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Catch The Wave: Interview With Caitlyn Sponheimer On Wild Goat Surf!

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We spoke via Zoom with Caitlyn Sponheimer, the writer, director, producer, and co-star of the coming-of-age drama Wild Goat Surf, now playing in limited release, distributed by Vortex Media. Wild Goat Surf Synopsis Set in a rundown Penticton, Okanagan Valley RV park during the summer of 2003, Goat, a surfing-obsessed, thirteen-year-old skater girl, navigates the […]

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Interview Jonas Chernick on The Burning Season (Podcast Cover)

Interview: Jonas Chernick Dives Into The Burning Season

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I spoke via Zoom with producer, writer, and star Jonas Chernick about The Burning Season The Burning Season Synopsis Alena and her husband spend a summer up at Luna Lake Resort. JB runs the place. He and Alena begin a dangerous and passionate secret affair. Summers only. That’s the rule. Until they break it. A

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The Burning Season – Canadian Film Fest 2024

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A passionate affair begins between two friends who shared a traumatic event in The Burning Season. Alena (Sara Canning) and her husband Tom (Joe Pingue) arrive at the Luna Lake Resort for the wedding of their longtime friends JB (Jonas Chernick) and Poppy (Tanisha Thammavongsa). However, disaster strikes during the reception when JB, high on

The Burning Season – Canadian Film Fest 2024

WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) – Canadian Film Fest 2024

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A family copes with the generational trauma of being residential school survivors in WaaPaKe (Tomorrow). Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin is a member of the Attawapiskat First Nation, whose mother Rita is a residential school survivor. Jules interviews Rita and her eldest son Asivak, along with Joseph of the Kwantlen First Nation and Maisie of the

WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) – Canadian Film Fest 2024

Valley of Exile – Canadian Film Fest 2024

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Two Syrian sisters try to start a new life in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley in Valley of Exile. In 2013, at the start of the Syrian war, sisters Rima (Maria Hassan) and Nour (Hala Hosni) fled their home in Homs to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. The sisters find themselves locked out of the apartment arranged

Valley of Exile – Canadian Film Fest 2024

Wild Goat Surf – Canadian Film Fest 2024

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A teenage girl dreams of surfing from an Okanagan RV Park in Wild Goat Surf. Rell Anderson (Shayelin Martin), who prefers going by the nickname “Goat,” is a 13-year-old skater girl, living at an RV Park in the Okanagan town of Penticton. While her mother Jane (Caitlyn Sponheimer) works multiple jobs to save money for

Wild Goat Surf – Canadian Film Fest 2024

With Love and a Major Organ – Canadian Film Fest 2024

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The Review Was Originally Published as Part of My Coverage of Fantasia 2023 A lonely woman gives her heart to the man of her dreams in With Love and a Major Organ. In the not-so-distant future, every aspect of people’s lives is controlled by an app called LifeZapp, which consequently makes most people devoid of

With Love and a Major Organ – Canadian Film Fest 2024

Place of Bones – Canadian Film Fest 2024

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A widow and her daughter have a standoff against a gang of ruthless outlaws in Place of Bones. In 1876, Pandora Meadows (Heather Graham) lives with her daughter Hester (Brielle Robillard) on their isolated ranch 95 miles from the nearest town. One day, Hester discovers the gravely injured body of Calhoun (Corin Nemec), a bank

Place of Bones – Canadian Film Fest 2024

Hailey Rose – Canadian Film Fest 2024

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A young woman is tricked into returning to his estranged family in Nova Scotia in Hailey Rose. A decade ago, Hailey (Em Haine) left her home in Nova Scotia after her mother Olga (Kari Matchett) blamed Hailey for the sudden death of her father Roger (Billy MacLellan). One day, Hailey receives a frantic call from

Hailey Rose – Canadian Film Fest 2024

Doubles – Canadian Film Fest 2024

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A Trinidadian street vendor travels to Toronto and reluctantly reconnects with his estranged father in Doubles. Dhani (Sanjiv Boodhu) is not happy with his life in Trinidad, having inherited the doubles stand from his father Ragbir (Errol Sitahal), who moved to Canada and never returned. When Dhani’s mother Sumintra (Leela Sitahal) is robbed at the

Doubles – Canadian Film Fest 2024