack

FEATURING
Narrated by Kevin Spacey with commentary from Noam Chomsky, Hon. Lloyd Axworthy and Ugandan Peace Negotiator Betty Bigombe.

ACCLAIM
* Audience Award, 2006 Hot Docs!
* Official Selection, Vancouver Int’l. Film Festival
* Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2006/ Canada 82 min. & 48 min./ Colour/ English/ Documentary

SLEEPING DOGS

Mr. Gloss, a blind and belligerent diabetic, escapes from rehab in an effort to save his dog from euthanasia. The orderly responsible, Thomas Benga, is given a chance to find Gloss and in doing so, save his job. Troubled also with the recent death of his estranged father, Thomas journeys through a day of misadventure; lost in suburbia and becoming entangled in Gloss’s history of dysfunction. Under the sun they struggle together through unfamiliar and hostile territory, navigating finally the distance between what they hope to save, and what they can.

DIRECTOR
Terrance Odette

ACCLAIM
* World Premiere: 2006 Toronto International Film Festival
* Official Selection: 2006 Vancouver International Film Festival
* Official Selection: 2007 Mumbai International Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2006 Canada/ 80 min./ Colour/ English/ Drama

PAULY SHORE IS DEAD

Pauly Shore, one-time MTV personality and faded comic star of SON IN LAW and JURY DUTY, wrote and directed this satire about his own career decline and (fictional) attempt to revive Hollywood’s interest by faking his suicide.

DIRECTOR
Pauly Shore

CAST
Pauly Shore stars with a huge cast of Hollywood cameos including: Pam Anderson, Andy Dick, Snoop Dogg, Ellen DeGeneres, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn, Britney Spears, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn and many more.

ACCLAIM
*Official Selection: 2003 SXSW Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2003 USA/ 82 min./ Colour/ English/ Comedy

PAPER CLIPS

When the students of Tennessee’s Whitwell Middle School began studying the Holocaust as a way to learn about intolerance and diversity, nobody could have predicted the results. In 2001, the Paper Clip Project culminated in a unique memorial that changed the lives of those who created it, as well as touching Holocaust survivors and countless communities.
Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper clips poured in from around the world, 11 million of which are enshrined in an authentic German railcar standing in the schoolyard.

DIRECTORS
Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab

ACCLAIM
* Grossed over $1 million at US Box Office
* One of the Top Five Documentaries of 2004 - The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
* 2004 Palm Springs International Festival Award for Best Overall Film

PRODUCTION
2004 USA/ 82 min./ Colour/ English/ Documentary

MOST LIKELY TO

Apart for 5 years, a group of friends from high school reconnect by throwing a party. A shocking discovery the next morning pits them against each other, tests their friendship and challenges their morality.

DIRECTOR
Matt Austin

CAST
Packed with Canada’s rising young stars including: Jefferson Brown, PJ Lazic, Matthew Lemche, Lenny Panzer, Moti Yona, Marcello Cabezas.

ACCLAIM
*Music by: Holy Fuck!
*Official Selection: 2007 Canadian Filmmakers Festival
*Official Selection: San Francisco Int’l Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2007 Canada/ 74 min./ Colour/ English/ Drama

IMMIGRANT

Told in nine chapters, IMMIGRANT follows two parallel stories about Bosnian immigrants in Canada, in the aftermath of the Bosnian war. The first looks at a relationship between Bojan, a young filmmaker, and his Canadian girlfriend Emily. The second story is about Enko, a lonely widower, whose relentless memories of his previous life in Bosnia make it difficult to commit to the demands of his new life in Canada.

DIRECTOR
Bojan Bodruzic

CAST
Bojan Markovic; Jovan Milojevic; Emily R. Laue

ACCLAIM
*Official Selection: 2006 Calgary Int’l. Film Festival
*Official Selection: 2006 Whistler Int’l. Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2006 Canada/ 101 min./ Colour with B&W/ English/Bosnian/ Drama

GRAVEYARD ALIVE: A ZOMBIE NURSE IN LOVE

Patsy Powers, a lonely and dowdy young nurse is the source of much disdain and ridicule among her prettier, blonder nurse colleagues. But when an unfortunate woodsman-cum-zombie checks into Patsy’s hospital, our ugly duckling heroine is transformed into a flesh-eating sex kitten hottie! With new-found powers and bursting sexuality, Patsy tries to win back her old flame, the suave and handsome Dr. Dox from Goodie Tueschuze, her bitchy archrival. While dealing with her ‘affliction’ Patsy must also learns to accept her new life - a harsher, yet more satisfying, undead reality!

DIRECTOR
Elza Kephart

CAST
Anne Day-Jones (The Day After Tomorrow), Samantha Slan (Plague City: SARS in Toronto)

ACCLAIM
*2004 Slamdance Film Festival **Winner Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography
*2004 Rhode Island Horror Film Festival **Winner Best Film
*2005 Boston Underground Film Festival **Winner Best of the Fest

PRODUCTION
2003 Canada/ 80 min./ English/ Comedy/Horror

THE HAMSTER CAGE

Lucy and Paul return to their childhood home for a celebration dinner when their Uncle Stan shows up with inappropriate gifts for all, and a way-too-young fiancée named Candy. Once the gifts are unwrapped, all Hell breaks loose.

DIRECTOR
Larry Kent

CAST
Alan Scarfe (Andromeda); Carley Pope (FX Network’s, Dirt); Tom Scholte (my man!)

ACCLAIM
*2005 Vancouver Int’l Film Festival
*2005 Montreal Int’l Film Festival
*2006 Fantasporto
*2006 Munich Int’l Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2005 Canada/ 96 min./ Colour/ English/ Dark-comedy

GRIM SWEEPERS

The docu-soap, Grim Sweepers, introduces a new household name in Christian Cadieux, the leader of a group of outcasts who dare to enter those creepy places and wash away bad memories. It takes a special kind of personality to handle the unique variety of contaminating challenges and to lead Canada’s most colorful, quirky and eccentric cleaning staff.

With the stress of growing a revolutionary cleaning business and competition on the rise, there’s never a dull moment for Cadieux and his intriguing cast of characters he counts as friends.

Add to the mix the birth of his twin girls and Christian is thrust into a whole new level of stress as he fights to balance time with his loving family and cleaning up the Grim Reaper’s mess.

PRODUCTION
Produced in association with Jim Mauro and Colin Brunton

STATUS
Pilot Episode completed.

PLAGUES AND PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA

Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea, an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights - located just minutes from urban Southern California.
This award-winning film details the rise and fall of the Salton Sea, from its heyday as the “California Riviera” where boaters and Beach Boys mingled in paradise to its present state as a decaying, forgotten ecological disaster.

DIRECTORS
Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer

CAST
Narrated by John Waters
Music by The Friends of Dean Martinez

ACCLAIM
* Winner of 32 Awards for Best Documentary
* Winner HBO Producer’s Award
* Official Selection: Slamdance Film Festival

PRODUCTION
2004 USA 73/58 min./ Colour/ English/ Documentary

MAPLE FLAVOUR FILMS

In April 2006, the creators of the award-winning Canadian feature film “SIDEKICK” crossed Canada with the one and only print of their film, screening it for Canadians from Halifax to Vancouver. Besides chronicling the ups-and-downs of their coast-to-coast adventure, they also took to the streets to talk to everyday Canadians and film industry professionals about the current state of the Canadian English-language film industry.

DIRECTOR
Michael Sparaga

CAST
Includes on-the-street interviews with Canadian movie-goers and film industry professionals including:
*Michael Kennedy, Exhibitor (Cineplex Ent.)
*Brad Pelman, Distributor (Maple Pictures)
*Anna Stratton, Producer (EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC)
*Louise Archambault, Director (FAMILIA)
*Shauna Macdonald, Actress (SAINT RALPH)
*Bern Euler, Canadian Filmmakers Festival
*Richard Crouse, Film Critic, Author
*Brendon Sawatzky, Producer, Funder (NSI)
*Joel Bakan, Screenwriter, Author (THE CORPORATION)

PRODUCTION
2008 Canada/ 46 min./ Colour/ English/ Documentary

BLACKBALLED: The Bobby Dukes Story

In the heat of the 1993 Hudson Valley Classic, Paintball’s greatest legend, Bobby Dukes, gets caught wiping (cheating) and is banned from the sport. Humiliated and disgraced, Bobby Dukes disappears.
Ten years have passed and an older, wiser Bobby returns to compete in the tournament from which he was banished. Unfortunately, no self-respecting player will step on to the field with him. So Bobby Dukes assembles a team of misfits and sets out to regain his dignity.

DIRECTOR
Brant Sersen

CAST
Rob Corddry (W.), Paul Scheer (Best Week Ever), Rob Riggle (STEP BROTHERS), Ed Helms (The Office), Jack McBrayer (30 Rock), Rob Huebel (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Dannah Feinglass (Mad TV)

ACCLAIM
*Winner! Audience Award: SXSW Film Festival 2004
*Winner! Special Jury Prize: Lake Placid Film Festival 2004
*Winner! Grand Jury Prize: Oxford Film Festival 2004
*Winner! Audience Award: Oxford Film Festival 2004
*Winner! Audience Award: Independent Film Festival of Boston 2005

PRODUCTION
2004 USA/ 91 min./ Colour/ English/ Comedy