tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89880569542444132522024-02-20T17:34:08.015-08:00When We Were MarksMy travels through the sleazy world of independent wrestling as seen through the hazy murk of nostalgia and filtered through an addiction to pop culture. Written by a whiny, inconsistent, absent-minded procrastinating Grammar-Nazi.Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-23276281937374652862012-11-23T10:50:00.001-08:002012-11-23T10:50:13.922-08:00C*4 Wrestling: FIVE (Saturday, November 24th, 2013)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Assuming that my drive doesn't fall through, I will be at this and I would recommend it to anyone who loves wrestling (and to many who don't.) In fact, I would go so high as to say that this is likely to be the best Quebec wrestling show this year, even if it takes place in Ottawa. </div>
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There is a certain amount of (paternal?) pride in this. Mark got his start promoting helping Manny and I put together 3 IWS shows in Ottawa in 2005 and 2006. There was even some discussion about giving him the rights to do "IWS Ottawa" which never really went anywhere because of issues of ego and control. (Honestly, I don't even know if anyone even talked to Mark about it which shows how much of the discussion was driven by ego.) </div>
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Mark started Capital City Championship Combat (or C*4) in the fall of 2007 and it has consistently been my favourite wrestling promotion ever since. </div>
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This isn't because Mark books the way that I do. (Or used to, I mainly kibitz and offer suggestions these days when I am asked my opinion at all.) But when chefs eat out, they don't go to restaurants that serve exactly the same food prepared the same way as in their restaurant and the same is true for me in wrestling. </div>
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Mark does things that I actively hate (intermissions, too many matches) and somehow makes it work better than I ever would have thought. He also tries things that I never would have thought of, surprising and delighting me with his ingenuity.</div>
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If Mark's booking style has anything in common with the IWS style, it is his trust in the ideas that the wrestlers bring to the table and his ability to take those ideas and make them work, as well as his ability to seize something that happens by accident and turning into something that really pops the crowd and the gate. (The Hacker O'Shea vs Speedball Mike Bailey feud is the best current example.)</div>
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Mark has faced adversity and challenges as a promoter that Manny and I never had to face. We never lost half our card in a snow storm and put on a show anyway. </div>
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More importantly and tragically, we never lost a wrestler and a friend to cancer. Mark's reaction to <a href="http://llakor.blogspot.ca/2011/04/rip-francois-phrank-morin-1987-2011.html">Phrank's death</a> and the two "Fighting With Cancer" benefits that he staged are his finest moments as a promoter, both creatively and in terms of his ability to raise money (with a great deal of help obviously.) The two benefits raised more than $24,000 without any corporate sponsorships and that is something for anyone to be proud of. </div>
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I am personally proud of what Mark has accomplished over five years, putting together the best regular indy wrestling roster in Canada and one of the best in the world, combining great wrestlers from Ontario, Quebec and guests from everywhere else to regularly put on the best wrestling shows that anyone, anywhere is doing. </div>
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<br />Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-87260178788760573902012-11-01T18:13:00.000-07:002012-11-01T18:13:03.415-07:00Wrestling is a Story-Telling Art: Tag Team Division<b>Wrestling is a Story-Telling Art: <i>Tag Team Division</i></b><br />
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This Saturday, November 3rd at Mainline Theatre on St-Laurent, Montreal promotion will be telling a pack of stories in a one night Tag Team Tournament. Here is why you should care:<br />
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First of all, it's a great place to see some of Montreal's best indy wrestlers which is to say some of the best indy wrestlers in the world. But even if you have no interest in wrestling, it will be a great way to watch a different kind of story-telling art form in the context of a theatre that normally puts on plays.<br />
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And yes, wrestling is a story-telling art form...<br />
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When I was more heavily involved in promoting wrestling, I would talk my way on to CBC radio programs from time to time, usually by explaining that I was the promotion's writer. It was a delicate dance of peeling back Kay-Fabe, but restoring it at the same time - of insisting that the wrestlers deserved the same suspension of disbelief that you would give a film or stage actor.<br />
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It was the female interviewers who would push the hardest, wondering if the violent nature of wrestling didn't make for a limited canvas. My usual response to that was to point out that I had once booked a wrestling show as a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's <i>Richard III</i> to which there was no useful counter. <br />
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The next angle most would try would be to try and guilt me over the damage that wrestlers were doing to their bodies in the ring. My counter to that would be to ask if they had taken a look at a ballerina's feet lately, that the pressure of ballet was just as violent to dancer's bodies as wrestling was to my friends.<br />
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If wrestling is a story-telling art, as I believe it to be, the place with the best stories to tell is the tag team division. The reason is simple: in every match, you have allies and enemies, friends and opponents, love and hate.<br />
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Tag teams allow you to combine two men who are identical (brothers) or completely opposite. They can have styes that clash or complement. They can have personalities that work well together or that grate on each other's nerves. They can be a team that is just starting to gel, one that is firing on all cylinders or a team that is falling apart.<br />
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Even within one team there are a myriad of possibilities for telling stories. Throw two teams against one another and the story-telling possibilities are endless.<br />
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Even the ring itself works better in a tag team match, especially if there are tag ropes attached to two opposing posts. the idea being that the untagged wrestler holds onto the tag rope, waiting for his partner to tag him back into the match.<br />
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Tag ropes were, they are, a natural organic way of helping to tell the story that you are trying to tell in a tag team match. Start with how the two teams hold the tag ropes. The babyface team (the good guys) grips the rope as if it were a lifeline, gripping it in their fist, pulling on the rope as they lean away from the turn buckle. On the other hand, the heel team (the bad guys), if they bother to hold the tag ropes at all, do so nonchalantly and disdainfully. Sometimes they hold the rope in the palm of their hands, sometimes they merely grip it with their pinky finger, and sometimes they only pick it up just as a tag is made. Just by how they hold the tag ropes, the baby-faces communicate their commitment to the rules, how tightly they are bound to those rules, and how fiercely in turn those rules grip them. The baby-face can no more relinquish his hold on the tag ropes than he can relinquish his grip on the rules of fair play. He could let go of the tag ropes, but then he would no longer be a baby-face. By contrast, the heels demonstrate their disregard for the rules and how much they disdain them by how loosely they hold the tag ropes. In fact, their total disrespect for the rules is demonstrated by the way that they pervert the rules by using the tag ropes as a weapon.<br />
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Finally, the tag ropes give a dramatic demonstration of the dynamic inherent in most tag-team matches. As the frustrated babyface is straining away at the ropes, he is demonstrating a principle of physics known as potential energy. When you store a book on a shelf, the higher the shelf and the heavier the book, the more potential energy is stored in the book. When the book falls off the shelf that potential energy is transformed into kinetic energy. If a paperback novel is on the bottom shelf, you'll barely notice it when it hits your foot, but when the condensed Oxford English Dictionary falls off the top shelf, onto your foot, you might break a toe. This principle of physics is usually understood on a primal level by most people, even if they couldn't explain the math behind it. When the frustrated babyface strains at the tag rope, we, the audience, understand on a primal level, that potential energy is being stored and coiled up like a spring, and that this energy can only achieve its violent release as kinetic energy when his beaten and battered partner finally makes his way across the ring to make the tag. In the same way, our emotions are coiled up waiting for their violent release with that dramatic tag.<br />
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Come this Saturday and watch an incredibly talented group of performers wind you up into caring about the stories that they are telling. You won't regret it.<br />
Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-49253418792574523662012-07-03T08:18:00.000-07:002012-07-03T08:33:29.217-07:00So You Missed the 2012 YoungCuts Film Festival Deadline<b><u>So you missed the deadline to submit to a film festival! Now what?</u></b><br />
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The following advice is specifically for the YoungCuts Film Festival, but much of the advice can be applied to other film festivals.<br />
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So you intended to submit to a film festival, but you weren't ready for their Early-bird deadline, you forgot to send your film for the regular deadline and now you have successfully procrastinated until you managed to miss their late. drop-dead, final deadline.<br />
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Giving up is certainly an option, but many Festivals like the YoungCuts Film Festival choose their deadlines so that they can be flexible enough to give filmmakers a break on missing the deadline. Before you ask for an extension or deadline waiver, take a look at when they announce their Festival selections.<br />
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In the case of the YoungCuts Film Festival, we intend to announce our Top 100 International Short Films the week of July 23rd.<br />
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<span class="formA">The 23rd of July is twenty days away! There is obviously some wriggle room there! And saying that the notification date is "Approximately" July 23rd means that there is even more wriggle room. You can probably still get your film in. </span><br />
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And to answer the next question, yes, you can get a deadline waiver for your film for the YoungCuts Film Festival.<br />
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Before you do though, a few pieces of advice.<br />
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The key to submitting your film to a Festival after the final deadline (assuming that you can get a waiver) is to imagine that you are running a race with a series of hurdles. These hurdle start out very low and easy to jump in the days after the final deadline has passed and grow increasingly taller - and harder to vault over - the closer to the Notification Date that you get.<br />
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The first hurdle is<span class="formA"> <b><span style="color: red;">Getting the Festival a Screener Copy to Review</span></b>.</span><br />
Since speed is of the essence, we would suggest the following: Put your film on Vimeo with a password. Leave the download option turned on in the privacy settings and send us that link. DropBox and YouSendIt are also viable options.<span class="formA"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="formA">Your second hurdle is <b><span style="color: red;">Getting the Festival Physical Copies of Your Film</span></b>.</span><br />
Be sure that you understand exactly what the Festival wants. Be ready to ship them the material that they want, when they ask for it. Be extra careful to test what you are sending so that there are no errors or glitches. Try to ship it so that you can track your package and make sure that the Festival receives it. Be careful of special circumstances that could cause a delay. If you are shipping internationally, make sure to label your package: Cultural Material, No Commercial Value". This is so that your package is not stopped or slowed down by Customs.<span class="formA"><br /></span><br />
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In the specific case of the YoungCuts Film Festival, we require 2 DVD screeners, playable on any DVD player and a data DVD with highest-quality possible .MOV of your film to prepare material for projection and screening. We only need this for films that are picked, but once films are picked, we need that material as quickly as possible.<br />
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<span class="formA">The third hurdle is <b><span style="color: red;">Having Made a Great Film</span></b>.</span><br />
Keep in mind here that the Festival is in full swing watching and judging the Festival Submissions. In some categories, they may already be penciling in rough screenings of films. Before the final deadline, you just needed to get a Festival judge to fall in love with your film and champion it. Now you might need to convince a judge to fall out of love with another film so that you can take its spot. It is not going to happen if your film is as good as the films already submitted. It has to be better. And the closer to the Notification Date, the better that your film needs to be to be selected.<br />
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<span class="formA">The fourth hurdle is the <b><span style="color: red;">Length of Your Film</span></b>. </span><br />
Again the Festival judges are already starting to pencil in rough screenings. If they are programming 100 minutes and they have 75 minutes penciled in, that leaves 25 minutes of film to program. If you have a 30 minute film, the judges either have to decide to make the screening longer or bump one of their rough picks to play your film. In either case, if they do pick your film it probably leaves them no room to program other films during that screening, which they may be reluctant to do. The closer to the Notification Date, the closer to being fixed the screenings will be and the harder that it will be to squeeze in a longer film. As a general rule, the closer to the Notification Date, the shorter that your film will need to be to be chosen.<span class="formA"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="formA"><span class="formA">The fifth and final hurdle is <b><span style="color: red;">Responding Quickly to the Festival</span></b></span></span><br />
As a Festival gets closer and closer to making its Selection, it sometimes needs information or material from a filmmaker. How quickly they can get that information or material can sometimes be a way that the Festival decides between two equally good films. If the jury is divided between two films and both films are missing information or material, the filmmaker who responds fastest and best to the Festival Director's requests is going to see their film get programmed.<br />
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<span class="formA">So, again, yes, you can have a deadline waiver, but be sure that you are ready to run the race and vault every hurdle along the way before you start running. </span><br />
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<b>Last Chance to Submit!</b><br />
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The final deadline for the YoungCuts Film Festival is July 2nd. (In practice, Monday is a holiday in Canada and we are flexible, so you have plenty of time to sneak in your film at the wire.) But don't wait! Submit today!<br />
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Here is how to submit:<br />
http://www.youngcuts.com/static/how_to_submit_to_the_2012_youngcuts_film_festival<br />
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Remember that we have added a Master Class section this year for filmmakers 26-29, so we are accepting films from any young filmmaker 29 or under.<br />
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<b>Watch the Best of YoungCuts TV Specials</b><br />
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Earlier this year, we were able to broadcast 10 short films from the YoungCuts Film Festival as 2 TV specials presented in High Definition on the HIFI channel.<br />
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Now, you can watch those two specials online for FREE!<br />
http://www.youngcuts.com/best_of_youngcuts<br />
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<b>Filmmaker Opportunity: ReelWorld Film Festival Indie Film Lounge</b><br />
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Each summer ReelWorld Film Festival and Foundation selects 20 diverse emerging producers, directors, screenwriters or actors to participate in our annual Indie Film Lounge happening September 12-13. These E20 and are given the opportunity to meet, network and pitch at one-on-one meeting with established producers, directors, writers, actors, funders, agents, broadcasters, distributors, and union reps. If you are working on a project or want to move your career ahead in the right direction than <a href="http://www.reelworld.ca/how-to-apply/" target="_blank">apply now</a> or e-mail <a href="mailto:industry@reelworld.ca" target="_blank">industry@reelworld.ca</a><br />
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<b>Application Deadline</b>: July 20th, 2012<br />
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<b>The YoungCuts Film Festival Facebook Page</b><br />
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Almost every day, we are featuring images from films submitted to this year's festival (or from previous festivals) along with discussions and advice inspired by those films.<br />
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Find Us and Like Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youngcuts<br />
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*****Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-10434752979534818142012-06-08T19:31:00.002-07:002012-06-08T19:31:35.227-07:00YoungCuts Film Festival Deadline Extension<br />
<b><u>YoungCuts Film Festival Deadline Extension</u></b><br />
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At the request of many schools, institutions, students and young<br />
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This year, the YoungCuts Film Festival (est 2001) celebrates 11 years of presenting Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers. Every year, we watch more than 1,000 films from over 30 countries to pick our Top 100 International Short Films - which we present in Montreal at the end of September.<br />
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One of our key objectives is to help young filmmakers develop their filmmaking careers. In addition to showcasing their films at the YoungCuts Film Festival, we have helped place filmmakers with major studios and television broadcasters, landed them gigs filming major feature films, had their films broadcast on television (and on planes!), helped them get selected in partner film festivals, and engaged them to work in more than 500 film and television productions across North America.<br />
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If you need to jump start your filmmaking career, we are an excellent place for them to start. At the very least, since many festival professionals regard us as the source of the best short films by young filmmakers, submitting to the YoungCuts Film Festival often results in the films being selected by other international film festivals.<br />
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<b>REMINDER</b>: We added a "Masterclass" section this year for filmmakers 26-29, meaning that we program films by any young filmmaker 29 years old or under.<br />
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Contact us for more details at <a href="tel:514-285-4591" target="_blank" value="+15142854591">514-285-4591</a> or <a href="mailto:festivaldirector@youngcuts.com" target="_blank">festivaldirector@youngcuts.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/how_to_submit_to_the_2012_youngcuts_film_festival" target="_blank">http://www.youngcuts.com/<wbr></wbr>static/how_to_submit_to_the_<wbr></wbr>2012_youngcuts_film_festival</a><br />
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<b><u>Sweet Tooth Wins the YoungCuts Film Festival Studio Technique Animation Prize</u></b><br />
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We are pleased to announce that Audrey Meubus, director of <i>Sweet Tooth</i>, has been chosen as the winner of the YoungCuts Film Festival Studio Technique Animation Prize. This means that Audrey won a free seat in the <a href="http://www.studiotechniquemontreal.com/events/?p=173">one day Studio Technique intensive animation course</a> given by legendary Disney Animator Andreas Deja (designer of Scar amongst many other accomplishments).<br />
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Audrey (and her film) were chosen from amongst 50 short animated films submitted to the contest. We are also pleased to make <i>Sweet Tooth</i> the first film chosen to be amongst our Top 100 International Short Films at the 2012 YoungCuts Film Festival.<br />
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The 50 short animated films (and more than 150 live action films) are available to watch on the YoungCuts web-site for subscribers (and film submitters)<br />
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*****<br />Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-73927367855448062252012-06-07T20:02:00.000-07:002012-06-07T20:02:20.267-07:00The Champ Will Be Here: Kevin Steen Wrestles for BATTLEWAR this Sunday @ Foufs<b><u>The Champ Will Be Here: Kevin Steen Wrestles for BATTLEWAR this Sunday @ Foufs</u></b><br />
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Ring of Honor champion Kevin Steen will wrestle in his hometown Montreal for the first time since winning the ROH title, this Sunday, June 10th at Foufs Electronique for BATTLEWAR.<br />
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Come give the champ the respect that he deserves.<br />
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Steen will team with his frequent Quebec <strike>tag-team partner</strike> punching bag Speedball Mike Bailey to face off against the Super Smash Brothers, Stupefied and Player Uno. This is a match-up of four of the best wrestlers in <strike>Quebec</strike> <strike>Canada</strike> the World.<br />
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They can and they will tear the house down.<br />
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But even if Kevin wasn't going to be wrestling in Montreal this weekend, I would still be excited fro BATTLEWAR II. Why? Glad you asked.<br />
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Steen's other frequent <strike>punching bag</strike> tag team partner from Quebec, El Generico, will be wrestling in singles action in a match-up of Quebec Enmascarados. I would like to say that it is a dream match, but it's only a dream match if your dreams are booked by Freddy Krueger. Generico will be wrestling against the worst person in Quebec wrestling, Emperor Palpatine as played by Ron Jeremy, the one and Thank God the only, Giant Tiger.<br />
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Expect fireworks - that Giant Tiger will urinate on.<br />
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I am very excited to watch Shane Matthews and Jagged aka 3.0 fight the team I am calling "Les Maudites" Mathieu St-Jacques and Thomas "Pipes" Dubois.<br />
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Of course, the reason that I am excited is unlikely to fill Shane and Jagged with joy. Those two are ridiculously talented, but the danger of that is that they sometimes have a tendency to glide through matches because they can win - hell they can excel - at half speed. They are never better than when they are challenged - never better than when someone punches them in the mouth and forces them to pay attention.<br />
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I think St-Jacques and Dubois are smart enough to know that, cocky enough to want to prove they can beat the best at their best and tough enough to punch the champs in the mouth and to hell with the consequences.<br />
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Yes, Shane, I am cheering for you to get punched in the mouth. And I'm saying it will be good for you.<br />
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Former tag team partners (The Rock and Roid Express) Twiggy (the Rock) and Franky the Mobster (the Roid) are facing off against one another.<br />
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It's an interesting pairing. No one has ever achieved more with less than Twiggy, but on paper Franky the Mobster should be able to destroy Twiggy without breaking a sweat.<br />
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On the other hand, I don't want to call Franky an underachiever, but he is completely capable of underestimating Twiggy.<br />
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On the gripping hand, Twiggy is the smartest man in Quebec wrestling. It's easy to overlook this, but every-time that Twiggy wins, he does so by outthinking his opponent.<br />
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If Franky is reading this, I am not saying that you're dumb, but I am definitely, absolutely 100% saying that Twiggy is smarter than you are.<br />
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After watching the Green Phantom and Dirty Buxx Belmar tear each other to shreds in a dirty, dirty, violent hardcore wrestling match in the first BATTLEWAR show, I am excited to see them square off again. I am equally excited to see Heavy Maxx Fury and Superstar Shayne Hawke added to the mix.<br />
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Fury has known the Phantom for more than a decade and he is probably the most naturally talented guy in the match. No one on this show wrestles less often than Maxx Fury or looks better when he does wrestle. Maxx is frighteningly good.<br />
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Superstar Shayne Hawke, on the other hand, is probably the most versatile wrestler in Quebec. It's easy to miss, but Shayne can wrestle anyone in the world, make them look good doing it, but also find a way to win.<br />
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Dirty Buxx Belmar used to wrestle under the name of Busty Love and when he did so, he was a frustratingly talented guy. He had all the tools, but no idea when or how to use them. Now as Buxx, everything that he does in the ring is rooted in who he is as a person. The missing ingredient for wrestling success for Buxx was finding who he was, retreating to the roots of his character. Of course, the guy who emerged from that inner search was a smelly, homeless drunk, who happens to know Muay Thai, but at least Buxx owns that inner odor.<br />
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Kicking all of their asses will be the Green Phantom, the uncrowned king of Montreal hardcore wrestling. No one's crazier, no one's a bigger bad-ass, no one's a better brawler.<br />
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Put those four together and I am excited to see what they can do.<br />
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One of the nice bonuses of BATTLEWAR is the return of Vanessa Kraven to wrestling. Best get to BATTLEWAR early to see her though. She is wrestling in a special preview match - a six person tag scramble match.<br />
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All of this will be announced by Iron Mike Paterson.<br />
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Tickets are just $15 at the door. Doors open at 7PM, preview match at 7:30PM, show starts at 8PM. Foufs is at 87 Ste-Catherine East, right by the St-Laurent metro.<br />
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Be there or miss the best wrestling in <strike>Quebec</strike> <strike>Canada</strike> the World!<br />
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<br />Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-42046659237134833732012-05-31T08:36:00.001-07:002012-05-31T08:48:57.660-07:00Sweet Tooth Wins the YoungCuts Film Festival Studio Technique Animation Prize<b><u>Sweet Tooth Wins the YoungCuts Film Festival Studio Technique Animation Prize</u></b><br />
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We are pleased to announce that Audrey Meubus, director of <i>Sweet Tooth</i>, has been chosen as the winner of the YoungCuts Film Festival Studio Technique Animation Prize. This means that Audrey will have a free seat in the <a href="http://www.studiotechniquemontreal.com/events/?p=173">one day Studio Technique intensive animation course</a> being given by legendary Disney Animator Andreas Deja (designer of Scar amongst many other accomplishments).<br />
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Audrey (and her film) was chosen from amongst 50 short animated films submitted to the contest. We are also pleased to make <i>Sweet Tooth</i> the first film chosen to be amongst our Top 100 International Short Films at the 2012 YoungCuts Film Festival.<br />
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The 50 short animated films (and more than 150 live action films) are available to watch on the YoungCuts web-site for subscribers (and film submitters):<br />
<a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/festival_audience_subscription_payment" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.youngcuts.com/static/festival_audience_subscription_payment</a><br />
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Use YCNL5 as a coupon to get $5 off the cost of a subscription.<br />
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You can also use that coupon to reduce the cost when you submit your short film (animated or live action) to the YoungCuts Film Festival. We have extended our final deadline to July 2nd, but <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/how_to_submit_to_the_2012_youngcuts_film_festival">SUBMIT TODAY</a>!<br />
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You can watch Sweet Tooth for free on the YoungCuts web-site here:<br />
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There are still seats available in the Studio Technique class - for details go here:<br />
<a href="http://www.studiotechniquemontreal.com/events/?p=173" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.studiotechniquemontreal.com/events/?p=173</a><br />
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<b><i>The Secret History of Kevin Steen's Quest for the ROH World Title</i></b><br />
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<a href="http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2012/05/14/19755656.html">Kevin Steen won the Ring of Honor title</a> last Saturday, beating Davey Richards in Toronto during <b><i>Border Wars</i></b>, much to Ring of Honor's <a href="http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/may-15th-newswire">very kayfabe dismay</a>.<br />
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The funny thing is that Kevin has been fighting for the ROH title against the promotion's wishes since 2004, one year before his first official match with the company (<b><i><a href="http://www.rohwrestling.com/product/kevin-steen-ascension-top-2-disc-set">Do or Die 4</a></i></b> - February 19th, 2005).<br />
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Pat Laprade, author of the upcoming book: <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Dogs-Midgets-Screw-Jobs/dp/1770410945/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1337365545&sr=8-2">Mad Dogs, Midgets and Screw Jobs: The Untold Story of How Montreal Shaped the World of Wrestling</a></i></b> asked me for some comments for <a href="http://www.rds.ca/lutte/chroniques/340389.html">his weekly RDS column</a>.<br />
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Since Pat translated what I said into French and only used part of it (because Quelle Surprise! I wrote too much) I thought that I would post up my full original thoughts here:<br />
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I am extremely happy that Kevin Steen has (finally) won the Ring of Honor title.<br />
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What may surprise many people is that Steen first fought for the ROH title waaaaaaay back on July 2, 2004 in Montreal against Samoa Joe during the Samoan Bulldozer's record-setting 21 month ROH title reign. (He also wrestled Austin Aries for the ROH title in Montreal 6 months later, wrestling twice for the ROH title before ever being on the ROH roster - which has to be some kind of record.) <br />
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Steen fought Samoa Joe to a draw during <a href="http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/miscellaneous-dvds/marc-le-grizzly-dvd-presents-midsummer-madness-july-2-2004-montreal-quebec/"><b><i>Midsummer Madness</i></b></a> - a show promoted by respected wrestling trainer Mark le Grizzly - a show that brought together the best wrestlers in Montreal from all the local promotions, including the one that I was working for at the time: the International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS). <br />
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We had just made Kevin Steen our champion at our fifth Anniversary show "<a href="http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/iws-dvd/iws-dvd-june-15-2004-v-montreal-canada/"><b><i>V</i></b></a>", a show that got a lot of attention because it featured the return to wrestling of Sid Vicious, three years after shattering his leg during the WCW PPV Sin. The return was so unexpected that Dave Meltzer, publisher of the Wrestling Observer, woke his Quebec correspondant up in the middle of the night because he was convinced that the show report was a hoax. <br />
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In following up on that world-wide publicity, part of our strategy was to try and get IWS wrestlers on as many prestigious independent promotions as possible. Partly we did this to sell more IWS DVDs outside of Montreal, partly to sell more tickets in Montreal, partly because we hoped that our wrestlers would be loyal to the IWS because of our help, but mostly we did it because we believed that our guys were as good as anyone in the world and only needed a chance to prove it.<br />
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After Steen, Generico, Eddy and Excess69 tore the house down in an IWS Fatal Fourway Match during a CZW show, we set our sights on getting a carload of IWS wrestlers booked at Jersey All-Pro Wrestling. We had been pestering Fat Frank, the booker of JAPW, for a solid year without much success, but the combination of the Sid Vicious coup and the CZW four-way finally made him take us seriously. Frank only had one final hurdle for us before agreeing to book Steen and company - he wanted another wrestler to vouch for our guys. Knowing that Samoa Joe wrestled for Frank, we immediately pointed him in that direction, telling him that Steen and Joe had had an incredible brawl in Montreal. A half-hour later, Frank relayed to us the results of his conversation with Samoa Joe, "Steen is a cocky son-of-a-bitch, but he can back it up in the ring. Book him." <br />
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Many people point to the success of the CZW match as what broke Quebec wrestlers like Steen and Generico in the United States, but the JAPW match was almost more important. It proved that what happened in Philadelphia wasn't a fluke. And backstage, Steen and Generico met Super Dragon... who invited Steen and El Generico to join the roster of PWG, which in turn led eventually to both men joining ROH. <br />
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Eight years later, Steen is World Champion, joining a proud but small list of Quebeckers who could make that boast: Yvon Robert, Edouard Carpentier, Chris Benoit, Don Eagle, Mad Dog Vachon, Ron Garvin, Stan Stasiak and Rick Martel.<br />
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When Kevin Steen first wrestled in Japan (March 15, 2005), there were fans there with signs calling him "Mr. Wrestling". This got Steen some back-stage heat, first for his nick-name, second for having signs before his first Japanese match when wrestlers who had been coming to Japan for ten years had no signs. Steen didn't choose his nick-name and he didn't bring the signs, his fans did (the Japanese fans got the nickname from Kevin's deranged Montreal fans), but Kevin Steen has never apologized for being better than everyone else and inspiring those fans.<br />
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The difference between Kevin Steen and many other wrestlers in this province isn't that he was given opportunities. True, many people in Quebec gave Steen opportunities: Manny, Nightmare Manson (aka Eric Picard - the first guy to put a belt on Kevin) and Marc le Grizzly to name a few. But every time Steen was given an inch, he took a yard. Every time that someone opened the door a crack, he put his shoulder down and busted the door down. Every time we said that Kevin Steen was the best in the world, he went out and proved us right. <br />
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Just in time for exams, YoungCuts Inc. releases a <a href="http://www.textbookvideos.com/news/free_textbookvideos_study_guide_for_microeconomics_released">free Microeconomics study guide</a>. The free guide, available on <a href="http://www.textbookvideos.com/">the TextbookVideos web-site</a>, is based on a two year YoungCuts project that included the production of 150 short videos, featuring some of North America's best economics professors. Each video describes a key Economics concept. The videos use animation, graphics, b-roll, and special effects to help students quickly grasp the subject matter.<br />
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In preparing the project, YoungCuts interviewed more than 200 students, education experts, university administrators and professors who teach economics - including at least one from every U.S. state and Canadian province.<br />
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Company President and study guide author Jay Moulton explained the genesis of the study guide.<br />
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"After two years developing the Real World Economics video series, we found that written economics study guides existed, but most were hundreds of pages long.<br />
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We originally wrote this study guide to accompany the TextbookVideos microeconomics video series, but we decided to offer the text version of the study guide at no charge. If students like the study guide, they'll love the videos."<br />
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The video series is available by subscription for as little as $9.95 at <a href="http://textbookvideos.com/">TextbookVideos.com</a>.<br />
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The study guide will also be available on the web-site with integrated videos.<br />
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McGill University Economics instructor Eesha Sen Choudhury, Ph.D., worked closely with the TextbookVideos team to develop the study guide, quizzes and videos.<br />
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The company's Real World Economics microeconomics series includes 60 core videos, each one averaging just over 4 minutes in length. TextbookVideos is releasing another 90 microeconomics videos at its web site in early May 2012.<br />
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The study guide's ISBN number is 978-1-927493-00-7. For further information, contact Jay Moulton at 514-846-3400, or <a href="mailto:jay@textbookvideos.com">jay@textbookvideos.com</a><br />
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1. <u>Best of YoungCuts on HIFI Television this Saturday!</u><br />
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HIFI is owned and operated by High Fidelity HDTV™, a North American leader in HD broadcasting. With its suite of High Definition channels, Oasis HD™, HIFI™, eqhd™, and radX™, High Fidelity HDTV broadcasts some of the best non-fiction programming from around the world. To see what channel your TV provider carries the HIFI channel on go here: <a href="http://www.hifi.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=8">http://www.hifi.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=8</a><br />
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2.<u> YoungCuts Responds to Popular Demand with New 29 and Under Category! </u><br />
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In case you missed the announcement, YoungCuts has added a new category for filmmakers 26 to 29 years old.<br />
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The 2012 YoungCuts Film Festival is now accepting submissions to the YoungCuts MasterClass category for filmmakers 26 to 29 years old. This is a great opportunity for filmmakers 26 to 29 years old to submit their best work to the Festival. Next deadline for this category is April 30.<br />
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Our goal in introducing this new section is to throw a spotlight on filmmakers 26 to 29 (previously too old for the Festival) including many YoungCuts Alumni and to fulfil our mandate to present Great Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers! To submit for consideration in this section, please go <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/festival_submission_masterclass_payment" target="_blank">HERE</a>! <br />
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Film submitters, subscribers, supporters and sponsors of the YoungCuts Film Festival can now watch more than 150 short films on the YoungCuts web-site. And we will be adding another 50 short films to the site in the next 30 days.<br />
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After watching the films, viewers are invited to vote on the films as part of our "People's Choice" voting to help pick twenty of our Top 100 films that we will present during the YoungCuts Film Festival, September 27th to 30th.<br />
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It's time that someone returned fun to wrestling in Montreal!<br />
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Like you, we have noticed that there has been a void in wrestling here in Montreal. We are not so dramatic as some wrestling fans as to call it "The Death of Wrestling in Montreal" but we have definitely noticed that you can't go to a bar, have a drink and watch the best wrestlers in Montreal, which is to say some of the best wrestlers in the world, best the ever-living holy shit out of each other while a bunch of drunken wrestling fans go nuts.<br />
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So we decided to decided to something about it. <br />
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On Sunday, April 22nd, 2102, we invite you to come Foufounes Electriques to watch great wrestling and drink cheap beer. The bell will ring to officially start the show at 8PM, but hell it's been so long since the last time that we have been able to get together, drink a beer and put on a wrestling show that chaos could erupt at any time that Sunday anywhere in Foufs. <br />
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Who's we? You might ask. Who has signed up to entertain you the way that only drunken Montreal wrestling can?<br />
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Well to start there's me. You know Llakor. The second best indy write-up guy in the world! (And modest too!) <br />
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Franky the Mobster has signed up! Twiggy has signed up! Stupefied has signed up! And celebrating a Decade of Generic Awesomeness, the greatest luchador ever to adopt Montreal as his home town - El Generico - has signed up! <b><i>OLE! OLE! OLE!</i></b><br />
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And a bunch of other guys dedicated to beating the crap out of each other while you maniacs howl for more have signed up, but hey I need something to announce next week. <br />
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It's time to bring back the fun to wrestling!<br />
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And that means... <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/battlewarinfo">BATTLEWAR</a></b>!<br />
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For now that is all that you need to know, but - you know - since I like over-explaining things, every week over the next few weeks I will be announcing more wrestlers and - you know - matches, in inimitable Llakor style. <br />
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Did I say that was all you need to know? Oops. My Bad.<br />
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Tickets are $15. Buy a ticket in advance and you'll get a physical ticket, plus we'll bring you upstairs earlier and you can buy wrestling DVDs from me for $5. Contact me at <a href="mailto:Llakor@hotmail.com">Llakor@hotmail.com</a> for details with "BATTLEWAR Tickets" as the subject.Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-90892672853166979222012-02-29T09:53:00.000-08:002012-02-29T09:53:30.802-08:00YoungCuts Film Festival Poster and Contest<u><b>YoungCuts Film Festival Poster and Contest</b></u><br />
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Here is the 2012 YoungCuts Film Festival Poster:<br />
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I guess we should say <b><u>Posters</u></b>, one in English and the other bilingual.<br />
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To mark the release of our Festival Poster, we are going to have a contest. The rules are simple. All you have to do is print out one of our posters, hang it up somewhere cool where young filmmakers can see it and send us a picture of the poster. It should be obvious from the picture in what city or country the poster is being displayed.<br />
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<a href="http://youngcuts.blogspot.com/2011/04/youngcuts-submission-poster-in-san.html">Here are some examples from last year</a>. <br />
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We will feature the best pictures on our <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/">web-site</a>, <a href="http://youngcuts.blogspot.com/">blog</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/YoungCuts">Twitter</a>, Facebook and Google+. The person who submits what we believe to be the best picture wins a <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/festival_audience_subscription_payment">free subscription</a> to our web-site and we will waive the <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/festival_submission_payment">submission fee</a> for a newly submitted film of the winner's choosing. We will announce the winner May 1st. <br />
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You can download a PDF of the English Poster from <a href="http://www.youngcuts/demo/images/YoungCuts_Poster_2012_English.pdf">HERE</a> or the Bilingual Poster from <a href="http://www.youngcuts/demo/images/YoungCuts_Poster_2012_Bilingual.pdf">HERE</a>.<br />
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The YoungCuts Film Festival presents Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers 25 and under. If that sounds like your film, <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/how_to_submit_to_the_2012_youngcuts_film_festival">SUBMIT TODAY</a>!<br />
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If you are an animator, you may be interested in our <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/news/youngcuts_animation_prize">YoungCuts Animation Prize</a>. This juried prize will award the winner a free spot in a one day <a href="http://www.studiotechniquemontreal.com/events/">Animation Masterclass</a> being given in Montreal June 2nd by veteran Disney animator <a href="http://www.andreasdeja.blogspot.com/">Andreas Deja</a>. <br />
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<u><b>Become A Judge!</b></u><br />
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For the first time this year, we invite the public to become a YoungCuts judge by <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/festival_audience_subscription_payment">subscribing</a> to our site, for about the price of a movie ticket, to watch and vote for films submitted to the Festival. Based on this People's Choice voting we will announce 20 films selected to be included in our Top 100 films - announced in mid-July and played during the YoungCuts Film Festival September 28th and 29th.<br />
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Our subscribers can already watch a selection of films from the <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/selections_from_the_top_100_films_at_the_2011_youngcuts_film_festival">2011 YoungCuts Film Festival</a>, plus watch and vote for our <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/early_bird_2012_peoples_choice">Early Bird</a> films as well as films that almost made it into last year's Festival in our <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/january_2012_peoples_choice">Second Chance or Repechage Film Gallery</a>. We will be adding new film galleries every two weeks until the end of June, so there will be plenty of great films to watch and vote for!<br />
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I was at the C*4 show put on during the weekend blizzard. (Those guys really need to invest in a mad scientist with a weather control machine.) Since I live-tweeted the show, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mousterpiece/status/173607230271275010">freaking</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mousterpiece/status/173622296257380352">out</a> my <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mousterpiece">co-host</a> on the <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/category/radio/mousterpiece-cinema-podcast/">Mousterpiece Cinema podcast</a>, I thought that I should transcribe my tweets and add a few other random thoughts.<br />
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<b>L</b>ive <b>T</b>weet: Razen beats Ryan Rogan in 3:51 after Rogan whiffs on a top rope spinning moonsault. Not sure if it is significant that the best spots in the Dark Match were moves that hit nothing but mat.<br />
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<b>C*4</b> Official Results: Razan pinned Ryan Rogan.<br />
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<b>R</b>andom <b>T</b>houghts: The second missed move was a sweet elbow drop also by Rogan. Mixing big whiffed spots into a dark match are a good idea. They emphasize that you are on the undercard, missing something that someone higher on the card would hit. They also allow you to show-off without stealing anyone's thunder.<br />
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<b>LT</b>: Jae Rukin beats MVP in 8:19 thanks to Prince Rahim Ali distraction from ringside.<br />
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<b>C*4</b>: Jae Rukin pinned Michael Von Payton in a competitive match. The end saw Rahim Ali emerge from the locker room, shouting at MVP, causing him to be distracted. Rukin took the opening, and managed to score the win.<br />
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<b>RT</b>: Jae Rukin has a great unique look, like an #OccupyWallStreet protestor crossed with a Ninja and interbred with a Chia Pet. He is also a hell of a wrestler. He does need to work at involving the crowd a bit more in his matches. He has a tendency to wrestle with his back to the audience.<br />
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<b>LT</b>: Twiggy beats <i>Barely Legal</i> Addy Starr by disqualification in 7:37. End sequence: Twiggy roll-up pulling tights gets two, Starr complains to ref, Twiggy swats her on the butt to get her attention, Starr snaps - starts killing Twiggy with kicks in corner, ref counts her to DQ. <br />
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<b>C*4</b>: Twiggy was victorious over Addy Starr via DQ, when she ignored the referee’s 5-count in the ropes. Addy lost her ‘cool’ following an ass-slap by Twiggy. Despite the disqualification victory, Twiggy celebrated it as a major win.<br />
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<b>RT</b>: This was so good. I could easily write 1,000 words just on this match and I may yet. <br />
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<b>LT</b>: 4 Way Tag Team Match: Afterparty vs the Hunks vs Hawke and Style vs Ryder and Lucky Sabiti. Winner: The Afterparty with double pin on Michael Styles 11:22.<br />
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<b>C*4</b>: In a wild and entertaining contest, The Afterparty of Cecil Nyx and Chaz Lovely overcame three other teams to claim the victory. The other participants in the match included the teams of Michael Style & “Superstar” Shayne Hawke, The Incredible Hunks, and the tandem of Lucky Sabiti and HC Ryder.<br />
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<b>RT</b>: The unlikley Cecil Nyx victory tour continues. Hawke was great, playing up the fact that Nyx was too damn fat for him to power-slam. Nyx is a case study on achieving more with less and slowing things down. Because Nyx completely involves the crowd, when he is able to string together three moves in a row without screwing up, the crowd celebrates like their baby son just took his first steps. </div>
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<b>LT</b>: Pat Skillz threatens to throw everyone out into the snow if he doesn't get a match Darkko answers. To the surprise of absolutely no one (except Pat Skillz) Darkko beats Pat Skillz in 3:13. <br />
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<b>C*4</b>: The debuting Darkko pinned Pat Skillz in an open challenge. Skillz came to the ring before the match and announced that he was angry with C*4 management not giving him a match on the event, and said that as one of the owners of CRW that he would shut the show down, if he did not get a match. A second later, Darkko walked out of the back and was happy to oblige Skillz’s wish.<br />
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<b>LT</b>: Grudge Match - Mathieu St-Jacques beat Player UNO in 11:00 by submission. UNO wrestled one armed for most of the match.<br />
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<b>C*4</b>: In an extremely hard-hitting and competitive match, Mathieu St. Jacques forced Player Uno to submit to a cross-face armbar. Uno hurt his arm early in the match, and St. Jacques spend the majority of the contest focusing on the injured limb. Despite his best efforts, St. Jacques proved too much for Uno. Following the match, St. Jacques continued to pound on Uno, and to make matters worse, he was joined by Thomas Dubois in the assault. Both men celebrated following the beat down of Uno. The question now becomes, where does Thomas Dubois stand in relation to The Authority? It is well known that Dubois and St. Jacques are a well-known Quebec tandem. Has Dubois have found his way into the growing faction in C*4?<br />
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<b>LT</b>: In a shocking upset Ronin Josh Alexander beat Textbook Tyson Dux in 12:31. That wasn't in the Textbook!<br />
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<b>C*4</b>: In a highly competitive and extremely hard hitting contest, “Ronin” Josh Alexander continued his winning streak by pinning “Textbook” Tyson Dux. Both men hit each other with everything that they had. The finish came after Alexander nailed Dux with a roaring elbow to the back of Dux’s head, and knocked him out.<br />
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<b>RT</b>: Hey! Marc P.! Invest in a thesaurus or find a new way to say "competitive." Unfortunately Ronin Josh Alexander does nothing for me. This was a match that the wrestlers liked because of its technical excellence, but the crowd basically shat on it, because it felt like the two men were ignoring the crowd for most of the match. The other problem is that both wrestlers make good straight men working against crazier wrestlers, but the put the two together and it is like beige fighting vanilla. </div>
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<b>LT</b>: Sebastian Suave vs Vuxx Vellmar. Vuxx Velmarr could best be described as a crazy Québécois homeless guy who somehow knows Muay Thai. You can call this match #OccupySebastianSuave. Sebastian Suave believes the ref is neither fair nor balanced. (It's Mitt Romney vs The Rent Is Too Damn High.) Your winner is Sebastian Suave in 12:01, but really in a match like that there are no losers.<br />
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<b>C*4</b>: In the “Authority Open Challenge”, Sebastian Suave, pinned the debuting Buxx Belmar, in a very exciting match-up. Suave’s victory came with the assistance of his manager, Selezya Sparx. Selezya helped distract Bellmar several times during the match, and in the end, the double team of Suave and Sparx proved too much for ‘Dirty’ Buxx.<br />
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<b>RT</b>: I <strike>misheard</strike> screwed up during the show, it is Buxx Belmar not Vuxx Velmar. Buxx is actually the former Busty Love, but he has had a complete personality transplant and it works so so well. Every move that he makes now is character based and if your wrestling comes from a character and a compelling one to boot than you can't possibly go wrong. Someone to watch. </div>
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<b>LT</b>: C4 Championship Triple XXX SeXXX XXXpress SeXXXy Eddy vs The Emperor Stu Grissom. Senior moment it's The Emperor Stu Grayson not Grissom. #MyBad. The Voice wimps out when announcing SeXXXy Eddy says Eddy has five pounds in his trunks. Makes it sound like Eddy took a dump in his thong. The correct announcement naturally is "Five pounds of pure cock-meat!"<br />
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The Emperor mocks Eddy by stripping sloooooowly but Eddy counters with the Testicular Claw. Eddy is rocking a great White Man Fro tonight btw. The winner by submission and still C4 Champion The Emperor Stu Grayson (in 11:08). The lesson, as always, when wrestling Sexxxy Eddy make sure your manager is a pretty red head with big tits and no morals. <br />
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<b>C*4</b>: C*4 Champion, “The Emperor” Stu Grayson forced Sexxxy Eddy to submit, using his patented Dragon Sleeper. Once again, Authority valet, Selezya Sparx used her assets to help distract Eddy at various times throughout the match. Eddy fought hard, but in the end fell to the Champ.
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<b>RT</b>: Eddy literally got off a plane from Japan to wrestle in this match. He has every possible excuse to take the night off, but Eddy (as he so often does) brought it, rising to the level of his adversary and as Eddy does with his best opponents forcing Stu to step up his game as well. We too easily forget how much all of <strike>Quebec</strike> Canadian wrestling owes to Eddy. Without his gold lame thong, there is no Steenerico. </div>
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<b>LT</b>: Main Event Kevin Steen and Franky the Mobster vs Speedball Mike Bailey and RHINO! It is possible that my biggest contribution to independent wrestling may have been naming Mike Bailey "Speedball". Steen objects to Franky shaking hands with Speedball. Franky roars like a lion with a toothache "I'M NICE!!!" Steen does not object to Franky shaking hands with Rhino #HeMayBeLearning.
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<b>C*4</b>: In the Main Event, the team of “Speedball” Mike Bailey and Rhino claimed the win over “Mr. Wrestling” Kevin Steen and Franky the Mobster. Throughout the match, Steen avoided Rhino, several times tagging out to Franky. The finish saw all four men going at it, when Steen accidentally spit on Franky. Finally having enough, Franky laid Steen out with a sit-out chokebomb. Franky stormed out of the ring, leaving Steen alone. After a moment, Kevin got back to his feet, only to find himself knocked flat by a huge Gore by Rhino. Bailey capatalized and delivered a sky-high shooting star press on to Steen, and scored the victory.
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There are good silences in wrestling and there are poor silences in wrestling. When Kevin blew that snot-rocket and Bailey (incredibly) DODGED IT, the whole place went dead silent waiting to see what Franky would do. It was a fantastic Holy Shit! moment and based purely on character. Something that they had spent the whole match building up to.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">What's It Called?</span> <i><b>Haleiya</b></i><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Who Made It?</span> Written and Directed by A J Korkidakis<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Where Is It From?</span> Canada (Quebec)<br />
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<span style="color: red;">How Old Is the Director?</span> 23 (22 at time of production)<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Who Is the Director? </span>AJ Korkidakis is undoubtedly a product of the digital age - so much so that he rejects the title filmmaker in favour of the more contemporary "digital media artist". Though not the catchiest title, it's the only one that does justice to the variety of media he finds himself working in: AJ works professionally in film, video, motion graphics, animation, photography and design.<br />
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Ever since graduating from Concordia University with a degree in Communications in 2010, he has jumped head first into the Montreal media scene, refusing to pass up any opportunity to collaborate with others and learn new things. His clients have ranged from organizations like the Canadian government, the Montreal Police, various museums and university organizations all the way to local musicians like Kid Koala, the Sevens Project and Lunice. He also has had a successful run at web commercial contests, having won honours from companies like Kraft, Doritos, TMZ and others.<br />
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AJ's short films and music videos have screened internationally at festivals and have been broadcast on television, and his work has received two awards from the YoungCuts film festival. He is also a founding member of the CEASE Art Collective in Montreal, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting local arts.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">What Is It? </span> Animated Music Video Using Photo Collage<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Who Did the Music? </span> Sevens Project (featuring Patrick Watson)<br />
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<span style="color: red;">What Is It About? </span>Where do memories go when we don't want them anymore? The journey of an abandoned moment from the past, searching for a new home, told through a series of photographs and stop motion animation.
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<span style="color: red;">Why Did YoungCuts Play It? </span>The amount of work necessary to create this film is staggering. At 24 frames per second, and with each character in the film requiring sequential photographs, this film probably required more than 6,000 photos which all had to be kept in the exact order. It doesn't hurt that the sweet, simple existential story that it tells perfectly fits the mournful song that it was written for.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Filmmaker Statement </span>This was a profoundly personal project - though incredibly time consuming, the scale of the film meant it could be created nearly entirely on my own (with help from my very patient girlfriend.) This allowed the entire process to be very contemplative, an experience that was of course aided by the beautiful music I had as inspiration. The project was a nice break from the standard big crew video set - and this music video also embodies the apex of my love/hate relationship with stop motion animation.
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If you are a young filmmaker and would like to submit your short film to the 2012 YoungCuts Film Festival, <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/how_to_submit_to_the_2012_youngcuts_film_festival">HERE'S HOW</a>! We just announced a great <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/news/youngcuts_animation_prize">Animation Prize</a> which includes a free spot in a one day Animation Masterclass given by Disney animator <a href="http://www.andreasdeja.blogspot.com/">Andreas Deja</a> (designer of Scar from <i>The Lion King</i> amongst many other things.)<br />
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News and Notes from the 2012 YoungCuts Film Festival<br />
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If you like short films, <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/festival_audience_subscription_payment">support the YoungCuts Film Festival</a> and watch some great ones! If you are a young animator, learn how you can meet and learn from a Disney animator! And if you are a young filmmaker, learn how to <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/how_to_submit_to_the_2012_youngcuts_film_festival">submit your short film</a> to the Premiere Showcase for Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers!<br />
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1. <b>Become a Judge!</b><br />
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For the first time the YoungCuts Film Festival is allowing the public to watch films submitted to the festival and vote for their favourites. Based on this People's Choice voting, up to 20 films will be picked for our Top 100, with the remaining films picked by our traditional film juries.<br />
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For the price of a movie ticket, you can watch dozens of films and vote for your favourites!<br />
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Subscribers currently can watch films from the <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/selections_from_the_top_100_films_at_the_2011_youngcuts_film_festival">2011 YoungCuts Film Festival</a>. They can also watch and vote for films that were considered for last year's festival in our <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/january_2012_peoples_choice">Repechage or Second Chance</a> selection. And they can watch and vote for films that have already been submitted in our <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/early_bird_2012_peoples_choice">Early Bird</a> selection. We will be adding new film galleries every two weeks from now until July, so subscribers will have plenty of films to watch!<br />
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We will be featuring animated films submitted to the YoungCuts Film Festival on our web-site as part of our People's Choice voting. Based on that voting, YoungCuts will select ten films for our Animation jury to consider for a special Animation prize. The winner will have a free seat in a Shop Talk Masterclass given by Andreas Deja - a<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Sans Vera', Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> </span>one-day Animation Intensive Seminar, held in downtown Montreal (June 2, 2012). (The prize does not include travel and/or lodgings in Montreal, but this a rare opportunity to learn from a 30 year award-winning Disney veteran, and well worth the trip for any serious student of animation.)<br />
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3. <b>Submit Your Great Short Film Today!</b><br />
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So far this year, we have received submissions in more than ten languages, from more than twelve countries. Take advantage of our regular submission fees by <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/static/how_to_submit_to_the_2012_youngcuts_film_festival">submitting your short film for consideration</a> before March 31st. We do accept films after our regular deadline, but the later your film is submitted (and the longer it is) the less chance there is of it being picked. Remember that even if your film is not completed, you can still take advantage of our lower submission fees by submitting your film and reserving your film's spot in front of our judges!<br />
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The YoungCuts Film Festival is looking for Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers (25 and under).<br />
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This year, for the first time, we will be providing an opportunity for filmmakers and the public to help us select winners by voting on film submissions by filmmakers who are participating in our 2012 People's Choice program. Anyone interested in watching or voting for great films will be able to do so, for <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/subscriptions">the price of a theatre ticket</a>. Every month, beginning in January, we will have a new slate of films to vote on and at the end of the month, based on public voting, we will announce one film pre-selected to the Festival.</div>
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To see how it will work, courtesy of Canadian Heritage, here are a selection of <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/canadian_heritage_presents_great_short_films">great films from the Festival</a> that you can watch and vote on for free.
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Rather than just giving you the link to <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/jason-reitmans-anonymous-narcissists/">my latest article</a> on <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/">Sound on Sight</a>, I thought that I would include a few snippets of what didn't make it into the article and how I came to write it. <br />
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I kept trying to see <em>Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol</em> before Christmas, largely to watch the extended preview of Christopher Nolan's next Batman film, but it was always sold out. The first time that I tried to get in and failed, I went Christmas shopping instead. The second time, I went to see <em>Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows</em> and made it a double feature with Jason Reitman and Cody Diablo's follow-up to <em>Juno</em>: <em>Young Adult</em>. <br />
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All four films also have protagonists with an extraordinary facility for language. As Nick Naylor (without any humilty whatsoever) says, "<em>Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk</em>." Ryan Bingham talks people into believing that being fired is a good thing, telling them, "<em>Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's <strong>because </strong>they sat there that they were able to do it</em>." Juno, while still only 16, is constantly playing with language with a facility beyond her years. While Mavis Gary is nowhere near as good as Nick, Ryan or Juno at talking, she is easily their equal at writing, completing her final Waverly Prep novel during the course of the film despite being on a <em>Lost Weekend</em> type bender from the opening frame to the last. (One of the reasons that Roger Ebert may have identified so closely with Mavis Gary is that he admits that early in his writing career he was an alcoholic. When <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/09/20/f-ebert-roger-critic.html">Jian Ghomeshi asked him</a> if his alcoholism affected his professional life, Ebert proudly told him that even at the worst of his drinking, he never missed a deadline.) <br />
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The one part of the article that I regret is that it may be so clinical in its analysis that it may hide how much I admire Jason Reitman's talents as a writer and director and how much I like all of his films. Suffice it to say that I wouldn't waste the effort on crappy films or a crappy director. (Next up Udo Kier!)<br />
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I also admit to being a bit nervous about throwing in <em>Groundhog Day</em>, and full confession here: I originally remembered <em>Groundhog Day</em> as having been written and directed by Ivan Reitman, Jason's Dad, not Harold Ramis, a friend and collaborator of Ivan Reitman, but I felt that the point was worth making and made for a natural conclusion to the article, so what the hell. <br />
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The final thing that I couldn't cram into the article is how much Mavis Gary seems motivated by a fear of failure, scarred perhaps by her miscarriage of Buddys baby and her failed marriage of the (unnamed?) husband that she married after her break-up with Buddy. This fear of failure seems to be what has been causing her writer's block as the film starts and the fact that the Waverly Prep series has been cancelled, that she is supposed to be writing the final volume in the series, can be seen as another failure. That Mavis is the ghost writer for someone else's series rather than the creator of her own and her reliance on eavesdopped conversations by teens for her dialogue are also signs of her fear of failure. Her compulsive preparations for her encounters with Buddy; her donning of the war paint points a kind of self-loathing that seems to say that she is afraid of simply being who she is. Mavis' narcissism is not so much self-love as love of herself as some imagined ideal; who seh becomes rather than who she is. <br />
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One of the other reasons that Mavis hates Beth Slade is that Beth has no fear of failure, playing drums for the local rock band <em>Nipple Confusion</em> with little real talent, but great enthusiasm.<br />
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The same way that <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/">Sound on Sight</a> asked me to vote for my <a href="http://llakor.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-top-ten-films-of-2011.html">Top Ten Films for 2011</a>, they asked me to to vote for my Top Ten TV Shows for 2011, for <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/sos-staff-list-the-best-tv-of-2011/">their year-end list</a>. <br />
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As with films, I only picked TV shows that I actually saw. The biggest distinction here is that it is a lot harder to watch good TV (at least on TV) than good films. For every good movie that only seems to play at festivals or plays one week and then disappears, there are dozens of TV shows that only play on Pay-TV. A good rule of thumb was that if it played on HBO Canada, I wasn't able to watch it. This eliminated a ton of great shows: <em>Game of Thrones</em>, <em>Homeland</em>, <em>Walking Dead</em>, <em>Dexter</em>, <em>Breaking Bad</em>, <em>Curb Your Enthusiasm</em>, <em>Louie</em> and so on and so on. <br />
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One of the reasons that I started writing my <em><a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/category/tv/obsessive-compulsive-procedural-tv/">Obsessive, Compulsive, Procedural</a></em> column was that on broadcast TV about all that is currently programmed is reality TV, talent competitions, comedies and procedurals. Good thing I like procedurals. <br />
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All that kvetching aside, it was a very good year for TV and these were my favourites...<br />
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#10. <em>Harry's Law</em> (tie) <br />
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Not as good a season as the first one, but still good. Perhaps a victim of its own success - it was left alone by the network until it started drawing good ratings and the network moved in to make <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/21/harry_s_law_where_did_all_the_black_characters_go_.html">the show safe for primetime</a>. <br />
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Despite the fact that the show seems to have betrayed the very reason for its existence this year, I keep watching - if for no other reason than that it seems like David E. Kelley is inserting a sub-text about how miserable Harry is becoming being a regular criminal lawyer this year compared to her delight defending the neighbourhood poor last year. <br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/obsessive-compulsive-procedural-4-harrys-law/">My OCP Column about Harry's Law</a>.<br />
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#10. <em>Storage Wars</em> (tie)<br />
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This compulsively addictive A&E show has a deceptively simple premise: four characters - a mogul with an established store, a young turk (and his wife) with a new store, an experienced reseller with a penchant for taking gambles and an eccentric with a history of collecting - attend public auction of storae lockers, bid on the contents and then see if they made a profit or not. <br />
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I like <em>Auction Hunters</em> on Spike as well. <em>Auction Hunters</em> has a slightly better format, because it follows the Hunters from buying the locker to actually selling the merchandise, while <em>Storage Wars</em> counts a valuation as a sale. Auction Hunters has it right, because an item can be valued quite high, but what matters is how much will give you in cash for it now. <br />
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I am also a fan of <em>Pawn Stars</em> on History, but <em>Storage Wars</em> has the most engaging charactersof any of the shows, which puts it on this list. <br />
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#9. <em>Dragons' Den</em><br />
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The <em>Dragons' Den</em> series started in Japan as "<em>Manē no Tora</em>" or Tiger of Money. The basic idea is that entrepreneurs come on the show asking for money for their companies. The Dragons have the option of buying a share of the entrepreneurs company, but only if they put up the full amount of what is being asked.<br />
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There have been more than 20 versions around the world. The Canadian version on CBC is so good that two of the Dragons from that show (Kevin O'Leary and Robert Herjavec) also appear as Sharks in the U.S. version <em>Shark Tank</em>. <br />
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Compulsively watchable, <em>Dragons' Den</em> is a great mix of good ideas, bad ideas, cynicism, the occasional moment of capitalist benevolence and great clashes of personality. The ongoing feud between Kevin O'Leary and Arlene Dickinson is especially entertaining. Jim Treliving is also very good as the éminence grise of the show - probably the smartest man in the room, but also smart enough to let the others blather on for him. <br />
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#8. <em>Bones</em><br />
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One of the best of the long-running procedurals. David Boreanz has been a favourite of mine since <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>. <br />
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I am working on an OCP column about <em>Bones</em>, but it is worth watching every week if only for the parental advisory for "graphic forensic content". <br />
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#7. <em>The Amazing Race</em><br />
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The smartest and classiest reality TV show period. <br />
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Part of the fun in the program is watching the contestants struggle with the culture unfamiliarity and with the weird male obsession with not asking for directions. While physical fitness is helpful, mental fitness is much more important, proved this year when a team of senior citizens finished fifth destroying teams decades younger. <br />
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#6. <em>Young Justice</em><br />
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One of three cartoon procedurals on this list. <br />
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A smart show that deals head-on with the weird superhero habit of recruiting teen sidekicks and throwing them into danger. It uses huge amounts of more than 70 years worth of comic-book continuity, but does it in a non-intrusive way. <br />
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I am working on a column about the show now and it is turning into an EPIC monster.<br />
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#5. <em>Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated</em><br />
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One of the best procedurals currently on television is a half-hour cartoon that has been on television in one form or another since 1969 and was a major inspiration for what many (myself included) believe was the greatest serial drama in the history of television. The irony is that <em>Scooby-Doo</em> was solidly mediocre until the debut of <em>Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated</em> last summer.<br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/obsessive-compulsive-procedural-5-scooby-doo/">The rest of my OCP column on <em>Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated</em></a>. <br />
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#4. <em>Prime Suspect</em> <br />
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Unfairly crucified for being both too similar and not similar enough to the equally great British original, <em>Prime Suspect</em> had the second best cast on broadcast television. <br />
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The U.S. <em>Prime Suspect</em> has one terrible, undeniable problem: its title. Even though the U.S. <em>Prime Suspect </em>is closely based on the U.K. <em>Prime Suspect</em>, the title just doesn’t work. <br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/obsessive-compulsive-procedural-2-prime-suspect/">The rest of my OCP coulmn on <em>Prime Suspect</em></a>. <br />
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#3. <em>Archer</em> <br />
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The last of the cartoon procedurals on my list, <em>Archer</em> is a fast-talking, fast-thinking spy procedural that manages to borrow from the entire history of the espionage genre to give us something completely new. <br />
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It also neatly fits into a personal theory of mine that U.S. spies are almost always amateurs while British spies are almost always professionals, but that the reverse is frequently true for each countries detectives. <br />
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By amateur, I don't mean that Archer is incompetent (although he sometimes is) just that he holds his position not because of training, but because of nepotism and a willingness to do the job. <br />
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#2. <em>Doctor Who</em> <br />
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I have been a <em>Doctor Who</em> fan from my childhood days of watching Tom Baker on PBS and seething through the pledge drives when they would interrupt the action to try and sell us tote bags. <br />
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The latest Doctor, Matt Smith, is both the youngest and the oldest Doctor. His Doctor is funny, compassionate and much smarter than he looks. <br />
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While the latest season had its bumpy patches, it also gave fans some of the best TV moments of the year. <br />
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#1. <em>The Good Wife</em> <br />
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When CBS originally announced <em>The Good Wife</em> it seemed like a terrible idea. Make a TV series about the wife of a fallen politician? The one forced by circumstances and her own ambition to stand by his side and publicly forgive him? Even when doing so means doubling your public humiliation?<br />
Three years in,<em> The Good Wife</em> is by far the best broadcast network drama currently on TV and the only network show to be nominated for a Best Drama Emmy in 2011.<br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/obsessive-compulsive-procedural-3-the-good-wife-2/">The rest of my OCP column on <em>The Good Wife</em></a>.Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-59001957444813871162012-01-01T19:02:00.000-08:002012-01-26T16:32:31.040-08:00My Top Ten Films of 2011<strong><u>My Top Ten Films of 2011</u></strong><br />
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One of the reasons that I haven't been posting as much to this blog is that I have become a fairly regular contributor to <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/">Sound On Sight</a>. I guess I could use this blog to announce and link to <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/author/michael-ryan/">my articles there</a>, but I just never seem to get around to doing that. <br />
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I was asked to contribute to Sound On Sight's best films of the year voting which led to the site's <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/staff-list-the-30-best-films-of-2011-part-1/">top 30 films</a> <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/staff-list-the-30-best-films-of-2011-part-2/">of the year</a>. Since the site didn't publicize who voted for what, I thought that I would present my top ten films and justify my votes. <br />
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One quick note. I saw about 100 films last year, but many of the films that showed up on the Sound on Sight list I never saw, either because they only played at film festivals that I never attended or I haven't had time to see them yet. (In particular, I very much want to see <em>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy</em> and David Fincher's <em>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo</em> soon.)<br />
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#10 (tie) <em>Rango</em><br />
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The best animated film of the year - about a pet chameleon whose aquarium accidentally falls out of the family car on the highway and through a series of misadventures becomes sheriff for the animal city of Dirt. The action and animation (especially the film's many great chase scenes) is pitched somewhere between Chuck Jones' Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner cartoons and Wild Kingdom. <br />
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While I am not sure that Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp's insistence in taping all the dialogue with all actors present was completely necessary, I appreciate the effort. <br />
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Two scenes made me fall in love with this film. The first is a sequence where Rango meets an old cowboy named by the film "Spirit of the West" (Timothy Olyphant channeling Clint Eastwood so well I was convinced that it was Eastwood.) <br />
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The second great scene is when Rango finds out that Dirt uses water as currency with the town's reserves held in the town bank. This simultaneously links <em>Rango</em> to <em>Chinatown</em> and to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, reminding us that there is a long history of scoundrels posing as honest bankers, both in film and in real life. <br />
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#10 (tie) <em>Brawler</em><br />
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<em>Brawler</em> is a ferociously original film built on the bones of very old stories – some of the oldest in literary history. It is a part of a new sub-genre of films including <em>Bellflower</em> and <em>Another Earth</em> that are narratives about the most twisted, fucked-up relationships humanly possible, framed in the context of a genre narrative.<br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/fantasia-2011-brawler-is-a-ferociously-original-film-built-on-the-bones-of-very-old-stories/">Rest of the review</a><br />
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#9 <em>Contagion</em> <br />
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Steven Soderberg's film takes the epidemic genre (<em>Outbreak</em>, <em>The Andromeda Strain</em>) and ups the ante by looking at what would happen in the real world if the killer virus really got loose. The result is a tense thriller that plays in many ways like a tribute to the great disaster films of the 70s. Stars appear, get sick and die in ways both heroic and not. <br />
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The entire film seems inspired by Robert Wagner plunging through the glass in <em>The Towering Inferno</em> and falling to his fiery death. <br />
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#8 <em>The Adventures of Tintin</em><br />
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The <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/sound-on-sight-podcast-299-steven-spielbergs-the-adventures-of-tintin-and-war-horse/">Sound On Sight podcast</a> featuring me discussing <em>The Adventures of Tintin</em> and <em>War Horse</em>. <br />
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Did I just <strike>say</strike> write that <i>Rango</i> was the best animated film of 2011? <strike>I think</strike> I meant <i>The Adventures of Tintin</i>.<br />
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Spielberg reassures fans of Tintin right off the bat, first with an astonishing animated credit sequence that is filled with Easter Eggs of Tintin’s adventures that reminds fans – and introduces non-fans to – how awesome and influential Tintin is: he was the world’s favourite spy before James Bond; the world’s favourite explorer before Indiana Jones; the world’s favourite comic-book detective before Batman and the world’s favourite red-headed kid reporter before Jimmy Olsen.<br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/the-adventures-of-tintin-spielberg-brings-his-signature-blend-of-actionadventure-and-humor/">Rest of the review</a><br />
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#7 <em>13 Assassins (Director's Cut)</em><br />
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Upping the ante on Kurosawa's <em>Seven Samurai</em>, Miike gave us a story that instead of focusing on the protection of one village against bandits, featured the destruction of one village in the service of bringing to justice a bandit that preyed on the entire country. In the process, Miike both captured the zeitgeist of the moment and the frustration of the 99%. He also gave us the longest, bloodiest and most incredible action set-piece of the year - giving the metaphorical 99% revenge against the rapacious 1%. <br />
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#6 <em>Midnight in Paris</em><br />
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I am not a big believer in the traditional narratives about Woody Allen. Some of it is wrong in the "you are entitled to your wrong-headed opinion" sense and some of it is just plain wrong, full-stop, like the assertion that <em>Midnight in Paris</em> is Woody Allen's biggest box-office hit ever, passing <em>Hannah and Her Sisters</em>, which is wrong twice, because it completely ignores inflation. <br />
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Woody Allen has been putting out great movies year after year for more than 40 years. Sure, some have been better than others, but <em>Midnight in Paris</em> is not an aberration, it is part of a 40 year trend of excellence. <br />
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Which is not to say that <em>Midnight in Paris </em>didn't strike a chord. In a year when many films mined nostalgia, some to great effect, <em>Midnight in Paris</em> examined nostalgia to expose its weaknesses. <br />
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#5 <em>Bellflower</em><br />
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<em>Bellflower</em> is not the Armageddon we were promised.<br />
We were promised scarred tattooed bad-asses riding apocalypse bikes with biker sluts. We were promised Tina Turner in dominatrix gear. We were promised deserts filled with broken glass and rusted abandoned machinery. Most of all, we were promised Detroit muscle cars belching fire.<br />
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Well, one out of four will get you a steady paycheck in major league baseball.<br />
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<em>Bellflower</em> does give us the amazing fire-breathing Medusa muscle car, but instead of a physical Armageddon, it offers up an emotional apocalypse.<br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/fantasia-2011-bellflower-is-not-the-armageddon-we-were-promised/">Rest of the review</a>. <br />
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#4 <em>War Horse</em><br />
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The <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/sound-on-sight-podcast-299-steven-spielbergs-the-adventures-of-tintin-and-war-horse/">Sound On Sight podcast</a> featuring me discussing <em>The Adventures of Tintin</em> and <em>War Horse</em>. <br />
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An emotionally wrenching journey through the First World War as seen through the eyes of Joey, a Devon thoroughbred trained as a plough horse, who is sold to a British cavalry officer on the first day of World War One and serves in the war for a variety of owners until the Armistice. Along the way, Spielberg is able to play with his common themes of the collision between the natural world and the mechanical world, as well as the way that the monstrous presence of death is revealed by the movement of inanimate objects. (Particularly effective is Spielberg’s use of a windmill.)<br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/war-horse-an-emotionally-wrenching-story-that-will-break-your-heart/">Rest of the review</a>.<br />
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#3 <em>Super 8</em><br />
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One of the projects that I never got around to last year was an extended critique and defence of <em>Super 8</em> and my apparently controversial opinion that it is much more influnced by the films of Joe Dante than the films of Steven Spielberg, especially the neglected Joe Dante classic <em>Matinee</em>. <br />
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#2 <em>Rabies</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/the-very-best-of-fantasia-2011-michael-ryans-five-favourites/">My favourite film</a> from the Fantasia Film Festival this year, which is also my favourite film festival in the world (other than <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/">the one that pays my salary</a>.) I also saw <em>Bellflower</em>, <em>13 Assassins</em> and <em>Brawler</em> at Fantasia. <em><a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/fantasia-2011-ti-west-is-a-singular-genius-and-the-innkeepers-is-his-best-film-to-date-review-2/">The Innkeepers</a></em> by Ti West was on this list until very late - only dislodged by Steven Spielberg's two great late films. <br />
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My explanation for why I picked <em>Rabies</em> as my favorite film at Fantasia still stands:<br />
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This year at Fantasia we heard horror in an entirely new language. As Israel’s horror pioneers, Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado borrowed from the World of Exploitation Cinema, but struck off in an entirely new direction. <em>Rabies</em> is darkly funny and filled with rage. The very existence of the film has inspired the production of 3 new horror films from Israel and a follow-up from Keshales and Papushado that threatens to do to the kidnap genre what they have already done to the slasher genre.<br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/fantasia-2011-rabies-israels-first-horror-film/">My full review of <em>Rabies</em></a>. <br />
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#1 <em>Hugo</em><br />
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The <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/sound-on-sight-radio-296-the-muppets-hugo/">Sound on Sight podcast</a> featuring me discussing Hugo (and <a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/the-muppets-sensantional-inspirational-celebrational-muppet-ational-muppet-heaven/">The Muppets</a>).<br />
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<em>Hugo</em> is a love-letter to the history of cinema and particularly the very early work of Georges Méliès... The most eloquent and beautiful tribute to the power and history of film since <em>Cinema Paradiso</em>... Beyond Scorsese’s love of film, this is fantastic family film, part Boy’s Adventure, part Oliver Twist and part Jules Verne.<br />
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Fair warning about my full review. As originally written, I pointed out that most reviews of <em>Hugo</em> ended up being huge film nerdgasms, at which point my own review turned into a film nerdgasm. I was trying (clumsily) to point out that <em>Hugo</em> was designed to infect filmgoers with film nerdery. <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/suckerhowell">Simon Howell</a> cut that out in favour of when I just came out and said that that was what the film did. It reads better that way, but it does make me look like an incredible film geek. <br />
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Two other minor points about <em>Hugo</em> and my review...<br />
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One final piece of film evidence that points to <em>Hugo</em> being set in 1931 is <a href="http://thefilmstage.com/features/10-classic-films-you-must-watch-before-seeing-martin-scorseses-hugo/">René Clair</a>’s 1931 film <em>À Nous la Liberté</em>, which (depending on who you listen to) either predicted or influenced Charlie Chaplin's 1937 film <em>Modern Times</em>. <br />
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Finally, right after watching Hugo, I walked into Indigo and bought a very nice hardcover of <em>The Invention of Hugo Cabret</em>, but I didn't start reading it until after I had written and submitted my review. On the very first page of the novel, it tells us that the year is 1931. D'oh! Impressive that my detective work got the year right, but the actual answer was literally sitting at my elbow throughout my search. <br />
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<a href="http://www.soundonsight.org/hugo-a-virus-a-trojan-horse-concealed-within-a-boys-adventure-designed-to-infect-you-with-film-nerdery/">Rest of the review</a>.Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-81499429098190634622011-10-05T09:27:00.001-07:002011-10-05T09:27:54.941-07:002011 YoungCuts Film Festival Award Winners and Nominees<b><u>2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Award Winners and Nominees</u></b><br />
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Every year, the YoungCuts Film Festival staff review the work of more than 5, 000 filmmakers and watch more than 1, 000 films to pick our Top 100. From our Top 100, we pick our list of Top 10 films to honour with an award.<br />
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Anthony Boulay (<b><i>Fokker</i></b>), Colin Racicot, (<b><i>L'Invité</i></b>), A. J. Korkadakis (<b><i>Haleiya</i></b>)</td></tr>
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The following are the Award nominees and winners from the 2011 YoungCuts Film Festival:<br />
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TextbookVideos.com Award for Best Teen Film:<br />
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<b><i>Claret</i></b> by Izzy Traub (Canada)</div>
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<b><i>Common Ground</i></b> by Holly Fifer (Australia)</div>
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Virgin Radio 96 Award for Best Music Video:</div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Haleiya</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> by A.J. Korkidakis (QC)</span></div>
<b><i>Waterton Lakes – Dreamer</i></b> by Kevin Caners (Canada)<br />
<b><i>Wrecking Ball</i></b> by Guy Verge Wallace (Australia)<br />
<b><i>Break of Reality - Spectrum of the Sky</i></b> by S. V. Broadbent and Tami Tamar Sasson (USA)
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Tribute.ca Best Animated Film:<br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Le Fokker</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> by Anthony Boulay (QC)</span><br />
<b><i><a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=The_Girl_and_the_Fox">The Girl and the Fox</a></i></b> by Tyler Kupferer (USA)<br />
<b><i>The History of Denim</i></b> by Drew Roper (UK)<br />
<b><i>Icare et le Géant </i></b>by Simon Leclerc (QC)<br>
<b><i>Insecurity </i></b>by Mallory Mahar (USA)</div>
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En Primeur Award for Best Cast:<br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Something Wrong</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> by Michael Donaghy (UK)</span><br />
<b><i>Finding Soil</i></b> by Tavarius Eberhart (USA)<br />
<b><i>Lumiere dans la nuit</i></b> by Pierre-Luc Lafontaine (QC)<br />
<b><i>Bust</i></b> by Daniel Daigle (QC)<br />
<b><i>Daddy's Little Girl</i></b> by Shawn Gerrard (Canada)<br />
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MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best International Film:<br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Halbschlaf</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> (</span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">A Light Sleep</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)</span><br />
<b><i><a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=Castoffs">Castoffs</a></i></b> by Nathan Campbell (Australia)<br />
<b><i>Common Ground</i></b> by Holly Fifer (Australia)<br />
<b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_411006373">La Combi Borracha</a></i></b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_411006373"> (</a><b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_411006373">Drunken Bus</a></i></b><a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=La_Combi_Borracha">)</a> by Luis David Rojas (Mexico)
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YoungCuts.com Award for Best Editor:<br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=Diaspora">Diaspora</a></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> by Aadhi Vive (Canada)</span><br />
<b><i>Halbschlaf</i></b> (<b><i>A Light Sleep</i></b>) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)<br />
<b><i>En Route</i></b> by Colin Levy (USA/Canada)<br />
<b><i>Blacksmith</i></b> by Francis Martineau (QC)</div>
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YoungCuts Award for Best Quebec Film:<br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">L'Invité</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> by Colin Racicot (QC)</span><br />
<b><i>Le Fokker</i></b> by Anthony Boulay (QC)<br />
<b><i>Bust</i></b> by Daniel Daigle (QC)<br />
<b><i>Disconnected</i></b> by Alberto D'Onofrio (QC)<br />
<b><i>Blacksmith</i></b> by Francis Martineau (QC)<br />
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MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best Canadian Film:<br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">A Noble Cause</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> by Karl Kimmel (Canada)</span><br />
<b><i>L'Invité</i></b> by Colin Racicot (QC)<br />
<b><i>Bust</i></b> by Daniel Daigle (QC)<br />
<b><i>Diaspora</i></b> by Aadhi Vive (Canada)</div>
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<span id="goog_2101467319"></span><span id="goog_2101467320"></span>Tribute Magazine Award for Best Director:<br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">En Route</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> by Colin Levy (USA/Canada)</span><br />
<b><i>Halbschlaf</i></b> (<b><i>A Light Sleep</i></b>) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)<br />
<b><i>L'Invité</i></b> by Colin Racicot (QC)<br />
<b><i><a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=Dead_Grass_Dry_Roots">Dead Grass, Dry Roots</a></i></b> by Gabe Hohreiter (USA)<br />
<b><i>A Noble Cause</i></b> by Karl Kimmel (Canada)</div>
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Oasis HD Grand Prix Award for Best Film:<br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Dead Grass, Dry Roots</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> directed by Gabe Hohreiter, produced by John Negropontes (USA)</span><br />
<b><i>Halbschlaf</i></b> (<b><i>A Light Sleep</i></b>) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)<br />
<b><i>L'Invité</i></b> by Colin Racicot (QC)<br />
<b><i>A Noble Cause</i></b> by Karl Kimmel (Canada)<br />
<b><i>En Route</i></b> by Colin Levy (USA/Canada)</div>
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Congratulations to all the nominees and winners and thanks for their passion for filmmaking and their great films!</div>Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-10677007594689295202011-10-05T09:26:00.001-07:002011-10-05T09:26:42.880-07:002011 YoungCuts Film Festival Presents Oasis HD Best Film Award to Dead Grass, Dry Roots<b><u>2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Presents Oasis HD Best Film Award to <i>Dead Grass, Dry Roots</i></u></b><br />
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The YoungCuts Film Festival celebrated ten years of presenting "Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers" on the weekend. The Festival presented its' Top 100 films over 9 screenings at Cinema Guzzo Spheretech in St-Laurent on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The screenings included one presented as part of les journées de la culture attended by 250 enthusiastic high school students and a screening of the best young Quebec filmmakers sponsored by Canadian Heritage.<br />
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After the last screening, the Festival presented awards in eleven different categories:<br />
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TextbookVideos.com Award for Best Teen Film to <b><i>Untermensch</i></b> (<b><i>Subhuman</i></b>) by Michael Aloyan (USA)<br />
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Oasis HD Award for Best Documentary to <b><i>Finding Fathers</i></b> by France Costrel (USA/France)<br />
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Virgin Radio 96 Award for Best Music Video to <b><i>Haleiya</i></b> by A.J. Korkidakis (QC)<br />
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Tribute.ca Best Animated Film to <b><i>Le Fokker</i></b> by Anthony Boulay (QC)<br />
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En Primeur Award for Best Cast to <b><i>Something Wrong</i></b> by Michael Donaghy (UK)<br />
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MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best International Film to <b><i>Halbschlaf</i></b> (<b><i>A Light Sleep</i></b>) by Johannes Hartman (Switzerland)<br />
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YoungCuts.com Award for Best Editor to <b><i>Diaspora</i></b> by Aadhi Vive (Canada)<br />
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YoungCuts Award for Best Quebec Film to <b><i>L'Invité</i></b> by Colin Racicot (QC)<br />
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MyFilmmaker.com Award for Best Canadian Film to <b><i>A Noble Cause</i></b> by Karl Kimmel (Canada)<br />
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Tribute Magazine Award for Best Director to <b><i>En Route</i></b> by Colin Levy (USA/Canada)<br />
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Oasis HD Grand Prix Award for Best Film to <b><i>Dead Grass, Dry Roots</i></b> directed by Gabe Hohreiter, produced by John Negropontes (USA)<br />
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The <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=2011_Award_Winners">full list</a> of our Winners and Nominees can be found on the YoungCuts web-site.<br />
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Montreal Gazette columnist Bill Brownstein praised many of these films in his <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Young+Cuts+Festival+2011+Exceptional+work+shows+floundering+industry/5478634/story.html">Friday column</a>:<br />
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The YoungCuts Film Festival would not be possible without the generous support of its sponsors, especially our presenting sponsor Oasis HD.<br />
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Our other sponsors include Canadian Heritage, Tribute Magazine, En Primeur and Tribute.ca, Jarislowsky Fraser limited, Virgin Radio 96, 24 Heures and the Montreal Mirror, TextbookVideos.com, MyFilmmaker.com, Sixforces, the City of Montreal and the Bureau du cinéma et de la télévision de Montréal. <br />
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We are pleased to team with charity Leave Out Violence to raise money and provide opportunities to encourage young people to choose art instead of violence as a way of expressing themselves.<br />
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With our 10th Anniversary Festival in the books, the YoungCuts Film Festival will now begin preparing for our <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=2012_YCFF">2012 edition</a>. Every year we evaluate the work of more than 5000 young filmmakers and watch more than 1000 films to pick our Top 100.<br />
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<b>About the YoungCuts Film Festival </b><br />
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Founded in 2001, the YoungCuts Film Festival’s goal is to advance the careers of up-and-coming filmmakers. This international festival selects the best independent short films produced by young people 25 and under.<br />
HYPERLINK "http://www.youngcuts.com" www.youngcuts.com<br />
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Source : Jay Moulton, Chairman, YoungCuts Film Festival<br />
Information: Michael Ryan, Festival Director, YoungCuts Film Festival, 514-285-4591, mike@youngcuts.comMichael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-13499650285781678562011-09-26T10:08:00.001-07:002011-09-26T10:08:54.391-07:002011 YoungCuts Film Festival Selection: Twilite – Fire<u><b>2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Selection</b></u><br />
<i><b>Twilite – Fire</b></i>
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The YoungCuts Film Festival is pleased to announce that it has selected Marcin Mikulski's short film <i><b>Twilite – Fire</b></i> as one of our Top 100 International Short Films for 2011. The film is also shortlisted for consideration as Best Music Video.
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<i><b>Twilite – Fire</b></i><br />
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<i><b>Directed <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">and</span></span> Written <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">by</span></span> </b></i>Marcin Mikulski<br />
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This music video is the first film that we have ever played from Poland.<br />
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It's a sharp little narrative about the permanence of the past.<br />
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It manages to comment on memory, the past and the environment without using a speck of dialogue (beyond the lyrics of the song).<br />
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<b>Runtime</b>: 2 min: 34 sec<br />
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<b>Completion</b>: September 2010<br />
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<b>County of Origin</b>: Poland<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: The main character wants to change his life so he packs all his stuff and begins his travels.
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<b>Précis</b>: Le personnage principal veut changer sa vie pour qu'il l'emballage de tout son matériel et de commencer son voyage.
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<b>Director's Statement</b>: The main character wants to change his life. So he packs all his stuff in a big sailor bag and begins to travel. When he finally find his destination, he digs a hole and throws all his things in the hole. He leaves, but his personal things don't let him get very far. It's complicated, You just have to see it ;-)<br />
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<b>Parole du Réalisateur</b>: Le personage principal veut changer sa vie. Alors, il l'emballage de tout son matériel dans un sac marin grand et commencer à Voyage. Quand il trouve enfin sa destination, il creuse un trou et de jeter toutes ses croit le trou. Nous s'en va mais sa persone les choses ne veulent pas le laisser aller très loin. C'est compliqué, Il suffit de voir ;-)<br />
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<b>Filmmaker Age</b>: 25<br />
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<b>Cinematography</b> and <b>Post Production</b> by: Maciej Twardowski<br />
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The 2011 YoungCuts Film Festival begins on Friday, September 30th at <a href="http://www.cinemasguzzo.com/4-cinemas-horaire-Mega-Plex_Spheretech_14.html">Guzzo Spheretech</a>. The <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=2011_Saturday_5PM">Animation and Music Screening</a> is Saturday, October 1st at 5PM and concludes with a presentation of an award for Best Animated Film and Best Music Video.
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<br />Michael "Llakor" Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414432195431671968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988056954244413252.post-727112650538018102011-09-10T12:22:00.000-07:002011-09-17T09:46:02.692-07:00Oasis HD Grand Prix Screening (Best of the Fest) at the YoungCuts Film Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Oasis HD</b> Screening<br />
for the Tenth Anniversary <b>YoungCuts Film Festival</b><br />
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Featuring the best films of the Festival by young filmmakers from Quebec, Canada, the United States, Switzerland and France. <br />
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<b>Sunday, 2 October, 2011 9PM/21h </b><b>dimanche, le 2 octobre, 2011</b><br />
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15 Films, Approximately 107 Minutes<br />
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<b>1.</b> <i><b>Fokker, Le</b></i> (QC) Anthony Boulay, Animation, 1:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: One quiet evening at the aircraft museum, a rambunctious little boy decides to steal a plane to go flying in the clouds.<br />
Une soirée tranquille au musée de l'aviation, un petit garçon turbulent décide de voler un avion du musée d'aviation pour se promener dans les nuages.<br />
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<b>2. <i>Finding Soil</i></b> (USA) Tavarius Eberhart, Drama, 7:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Sometimes it's hard to grow without a strong foundation. <br />
Parfois c'est dur à grandir sans une forte fondation.<br />
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<b>3. <i>Patrick the Artist</i></b> (Canada) Aidan Jeans, Documentary, 4:30<br />
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<b>4. <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=Il_Etait_Encore_Une_Fois"><i>Il Était Encore Un Fois</i></a></b><i> </i>(QC) Roxanne Baril-Monfette, Animation, 1:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Mister Fox finally gets his cheese only to find that Mister Crow has encased it in a metal container!<br />
Maître Renard, parvenant à obtenir son fromage tant désirée, ne se douta point que Maître Corbeau, cette fois-ci, le lui offrirait dans son emballage métallique.
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<b>5. <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=Diaspora"><i>Diaspora</i></a></b> (Canada) Aadhi Vive, Drama, 6:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Hard work, a good education and a big dream sound like the sure ingredients for success in starting a better life in a new country. But are they?<br />
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<b>6. <i>Insecurity</i></b> (USA) Mallory Mahar, Animation, 1:00
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<b>7. <i>En Route</i></b> (Canada/USA) Colin Levy, Drama, 8:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: A slight deviation in course - a fortuitous decision in child's play - can spawn a ripple effect that will change the trajectory of your life.<br />
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<b>8. <i>Extraordinary Fight of Atticus Walker and the Monster in his Mind, The</i></b> (USA) Michael Karman, Comedy, 13:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: You know that voice? The one that reminds you of your every insecurity? For Atticus Walker, this voice is 6 feet tall, obese, furry, and green.<br />
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<b>9. <i>Amis, Les</i></b> (QC) Olivier Brisson, Animation, 2:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Friendship.<br />
De l'amitié.<br />
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<b>10. <i>Best Christmas Ever, The</i></b> (USA) Kai Winikka, Comedy, 2:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Santa Claus comes down a chimney but only two of the three children were good enough to receive presents - the latter gets a surprise.<br />
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<b>11.<i> Invité, L'</i> </b>(QC) Colin Racicot, Drama, 13:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Antoine, a lonely fisherman, makes an unusual encounter while fishing on the frozen lake.<br />
Antoine, un pêcheur solitaire, fait une rencontre inhabituelle en allant pêcher sur le lac gelé <br />
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<b>12. <i>Halbschlaf </i></b>(Switzerland) Johannes Hartmann, Drama, 8:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Confusion through dream and reality...<br />
Une confusion du rêve et de réalité. <br />
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<b>13. <i>Collection of Walt, A</i></b> (USA) Greg Yagolnitzer, Animation, 3:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Walt struggles with everyday tasks.<br />
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<b>14. <i>Tempus Fugit</i></b> (QC/France) Fred Grivois, Comedy, 11:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: We do not negotiate with terrorists. Unless there is money to be made...<br />
On ne négocie pas avec les terroristes. Sauf s'il y a du blé en jeu…<br />
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<b>15. <a href="http://www.youngcuts.com/?q=Dead_Grass_Dry_Roots"><i>Dead Grass, Dry Roots</i></a></b> (USA) John Negropontes, Drama, 24:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: A peaceful cattle rancher must abandon his pacifist beliefs in order to save the life of a young man condemned to hang.<br />
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<b>MyFilmmaker.com Screening</b><br />
for the Tenth Anniversary <b>YoungCuts Film Festival</b><br />
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Featuring films by young filmmakers from Quebec, Canada, the United States, Singapore, Israel, Mexico and Australia. <br />
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<b>Sunday, 1 October, 2011 7PM/19h dimanche</b><b>, le 1 octobre, 2011</b><br />
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13 Films, Approximately 110 Minutes<br />
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<b>1. <i>Hunger Pains</i></b> (Canada) Oliver Lauder, Short, 1:00
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<b>2. <a href="http://youngcuts.blogspot.com/2011/06/2011-youngcuts-film-festival-selection_21.html"><i>Castoffs</i></a></b> (Australia) Nathan Campbell, Short, 4:30
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<b>Synopsis</b>: A homeless robot wanders the city streets, ignored by others; lacking
any purpose, he spends his time collecting the strange, glowing shards
that accumulate in back alleys and laneways.<br />
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<b>3. <i>Common Ground</i></b> (Australia) Hollie Fifer, Documentary, 14:00<br />
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<b>4. <i>Choking Hazard</i></b> (Australia) Ella Macintyre, Short, 2:00<br />
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<b>5. <i>Sun and Moon, The</i></b> (USA) J. J. Rubin, Short (Teen), 5:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: When Moses is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, his reaction is not like most.<br />
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<b>6. <i>Lemons and Lemonade</i></b> (Canada) Milton Ng, Comedy, 6:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: An entrepreneurial eight year old with a lemonade
monopoly finds that business sense only goes so far when it comes to
selling himself to the girl next door.<br />
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<b>7. <i>Rusted Pyre</i></b> (Canada/USA) Laurence Cohen, Drama, 13:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Ginny and Sally venture out in the middle of Winter a ways out of town to endure a rite of passage in a secluded, abandoned old car.<br />
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<b>8. <i>Morning Mrs. Meth</i></b> (Israel) Eli Arenson, Drama, 4:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Fictional portrayal of a young Methamphetamine Abuser.<br />
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<b>9. <a href="http://youngcuts.blogspot.com/2011/06/2011-youngcuts-film-festival-selection_30.html"><i>Summer & Its Rain</i></a></b> (Singapore) Joshua Simon, Drama, 10:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: In a world that has lost its' color, a young woman uses music to restore vibrancy to her life.<br />
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<b>10. <i>Daddy's Little Girl</i> </b>(Canada) Shawn Gerrard, Drama, 14:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: 8 year-old Katie Halson struggles to keep the secrets of her white supremacist father as police investigators search their home.<br />
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<b>11. <i>1000 Things</i></b> (Canada) Bryce Bladon, Short, 3:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: When Chris and Carla find out their best friend Josh is about to die, they set out to help him complete his bucket list.<br />
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<b>12. <i>Récits d'Hyperinflation</i></b> (QC) Karim Haroun and Julien Cadieux, Drama, 12:00<br />
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<b>13. <a href="http://youngcuts.blogspot.com/2011/06/2011-youngcuts-film-festival-selection_22.html"><i>Combi Borracha, La</i></a></b> (Mexico) Luis David Rojas, Drama/Comedy, 19:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Alexis drives the 'Drunken Bus', a service that
provides transportation for young inebriated party-goers, with the
purpose of preventing them from driving under the influence, until he meets Miguel, the most obnoxious, perverted and
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<b>TextbookVideos.com Teen </b>Film Screening<br />
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Featuring films by teen filmmakers from Quebec, Canada and the United States. <br />
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<b>Sunday, 2 October, 2011 5PM/17h </b><b>dimanche, le 2 octobre, 2011</b><br />
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14 Films, Approximately 101 Minutes<br />
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<b>1. <i>Sebastian's Adventure</i></b> (USA) Nat Motulsky, Animation, 2:00<br />
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<b>2. <i><a href="http://youngcuts.blogspot.com/2011/07/2011-youngcuts-film-festival-selection_19.html">MeJohn</a></i></b> (USA) Phillip Bernardino-Gomez, Documentary, 5:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: An eccentric man goes through life collecting strange items such as
pantyhose, his own brand of miniature cars, and anything else he
believes that has a special value to it. <br />
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<b>3. <i>Adventures of Floating Boy and Flying Girl, The</i></b> (USA) Jimmy Peguero, Animation, 5:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: A stop motion fairytale. Floating boy floats through the world, unloved and unnoticed, until he meets flying girl, another lonely soul.<br />
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<b>4. <i>Cut</i></b> (USA) Molly Cinnamon, Short, 4:00<br />
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<b>5. <i>Freeriders</i></b> (USA) Troup Wood, Documentary, 7:00<br />
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<b>6. <i><a href="http://youngcuts.blogspot.com/2011/07/2011-youngcuts-film-festival-selection_17.html">Send Me to Babylon</a></i></b> (USA) Jeremiah James, Short, 3:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: Only a few humans remain... Who will survive? <br />
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<b>7. <i>Play Time</i></b> (USA) Roxy Shih, Drama, 5:30<br />
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<b>8. <i>An Inconvenient Route</i></b> (Canada) Rocket Lai, Animation, 3:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: A polar bear gets tired of melting icebergs in the Arctic and sets out to move to Toronto, but finds it in an even worse state than the North Pole.<br />
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<b>9. <i>Claret</i> </b>(Canada) Izzy Traub, Drama, 11:00<br />
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<b>10. <a href="http://youngcuts.blogspot.com/2011/07/2011-youngcuts-film-festival-selection_20.html"><i>Onion Skin</i></a></b> (Canada) Joseph Procopio (Drama) 12:30<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: A high school student turns heads when he decides to avoid
text-messaging a girl in this comedy-turned-romance about the power of
letter writing.<br />
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<b>11. <i>Suffocation</i></b> (USA) Nick Lieberman (Drama/PSA) 2:00<br />
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<b>12. <a href="http://youngcuts.blogspot.com/2011/07/2011-youngcuts-film-festival-selection_18.html"><i>36, The</i></a></b> (USA) Nic Weinfeld (Drama) 7:00<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>: The best of us act humanely no matter the circumstances.<br />
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<b>13. <i>Untermensch</i> (<i>Subhuman</i>)</b> (USA) Michael Aloyan (Drama) 12:00<br />
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<b>14. <i>I Love Burgz</i></b> (QC) Leave Out Violence Filmmakers (Documentary) 24:00<br />
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