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Two Brides: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage

When Linda, an outspoken lesbian psychotherapist, decided that George, a bulldozer-driving transsexual, was the woman for her, Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage was born….

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New filmmakers have their day

The 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival’s Trade Forum will feature a new and (some might suggest) improved version of the annual New Filmmakers Day….

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First Tibetan feature highlights VIFF

The 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival, a 17-day extravaganza running from Sept. 24 to Oct. 10, kicks off with the first-ever Tibetan-language feature The Cup, with which eminent lama Khyentse Norbu makes his directorial debut. The comedy follows two soccer-obsessed monks…

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Shirley Pimple

Montreal filmmaker Demetrios Est de l’acropolis will premier his 17-year labor of love Shirley Pimple and the John Wayne Temple at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. Produced by Multi-Monde Productions, Est de l’acropolis began filming the $1.2-million feature in 1982,…

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DayDrift: dealing with the past

Born on a cocktail napkin shortly after writer, director and coproducer Ryan Bonder chased down his soon-to-be wife in Europe, DayDrift makes its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival….

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Two Brides: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage

When Linda, an outspoken lesbian psychotherapist, decided that George, a bulldozer-driving transsexual, was the woman for her, Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage was born….

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WIFF hit Stuff unspools at VIFF

After two sold-out screenings and heaps of praise at the Montreal World Film Festival, James Dunnison is taking his new feature Stuff to the Vancouver International Film Festival….

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Van. fighting supply crisis

By all accounts, this summer was yet another business blockbuster for the Vancouver film and television industry. But with the unprecedented business has come unprecedented unease about the city’s ability to absorb the work….

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3rd annual producers roundtable

At this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, 57 of the 114 films in the Canadian Images program hail from b.c. – a staggering figure that is the first quantitative proof of what the grassroots industry here has believed for years. The…

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Boom putting locations at risk

The residents of Queens Park in New Westminster have grown used to, or even a bit weary of, the carnivals of trucks and herds of crews that come to their neighborhood with repeated production work….

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Danforth’s sci-fi guys add series, larger features to the roster

Toronto’s Danforth Studios (formerly pna/Greystone Entertainment) is widening its focus from low-budget sci-fi films geared mostly for foreign markets to include larger-scale features and tv series….