{"id":3070,"date":"2017-08-21T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/08\/21\/b-c-film-is-looking-real-good-in-first-viff-2017-programming-announcement\/"},"modified":"2017-08-21T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:34:53","slug":"b-c-film-is-looking-real-good-in-first-viff-2017-programming-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/08\/21\/b-c-film-is-looking-real-good-in-first-viff-2017-programming-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. film is looking real good in first VIFF 2017 programming announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrian Mack \/ The Georgia Straight<\/em><\/p>\n

The Vancouver International Film Festival revealed 12 titles in its B.C.-based Sea to Sky stream today (August 10)\u2014the first programming announcement for this year\u2019s festival.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty mouthwatering, with a nice mix of new and established talent, some major stars, much timeliness in subject matter, and an admirable bent towards Indigenous issues and representation:<\/p>\n

c’\u0259sna\u0294\u0259m: the city before the city\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Actor Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers\u00a0takes her position behind the camera for this doc about the prehistory of the Lower Mainland, based on the 2015 exhibition mounted by the Musqueam First Nation and UBC Museum of Anthropology.<\/p>\n

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DEAD SHACK<\/strong>\u00a0The disgustingly talented Peter Ricq\u2014probably better known to\u00a0Straight<\/em>\u00a0readers as one half of EDM duo Humans\u2014has finally made the gore-drenched fake \u201880s horror movie he\u2019s been talking about for years (with what sounds like a\u00a0soupcon<\/em>\u00a0of\u00a0National Lampoon\u2019s Vacation<\/em>\u00a0thrown in the mix.)<\/p>\n

ENTANGLEMENT<\/strong>\u00a0 Jason James impressed with his 2013 debut\u00a0That Burning Feeling<\/em>. Looks like he\u2019s still working the comedy-of-discomfort furrow with this latest, but now he\u2019s got Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley<\/em>) to handle 90-minutes or so of escalating humiliation.<\/p>\n

GREGOIRE<\/strong>\u00a0 After knocking it out of the park (or maybe the rink) with his performance in\u00a0Hello Destroyer<\/em>, Jared Abrahamson returns to VIFF in the first of three films this year, with this Fort Mac ensemble piece directed by Cody Bown. Emily Haine and Ben Cotton co-star.<\/p>\n

HOLLOW IN THE LAND<\/strong>\u00a0 Jared Abrahamson\u2019s second feature at this year VIFF sounds like a slice of small-town noir, with a body in a trailer park setting things off for amateur sleuth played by\u00a0Glee<\/em>\u2019s Dianna Agron. The splendidly named Scooter Corkle makes his feature debut as writer-director after lensing 2014\u2019s amiable Vancouver-made splatterfest\u00a0Bloody Knuckles<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Luk’Luk’I\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>While some of us were partying at the 2010 Olympics, it was still dire business as usual for the inhabitants of Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Eastside. That\u2019s the premise of Wayne Wapeemuka\u2019s intriguing debut (he was responsible for 2015\u2019s award-winning short \u201cBalmoral Hotel\u201d), which uses non-actors in key roles. We probably couldn\u2019t improve on the film\u2019s IMDb entry: \u201cLuk’Luk’I<\/em>\u00a0takes us into uncharted territory, falling somewhere between a fiction we need to see and a documentary we wish didn’t have to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

MEET BEAU DICK: MAKER OF MONSTERS\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Sometimes the increasingly insane art market gets it right. Filmmakers LaTiesha Ti’si’tla Fazakas and Natalie Bolla bring us this portrait of Kwakwaka’wakw artist-visonary Beau Dick, who took his activism to the steps of the B.C. legislature while his carvings enjoyed global renown.<\/p>\n

NEVER STEADY, NEVER STILL<\/strong>\u00a0 The much anticipated feature debut by Kathleen Hepburn expands on her award-winning 2015 short. With the oil sands forming the film\u2019s psychic backdrop, great Brit actor Shirley Henderson takes on the lead role of a devoted mother beset by Parkinson\u2019s while dealing with her son\u2019s troubled sexual identity.<\/p>\n

ON PUTIN\u2019S BLACKLIST<\/strong>\u00a0 Director Boris Ivanov takes an \u201cengaging\u201d look at the country\u2014or the oligarch-run gangster state, if you will\u2014that you\u2019re probably most curious about right about now. Timelier than a clock wearing a wristwatch, inside another clock.<\/p>\n

ONCE THERE WAS A WINTER<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0After taking VIFF\u2019s BC Emerging Filmmaker award in 2014 with\u00a0Sitting on the Edge of Marlene<\/em>, writer-director Ana Valine returns with this snowbound thriller about two battling brothers and the innocent woman who comes between them.<\/p>\n

PUBLIC SCHOOLED<\/strong>\u00a0 Judy (Arrested Development<\/em>) Greer, Grace Park, Russell Peters and the great Andrew McNee star in\u00a0Eadweard<\/em>\u00a0director Kyle Rideout\u2019s latest, a comedy about a homeschooled dweeb and a girl with a wooden leg. (But a real foot! Not really.)<\/p>\n

SHUT UP AND SAY SOMETHING<\/strong>\u00a0 A guaranteed festival hit from director Melanie Wood,\u00a0Shut Up and Say Something<\/em>\u00a0goes on an intimate journey with Shane Koyczan to meet the father he never knew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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