Toronto-based director Andrew Currie’s feature The Invisibles will make its world premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, Calif.

The fantasy drama, co-written by Currie and Colin Aussant, is produced by Quadrant Motion Pictures and Resolute Films. The film will make its debut on Sunday (March 10).

Quadrant’s Mary Anne Waterhouse and Resolute Films founder Lee Kim are producers. Executive producers include Tim Blake Nelson, Will Machin, Clay Pecorin, Carrie Mudd and Chrisopher J. Danton.

The Invisibles (pictured), starring Blake Nelson, follows a man who physically starts to disappear into a dimension where others like him co-exist, unnoticed by the real world. The cast includes Bruce Greenwood, Nathan Alexis and Gretchen Mol.

The film was financed by Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, Rainmaker Films and LevelFILM. LevelFILM is distributing the film in Canada, and XYZ Films is handling U.S. sales, with foreign sales being represented by Metro Entertainment.

The Cinequest Film Festival runs from March 7 to 17.

LIFT announces participants for Expanding North residency

Scarborough filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Niya Abdullahi and Norwegian visual artist Anette Gellein have been selected as the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto’s (LIFT) Expanding North residents for 2024.

Expanding North brings together artist-run film labs and cultural institutions that “support the production, education and dissemination of expanded cinematic art within the Nordic region and beyond.” The program is a collaboration between LIFT, Latvia’s Baltic Analog Lab, Finland’s Filmverkstaden and Norway’s Polar Film Lab.

The residency, which runs from March to May, will provide the participants the opportunity to develop their technical skills and knowledge related to analogue filmmaking, using equipment and facilities at LIFT. They will also produce a work of expanded cinema, according to a news release. Both residents are joining LIFT for a four-week period, with public presentations to be announced in the coming weeks.

Abdullahi’s work has screened at the Toronto International Film Festival Next Wave, Nordisk Ungdom Film Festival, NFFTY, Black Film Festival Zurich, and Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, among others. She was a 2021 Hot Docs Accelerator Fellow. Abdullahi is also the founder of Habasooda, a collective dedicated to sharing a diverse range of Muslim narratives.

Gellein works with film, sound, textile, drawing and performance in their visual art. Their recent projects include the film Love and Pain and Greed and Lust (2023). Their work has previously been shown in places such as the Oberhausen Film Festival, Kunstners Hus Kino, TENT Rotterdam, Lydgalleriet in Bergen and Arctic Moving Image Festival.

Tamara Segura’s doc to premiere at Miami Film Festival

Newfoundland and Labrador writer-director Tamara Segura’s National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary Seguridad will make its world bow at the Miami Film Festival next month.

The feature doc is produced by former NFB executive producers Annette Clarke and Rohan Fernando, who are credited as executive producers alongside NFB’s John Christou. Seguridad is competing for the Jordan Ressler First Feature Award and will make its premiere on April 6.

In the documentary, Segura uncovers a family secret that pushes her to explore her father’s troubled past and its connection to the Cuban Revolution in Seguridad. Segura is also the film’s narrator.

The Miami Film Festival will take place from April 5 to 14.

Image courtesy Quadrant Motion Pictures and Resolute Films