OH LUCY - Victoria Film Festival 2018

Boys, girls, women, men, romance, sex, joy, breakup, sorrow.  Universal themes, old as time. We "fall in love," and we do ridiculous things.  We get hurt, so we hurt others. 

OH LUCY lets us peer into a funhouse mirror.  We can laugh out loud.  We can yell "NO!, what are you doing?!"  Maybe we can make some peace with ourselves, our families, our friends.  Or, like Lucy, we can simply let go of what no longer serves us.

OH LUCY screens Sunday February 11th at 6:30 pm at The Vic Theatre.  You can buy tickets HERE.

Cardinals - Victoria Film Festival 2018

For the #metoo initiated it's often, if not always, a damned if you do and damned if you don't scenario. 

At the risk of giving too much away, suffice it to say that we can only hope the day will arrive when the Cardinals storyline (and those like it) will be relegated to the annals of history.

Cardinals screens Friday February 2nd at 9 pm and Sunday February 11th at 9 pm at SilverCity.

You can search for tickets HERE.

Edie - Victoria Film Festival 2018

If you're elder, fit, and able, with too many years in an abusive relationship behind you, why not choose an adventure in the Scottish Highlands over a forced trip to a nursing facility?  Sometimes you've just got to follow your heart and trust that the universe will help you be where your soul needs to be.  And maybe, like Edie, serendipity will gift you in sometimes confusing, but often amazing ways.

This film is inspiring, encouraging, nurturing.  Show me an elder person who doesn't want to hear a younger person say "if only I was a bit older."  Yeah, the plot is a bit faulty and unrealistic in parts, but it's fun to witness Edie's determination, real or imagined.

Edie screens at the Victoria Film festival Friday February 9th at 7 pm at Sidney's Star Theatre, and Saturday February 10th at 6:30 pm at The Vic Theatre.

You can buy your tickets HERE.

AUDIO: Stephen Campanelli, Director, 'Indian Horse'

Stephen Campanelli’s Indian Horse received the Calgary Film Festival’s Audience Award for Narrative Feature, and was People’s Choice winner at last year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. Indian Horse is an adaptation of the Richard Wagamese’s widely acclaimed novel about an Ojibway boy, and his abduction into Canada’s residential school system.

Campanelli is a Canadian director, and long-time Hollywood camera operator, working within legendary actor/director and producer Clint Eastwood’s rarefied filmmaking circle. Among others, he’s collaborated with Eastwood on the films: ‘Million Dollar Baby’. ‘Gran Torino’, ‘Sully’, and their latest, and 21st collaboration, ’15:17 to Paris’. Indian Horse is Campanelli's second film in the director’s chair, following 2015’s ‘Momentum’.

CLICK HERE FOR A 20 MINUTE RADIO INTERVIEW


Indian Horse screens Sunday February 11th at 6:15 pm at SilverCity.  Buy your tickets HERE.

Romantic Road - Victoria Film Festival 2018

If ever a couple of elder friends tell you they're going to circumnavigate the Indian subcontinent in their 1936 Rolls Royce, grab your camera and film the heck out of their journey. That's what Oliver McGarvey did.  This is his first feature film, and it's fantastic.

Be thankful for the opportunity to live vicariously along this great adventure.  If Oliver hadn't been there to document, it's doubtful some of these exploits would be believed.  It's certain that it was a once in a lifetime enterprise, something that can never quite be reenacted. Definitely a story Rupert and Jan's family will pass along for many generations.

Romantic Road screens Friday February 9th at 6:15 pm at SilverCity and Sunday February 11th at 3:30 pm at Sidney's Star Cinema.

Watch a trailer by going to this WEBSITE HERE.


And buy your tickets HERE.

The Swan (Svanurinn) - Victoria Film Festival 2018

Sometimes the best way to survive is to "just get used to it."  Other times we go against the grain and reject what doesn't make sense.  It's not easy to forge that independent path, especially if you're a young girl living in a remote environment, isolated from a supportive peer group.

Sol's journey reminds us to stay true to ourselves, to hold onto courageous youthful insight.  Because perceptions are unique to the individual and where some experience monsters, others find only beauty.

The Swan screens Monday February 5th at 6:30 pm at The Vic Theatre.  You can buy tickets HERE. 

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin - Victoria Film Festival 2018

It's unlikely that the culture of San Francisco circa 1970 will ever exist again anywhere ever.  Young Armistead Maupin found his way there, he found himself there, as did so many beautiful creative souls.  And together they changed the world.

If you relate to the current movement towards a more fluid sexual identity you'll want to know Armistead.  After you watch this film, you will.

If you feel like you already know Armistead, you've got this film on your list of must sees at this year's festival.  

Whoever you are, you won't be disappointed.

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin screens Sunday February 4th at 7 pm at Sidney's Star Theatre, and Tuesday February 6th at 9 pm at SilverCity.