The spotlight will be on Alberta’s flourishing film industry this fall when the Calgary International Film Festival returns to screens in theatre and at home
With thriving local production facilities, Alberta films are garnering attention and are well worth the separate category at the festival, says Brenda Lieberman, lead programmer for Calgary Film.
The Calgary International Film Festival runs from Sept. 22 to Oct. 2 and will feature an Alberta Spotlight section with both narrative and documentary features as well as the return of Alberta Spirit Shorts. The five films in Alberta Spotlight and 11 shorts in Alberta Spirits were announced Wednesday.Article content
Dark Nature, an Alberta film by Berkley Brady, will be featured at the Calgary International Film Festival.An all-female cast is in Calgary-based Metis director Berkley Brady’s feature debut Dark Nature. This creepy take about a therapy group on an isolated retreat in the Canadian Rockies features a soundtrack by local band Ghostkeeper.
Insanity, an Alberta film by Wendy Hill-Tout, will be featured at the Calgary International Film Festival.The two documentaries are at either end of the spectrum, from a Filipino drag queen in a small Bible Belt town trying to provide for his family back home to a dark look at mental illness. Calgary director Wendy Hill-Tout’s Insanity is a personal look at how society has transitioned from providing care in asylums to dumping people into the streets and jails.
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