Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Trailer from Benjamin Shapiro on Vimeo.

Films We Like, in proud partnership with the Reel Artists Film Festival, invites you to review the new, visually arresting tribute to celebrated American photographer Gregory Crewdson. A New York Times Critics’ Pick, Ben Shapiro’s Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters will leave you in awe of this artist’s imagination and his ability to capture the underlying drama in everyday American life. The film opens at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema on December 21, 2012.

An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life—moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper and Diane Arbus. Crewdson’s imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape—including his inimitable Six Feet Under ads and Yo La Tengo album art. Shot over a decade with unprecedented access, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters beautifully bares the artist’s process—and it’s as mesmerizing and riveting as the images themselves.

Download Press Kit & High-Resolution Images

Director Ben Shapiro is available for phone interviews.

Tickets are currently available to December and January screenings of Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema and can be purchased online on via the theatre’s website

Tickets will also be obtainable at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema box office.

For further information or to request the link to Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, please contact:
Jasmine Pauk
Films We Like 416-971-9131

Tags: Bloor Cinema, Press Release, Ben Shapiro

Films We Like invites you to view the most delectable, mouth-watering piece of cinematography you’ll experience all year. The film is Paul Lacoste’s most recent documentary, Entre Les Bras (Step Up To The Plate) (2011), which opens at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Vancity Theatre (Vancouver), Mayfair (Ottawa) and Regina Public Library on December 7, 2012.

The film chronicles the turbulent period when French chef Michel Bras, one of the most influential chefs in the world, decides to hand over his renowned 3-Michelin- Star restaurant to his son Sébastien. Having worked with his father for 15 years, Sébastien is ready. But it’s not easy to take over the family business when your father is a master in his field. Filmed in the gorgeous Aubrac region in the South of France, home to the Bras family for generations, Step Up To The Plate offers a rare glimpse into the Bras’ culinary process while capturing one of the most closely watched transitions in haute cuisine.

Watch the trailer!

High-Resolution Images


TORONTO
TIFF/ Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West, Toronto, ON
Tickets available online via the TIFF Website or by calling 416.599.TIFF (Toll Free at 1.888.599.8433).

VANCOUVER
Vancity Theatre
1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC
Tickets available online via the Vancity website.

OTTAWA
Mayfair Theatre
1074 Bank St, Ottawa
Tickets available at the box office.

REGINA
Regina Public Library
Central Library, 2311 12th Avenue, Sask
Tickets available at the box office.

For additional information, please contact:
Jasmine Pauk
416-971-9131
Jasmine@filmswelike.com

Tags: TIFF Bell Lightbox, Regina Public Library, Vancity Theatre, Mayfair Theatre

CHASING ICE
THE AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY
Sundance 2012 / SXSX 2012 / Hot Docs 2012 / Full Frame 2012
from the producers of “The Cove”

Opens in Toronto on Friday, November 9 at TIFF/ Bell Lightbox
Also Opens in Vancouver on Friday, November 16 at the Fifth Avenue Cinema


Films We Like is pleased to announce that award-winning feature documentary Chasing Ice, by Jeff Orlowski will open in theatres in Toronto on November 9th. This follows a screening as the closing night film at Planet in Focus where National Geographic photographer James Balog, the subject of the film, attended and received the festival’s prestigious International Eco Hero Award. Each year, Planet in Focus honours inspiring individuals who have made a difference to the environment, globally and within their communities, through their actions and body of work.


The Film

With the intention to provide empirical evidence of the effects of climate change, award-winning photographer James Balog deploys time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His haunting and breathtaking videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.

Traveling with a team of dedicated adventurers across the Arctic (including Greenland, Iceland, Switzerland, Bolivia, the US and Canada), Balog risks his life in pursuit of the biggest story facing humanity today.


The Filmmakers

Chasing Ice is directed and photographed by award-winning filmmaker Jeff Orlowski. A graduate of Stanford University, Jeff has been working since 2007 with James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey. Chasing Ice co-producers are Paula DuPre' Pesmen, who produced The Cove which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary and Jerry Aronson, who produced The Divided Traiand directed The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg. Writer Mark Monroe, won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) award for Best Documentary in 2010 for his work on The Cove. Film composer J. Ralph is known for his scores that include Academy Award winning films The Cove and Man on a Wire.


James Balog

James Balog is an award winning naturalist photographer and author of several books including Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report, published by National Geographic Books in 2009 and ICE: Portraits of the World’s Vanishing Glaciers to be published Fall 2012. To reveal the impact of climate change, James founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), the most wide-ranging, ground-based, photographic study of glaciers ever conducted.


Press Materials Available On-line

FWL Website/ Official Website
High Rez Images
Press Kit

Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski is available for phone interviews.


Media Contact
Virginia Kelly, Meghan Parnell
V Kelly + Associates

Tags: Press Release

Miguel Gomes’
TABU
Opens in Toronto at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Friday, September 21

“TABU”, the masterful love story by Portugese filmmaker Miguel Gomes opens in Toronto on Friday, September 21 following its North American Premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in the Wavelengths program.

Synopsis
Inspired from the directors own life, and influenced by F. W. Murnau, Tabu is a tale of paradise lost and found. When an elderly neighbour dies, Pilar (Teresa Madruga) reconnects with an old lover. and learns of an episode from her past: a tale of love and crime set in an Africa straight from the world of adventure films. Gomes playfully interprets and rearranges historical events: whilst the first part of his film is in black-and-white and portrays a society wallowing in nostalgia, the second part delivers everything the lovers long for: stirring melodrama, slapstick, and passion.

Tabu won the Alfred Bauer Prize for Artistic Innovation and the FIRPRESCI Jury Prize at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival.

About Miguel Gomes
Former Lisbon film critic, Miguel Gomes directed several award winning short films. THE FACE YOU DESERVE (2004) was his debut feature, followed by the multiple award-winning OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST (2008) presented in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes

About Films We Like
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent and international films in Canada.

Running time: 110 Minutes
Language: Portuguese (with English Sub-titles)

Download press notes and images.

Media Contact: V Kelly &Associates info@vkpr.ca (416) 466-979

Tags: Miguel Gomes, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Press Release

CHASING ICE
Monday, Sep. 24, 07:30pm @ Eau Claire Cineplex - Screen 5

BARBARA
Saturday, Sep. 29, 09:30pm @ Eau Claire Cineplex - Screen 2

LUNARCY!
Monday, Sep. 24, 09:30pm @ Globe Theatre - Downstairs

GRANDMA LO-FI THE BASEMENT TAPES OF SIGRÍÐUR NÍELSDÓTTIR
Sunday, Sep. 23, 05:00pm @ Globe Theatre - Downstairs

Tags: Calgary International Film Festival

TABU
Sep 27 03:30 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #2
Oct 02 01:15 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #7
Oct 04 06:15 pm - Vancity Theatre @ VIFC

BARBARA
Oct 05 09:15 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #3
Oct 11 03:00 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #3

MEKONG HOTEL
Sep 30 09:15 pm - Vancity Theatre @ VIFC
Oct 01 03:45 pm - Vancity Theatre @ VIFC

LUNARCY!
Oct 03 08:45 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #5
Oct 06 03:45 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #2

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
Sep 30 04:20 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #2
Oct 09 09:30 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #1

GRANDMA LO-FI
Oct 08 09:00 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #5
Oct 09 03:00 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #5

THE AMBASSADOR
Sep 27 09:00 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #1
Sep 30 03:30 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #1

THE CAPSULE
Sep 28 09:30 pm - Vancity Theatre @ VIFC
Sep 30 04:15 pm - Vancity Theatre @ VIFC

STEP UP TO THE PLATE
Oct 09 09:15 pm - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #2
Oct 11 10:30 am - Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Theatre #2

Tags: VIFF

Austin's Drafthouse Films, the distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain, has inked a deal with Toronto-based FilmsWeLike, which will become the exclusive distributor of Drafthouse titles in Canada, it was announced Friday.

Read about it here! Hollywood Reporter / Variety / Screen Daily / Playback Online / Yahoo

Tags: Drafthouse, The Ambassador, Bullhead, Klown, Miami Connection, The FP, Wake in Fright, Wrong

BARBARA
Thursday September 13 Ryerson Theatre @ 6:00 PM
Friday September 14 - TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 @ 3:45 PM

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
Monday September 10 @ The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema - 6:00 PM
Tuesday September 11 @ Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 3 - 2:45 PM

THE CAPSULE
Wednesday September 12 @ TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 - 10:00 PM
Thursday September 13 @ TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 - 4:45 PM

LUNARCY!
Saturday September 8 @ Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 10 - 6:30 PM
Thursday September 13 @ Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 2 - 5:00 PM

MEKONG HOTEL
Thursday September 13 @ TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 - 9:30 PM
Saturday September 15 @ Cineplex Yonge & Dundas 9 - 4:00 PM

TABU
Thursday September 6 @ TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 - 6:15 PM
Saturday September 8 @ Jackman Hall (AGO) - 1:00 PM

LEVIATHAN
Wednesday September 12 @ TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 - 7:00 PM
Friday September 14 @ TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 - 3:30 PM

Tags: Showtimes

Theatrical Release follows at TIFF Bell Lightbox Sept. 21

“TABU”, the masterful love story by Portugese filmmaker Miguel Gomes will have its North American Premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in the Wavelengths program.

Synopsis: Inspired from the directors own life, and influenced by F. W. Murnau, Tabu is a tale of paradise lost and found. When an elderly neighbour dies, Pilar (Teresa Madruga) reconnects with an old lover. and learns of an episode from her past: a tale of love and crime set in an Africa straight from the world of adventure films. Gomes playfully interprets and rearranges historical events: whilst the first part of his film is in black-and-white and portrays a society wallowing in nostalgia, the second part delivers everything the lovers long for: stirring melodrama, slapstick, and passion.

Tabu won the Alfred Bauer Prize for Artistic Innovation and the FIRPRESCI Jury Prize at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival.

About Miguel Gomes:
Former Lisbon film critic, Miguel Gomes directed several award winning short films. THE FACE YOU DESERVE (2004) was his debut feature, followed by the multiple award-winning OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST (2008) presented in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes



About Films We Like:
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent and international films in Canada.

Running time: 110 Minutes
Language: Portuguese (with English Sub-titles)
Download press notes and images
Miguuel Gomes will attend TIFF and is available for interviews.

Media Contact: V Kelly &Associates info@vkpr.ca (416) 466-979

Tabu trailer from Sydney Film Festival on Vimeo.

Tags: Miguel Gomes, Toronto International Film Festival , TIFF Bell Lightbox

July 31. 2012 – Citizen Jones and filmswelike are pleased to announce today that Lunarcy!, a film by Simon Ennis, will have its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

With wry humor and affection, Lunarcy! tells the story of a disparate group of dreamers and schemers and who share one thing in common, they’ve all devoted their lives to the Moon. From the former ventriloquist who’s made millions selling Moon lots, to the young man who’s resolved to leave for Luna (permanently), Lunarcy! is a fascinating portrait of passion, obsession and quixotic dreams.

“I am unbelievably excited to be back at TIFF,” says director Ennis. “I’ve been seeing movies at the festival since high school -- before I was legally allowed in! It’s been a huge part of my personal film education and being able to launch my new feature here is an absolute thrill.”

“We discovered some truly unforgettable characters during the making of this film,” adds producer Jonas Bell Pasht, who previously produced Ennis’ feature comedy You Might As Well Live. “And we’re really excited to be bringing them to the big screen.”

To make Lunarcy!, Ennis followed the film’s eccentric subjects around North America as they pursued their various lunar goals; from Moon rituals in Brooklyn to Lunar laser shows in San Antonio, from the world’s largest science fiction convention to a dusty space port in deep in the Mojave Desert. Along the way the film took an unlikely turn as Ennis’ focus began to shift away from the Moon itself and towards each of his subject’s unique, personal, and often hilarious relationship with it. What started out as a movie about the history of the Moon became something much more -- a look at passion, obsession and what makes us human.

Lunarcy! is a Citizen Jones production and a filmswelike release, directed by Simon Ennis and produced by Jonas Bell Pasht. Ron Mann executive produces, as well as Jonah Bekhor from Citizen Jones.

About Simon Ennis: Ennis’ first feature, the dark comedy “You Might As Well Live”, premiered at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival where it won the Dos Equis Most Interesting Film Award. The Globe and Mail called YMAWL “rude and crude but also very funny”, Variety called it “a promising first feature” and Ain’t It Cool News praised it for “making me gut laugh, which most comedies can’t”. His previous comedy shorts, The Waldo Cumberbund Story, The Canadian Shield and Up In Cottage Country all premiered at TIFF.

About Jonas Bell Pasht: Bell Pasht’s producing credits include the upcoming Stage Fright (starring Meat Loaf) for Serendipity Point Films and Ennis’ You Might As Well Live. He is repped by CAA.

About filmswelike: Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, filmswelike is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent and international films in Canada.

To download press notes and images go to: filmswelike.com/films/lunarcy

Running time: 80 Minutes


Media Contact: Virginia Kelly, Meghan Parnell / V Kelly & Associates - info@vkpr.ca, 416-466-9799

Tags: Lunarcy!

Now available on DVD…

Driver X 4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver
DVD box Set (2x DVD)
A Collection of Films by SARA DRIVER
Language: English

Special Feature: Stummer, a vivid document of Joe Strummer composing and recording the musical soundtrack of "When Pigs Fly" in a studio in Rockfield, Wales with Sara Drive and Jim Jarmusch in attendance.

PURCHASE DVD!



Included films...

SLEEPWALK
75 min / 1986 / Colour / 1.85:1 / Mono / English

Shot in the summer of 1985 on location in New York City - 35mm / Colour / 78 min
Sleepwalk is the story of a computer typesetter who is given a manuscript of mysterious Chinese fairy tales to translate and transcribe. Slowly these tales begin to echo themselves in her life and the lives of the people around her and where the magic ends, coincidence takes over. Sleepwalk has the logic and landscape of a dream. An open-ended fairy tale set in the margins of an imaginary New York.


YOU ARE NOT I
48 min / 1981 / B/W / 1.33:1 (4x3) / Mono / English

You Are Not I is a short story by Paul Bowles from his Collected Stories 1939-1976. It is the story of a young woman, Ethel, who escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. A rescue volunteer that finds her trying to place a stone in a dead woman’s mouth mistakes her for a shock victim. The volunteer drives her to her sister’ house. The sister is confused and angered by the sudden arrival of the psychotic Ethel. Not wishing to be alone in the house with her, the sister brings two neighbor women over. Finally the sister calls the hospital and finds out that Ethel “wasn’t released at all but somehow got out.” They nervously await the attendants from the hospital while Ethel, refusing to speak, formulates a plan to stay in the house. The women are terrified of her and appear relieved when the attendants arrive. As the men are ushering Ethel out, she takes one of the stones out of her pocket and pushes it into her sister’s mouth. The screen goes black. As it clears, the sister is being taken away while Ethel remains in the house: “For a moment I couldn’t see very clearly, but even during that moment I saw myself sitting on the sofa. As my vision cleared I saw that the men were holding my sister’s arms and she was putting up a terrific struggle. The strange thing, now that I think of it, was that no realized she was not I.”


WHEN PIGS FLY
94 min / 1993 / Colour / 1.85:1 / Stereo / English

When Pigs Fly is a film about a pair of ghosts, a jazz musician, a go-go dancer and a guy who gets what’s coming to him.

Set in a grim industrial town in a fading Irish American community, the film is in the tradition of Topper and the Canterville Ghost.

Two Ghosts, Lilly (Marianne Faithfull) and Ruthie (Rachel Bella), have been imprisoned for many years in rickety shed behind a seedy bar, the Rose of Erin. They are supernaturally connected to an old rocking chair stored there in which both had met their untimely deaths. Lilly was the wife of Frank (Seymour Cassel), the foul-tempered owner of the Rose of Erin. Ruthie is the ghost of a little girl from long ago.

Sheila (Maggie O’Neill), a go-go dancer in the Rose of Erin, acquires the rocking chair. She takes it home and leaves it a present for her landlord, Marty (Alfred Molina), a jazz musician in his early forties who lives with his dog, Dolphy, downstairs from her. Marty keeps to himself, he is out of place and out of time in the small community. The only contact he has with people are the few piano students he teaches to earn a living and a bewildered grey haired lady, Mrs. Cleary, from next door. Needless to say, he is perpetually “out to lunch” and hung-over until Lilly and Ruthie show up with the rocker and raise hell in his basement.

Marty and Sheila befriend the ghosts and ultimately, they become instruments of revenge for Lilly in the unfolding plot to get back at her jealous murdering husband, Frank. In the end Lilly gets her revenge. She and Ruthie are happily reunited with Lilly’s only daughter. Marty wakes up to the world and to Sheila.


THE BOWERY
10 min / 1994 / Colour / 1.33 :1 (4x3) / Mono / English

A short ten-minute movie about the Bowery, a street in lower Manhattan. A street known for its derelict past.

Tags: Sara Driver, DVD

A film by Matthew Akers

With Marina Abramović, Ulay and Klaus Biesenbach

Opens Friday, June 15th
Toronto at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Vancouver at 5th Avenue
Winnipeg at The Globe

Also Opens Friday, June 29th, Calgary at The Globe
and Friday, August 12, Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon


Toronto Press Screening Confirmed: Wednesday, May 30th, 10:00am @ TIFF Bell Lightbox


Matthew Akers’ Marina Abramović: the Artist is Present is opens in theatres on Friday, June 15th, 2012 in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg.

Testing her mental and physical limits with shocking, compelling and sometimes dangerous performances, Marina Abramović has been challenging the way people think about art for nearly 40 years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits––and at times risking her life in the process––she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Through her and with her, boundaries are crossed, consciousness expanded, and art as we know it is reborn. She is, quite simply, one of the most compelling artists of our time.

She is also a glamorous art-world icon, a lightning rod for controversy, and a myth of her own making. She is most certainly unlike anyone you have ever met before.

Marina Abramović:The Artist is Present looks back on Abramović’s prolific career, and follows her as she prepares herself and a group of artists for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The centrepiece of the show is Abramović’s mesmerizing new performance, The Artist Is Present, involving her constant seated presence in the gallery space for the length of the three-month exhibition, during which she is available for one-on-one silent interaction with members of the public. It will be the longest-duration solo work of her career, and by far the most physically and emotionally demanding she has ever attempted.

When she conceived it, she says, she knew instantly that it was the right piece because the mere thought of it "made me nauseous." The work's simplicity and purity has the potential to crystallize all that is best about her art, but it also demands that Abramović return to her roots––and forgo the overt theatricality that has characterized many of her recent performance pieces.

Countless intimate and individual connections are made between the artist and her scores of participants; through each encounter, as Abramović says, “performance becomes life itself.”


Matthew Akers is an accomplished producer, director, photographer and cinematographer. Recently, he was the series producer and cinematographer on a National Geographic television series about the medical marijuana industry in Colorado. He has worked on several other film series and documentaries including ones for PBS and HBO.

Marina Abramović is represented by Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.


Running time: 89 min

Official Website: http://marinafilm.com
Trailer: http://filmswelike.com/films/marina/ or http://marinafilm.com/view-trailer

For further information, images and press notes: http://filmswelike.com/films/marina/

Toronto Press Screening:
Wednesday, May 30th, 10:00am @ TIFF Bell Lightbox

To RSVP to the press screening and for further information, please contact:
V Kelly + Associates, 416-466-9799, info@vkpr.ca

Tags: Press Release, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Fifth Avenue, Globe Winnipeg

WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY
Berlin Film Festival's prestigious Queer 'TEDDY AWARD' prize

“The jury gives the best documentary award to The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye by Marie Losier. This film draws us into a whole new magical world of diversity where anything is possible; genders change, identities shift and two people can become one through pandrogyny. The jury feels that nobody could tell the story of this once in a lifetime love affair like Ms Losier, a filmmaker with the unique imagination to match her film’s subjects and the compassion to tell an extraordinary tale of queer pioneers into a simple and universal tale of love.”

GRAND PRIZE Indilisboa (Portugal)
CALIGARI AWARD Berlin Film Festival-Forum
AUDIENCE AWARD Buenos Aires Film Festival
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD-Outfest Film Festival (Los Angeles)
SPECIAL MENTION International Competition (Chile)
AUDIENCE AWARD FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA (Quebec)

Here's an intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV), his other half and collaborator Lady Jaye, and their mutual expression of unity which lead them to becoming near-duplicates of each other.

Undergoing body modification surgery resulted in daring sexual transformations and the melding of their bodies. They called it the “Pandrogyne” project.

"It is neither a documentary nor a rockumentary. Rather, it is a love story and a touching one." -FILM THREAT

"Epic romance and art were among their accomplishments… so was looking alike. Man, if you think you and your partner are co-dependent, check these two out! They met in a fetish dungeon, and spent years having plastic surgery to look more like one another." -qPDX.com

"Losier’s film captures the poignant paradoxes, the ecstasies and burdens, of the transformation of life into art." -THE NEW YORKER


UPCOMING SCREENINGS

Opens March 16, TIFF/ Bell Lightbox, Toronto

April 1, 2, 11 & 12, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver

April 6 - 10, Mayfair Theatre, Ottawa

WATCH THE TRAILER

Tags: TIFF Bell Lightbox, Mayfair Theatre, Pacific Cineamtheque, Press Release

DOPPELGÄNGER PAUL
(Or A Film About How Much I Hate Myself)

A film by Dylan Akio Smith and Kris Elgstrand



Following its Premiere at TIFF 2011 and successful screenings at the 2011 Whistler Film Festival and Slamdance 2012, Dylan Akio Smith and Kris Elgstrand’s feature film DOPPELGÄNGER PAUL (Or A Film About How Much I Hate Myself) will open Friday, February 24th at The Royal Theater, Toronto.

DOPPELGANGER PAUL (Or A Film About How Much I Hate Myself) tells the story of the unlikely relationship of Karl (Tygh Runyan, Snakes On A Plane, 15 Minutes, TV’s Battlestar Gallactica) and Paul (Brad Dryborough, The Cabin Movie, TIFF 2005; TV’s Battlestar Gallactica), two lonely men on the brink of middle age.

Following a near death experience, Karl comes to believe that Paul, a stranger he sees on the street, is his doppelgänger. After stalking him for several weeks, Karl finally makes contact thus setting in motion a bizarre chain of events that will result in the loss of a thumb, the theft of a manuscript, rides on a miniature railroad, a trip to Portland in a 1984 Chevy VanDura and two appearances on a popular morning talk show.

DOPPELGANGER PAUL (Or A Film About How Much I Hate Myself) plays out as a mind-bending human comedy that raises questions about the primacy of authorial ownership, intellectual piracy and man’s seemingly limitless ability to hate himself beyond all reason.

DOPPELGANGER PAUL (Or A Film About How Much I Hate Myself) is directed by long-time collaborators Dylan Akio Smith (also DP/Editor) and Kris Elgstrand (also screenwriter). Co-directing for the first time, they are the award-winning team behind previous TIFF offerings Man Feel Pain (Winner, Short Cuts Canada Award, TIFF 2004), The Cabin Movie (TIFF 2005) and Big Head (TIFF 2009).


For further information: http://doppelgangerpaul.com/
Images: http://filmswelike.com/films/doppelgangerpaul/
Press Notes: http://filmswelike.com/films/doppelgangerpaul/

Media contact:
V Kelly + Associates
416-466-9799, info@vkpr.ca

Tags: The Royal, Press Release