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THE STEPS

An uptight New Yorker and his party girl sister visit a lake house to meet their dad's new cocktail-wife waitress and her rough-around-the-edges kids. When the parents announce they're adopting a new step child to bring the family together, it has the opposite effect.

Jeff Stabler, a former financial planner from New York, has lost everything: his apartment, his job, and his fiancée. When he learns that his wealthy dad, Ed, has eloped with a fifty-year-old cocktail waitress from Timmins, Ontario, he is not impressed. Still, he agrees to accompany his party-girl sister, Marla, to an opulent lake house in Northern Ontario to meet their new step family and hear their dad’s big announcement. Given the changing family dynamics, Jeff’s sure the announcement has to do with Ed’s finances.

Jeff and Marla arrive at the lake house to find their conservative dad in the midst of an oily, tantric massage session with his bride, Sherry. And it’s all downhill from there. Sherry’s kids arrive: David (an energy drink-guzzling paintball salesman); his sweet but simple wife, Tammy; brother, Keith (a depressed musician wearing a SCRAM bracelet); and Sherry’s youngest, Sam (a genius of Indian descent).

Ed and Sherry announce their plans to adopt Mingmei, a young orphaned girl from China. On Monday, a social worker will arrive to interview them all. Sherry’s planned a weekend of bonding activities designed to turn them into a happy, loving family. But that’s easier said than done. And when Jeff discovers that his stepmom has been keeping a scandalous secret, the family could be destroyed forever. Of course, Jeff has been keeping a few secrets of his own…

The Steps is the story of two disparate families, with all their issues and baggage, learning to come together over the course of a weekend.

Director: Andrew Currie
Screenplay: Robyn Harding
Producers: Mary Anne Waterhouse, Daniel Iron, Andrew Currie, Jason James
Principal Cast: Jason Ritter, Emmanuelle Chriqui, James Brolin, Christine Lahti, Vinay Virmani, Benjamin Arthur, Kate Corbett, and Steven McCarthy
Development financing: Telefilm Canada, Harold Greenberg Fund, Superchannel
Canadian Distributor: Entertainment One
International Sales Agent: Seville International
Runtime: 98 mins

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FIDO

Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50's, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies carry the mail.

Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Terror spread across the land, until a collar was invented that made the zombies docile, even useful. A company was born: ZomCon. Thanks to their patented domestication collar, zombies became gardeners, milkmen, servants, even pets. ZomCon would like everyone to believe that they have the world under control - but do they?

Timmy Robinson doesn't think so. He thinks the world is "phony-baloney". An awkward loner, Timmy spends so much time in his room even his own parents don't notice him. So when Mom buys a zombie to help around the house, Timmy is surprised, and even curious, when the beast wants to play catch. When the zombie saves him from the local bullies, a true friendship is born, and Timmy names the zombie, "Fido".

But Fido's collar goes on the fritz, and the neighbors start paying the ultimate price. To complicate matters, ZomCon's notorious zombie-control specialist, Mr. Bottoms, has moved in across the street.

What begins as a small town story about a boy and his best friend, becomes a biting satire about our world, the price of fear, and the rewards of risking love. "Fido" will rip your heart out.

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Director: Andrew Currie
Written by: Robert Chomiak & Andrew Currie & Dennis Heaton
Originial Story by: Dennis Heaton
Starring: Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker, introducing K'Sun Ray with Henry Czerny and Tim Blake Nelson
Producers: Mary Anne Waterhouse, Blake Corbet
Co-producers: Trent Carlson, Kevin Eastwood, Heidi Levitt
Executive Producers: Peter Block, Patrick Cassavetti, Jason Constantine, Shelley Gillen, Daniel Iron
Distributors: TVA Films (Canada), Lionsgate (USA), Metropolitan (France), Entertainment Film Distributors (UK), Svensk Filmindustri (Scandanavia), Toshiba (Japan), Rai (Italy), Ascot Elite (Germany)
Awards: Gerardmer – Special Jury Prize, and Best Film Score, Vancouver Critics Circle – Best Film, Best Actress (Carrie-Anne Moss), Toronto International Film Festival – Opening Film, Perpsectives Canada, Sundance Film Festival – Official Entry
Genre: Comedy

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THE DELICATE ART OF PARKING

The Delicate Art of Parking is an absurd comedy about a parking enforcement officer who, despite constant abuse from the public, finds truth, honour and serenity in the act of ticketing. His religious devotion to the work is challenged however, when his best friend and mentor is run down by an angry motorist and knocked into a deep coma. With the help of an angry young filmmaker, a French Canadian tow truck driver, and a sound recordist from Russia, he embarks on a comical investigation into... The Delicate Art of Parking.

 

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Director: Trent Carlson
Original Screenplay by: Trent Carlson and Blake Corbet
Producers: Blake Corbet, Andrew Currie
Co-producer: Kevin Eastwood
Produced in association with: Telefilm Canada, British Columbia Film, Movie Central, The Movie Network, Showcase Television, CanWest Independent Producers Fund
Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Horizon Entertainment
Awards: Montreal World Film Festival – Best Canadian Feature, Peniscola Comedy Festival (Spain) – Best Film, Best Actor (Fred Ewaniuk), Victoria Independent Film Festival – Best Canadian Feature, Vancouver International Film Festival – Audience Award
Genre: Comedy

 

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MILE ZERO

The sad and gripping tale of a father who has a remarkable capacity to love, but who lets fear and desperation rule his actions.

 

Derek Ridley is a father with a remarkable capacity to love, but whose emotional fragility makes him feel unworthy of love himself. When his marriage breaks down, he starts making reckless attempts to get his family back, eventually hatching a desperate plan to take his young son to the Rocky Mountains where he believes a wilderness utopia will be found. Initially the adventure represents an exciting and cathartic sense of freedom for father and son, but as the narrative crashes between past and present, and the stakes continue to rise, Derek's world of denial and half-truths are challenged in the most unexpected of ways.

 

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Director: Andrew Currie
Producers: Trent Carlson, Blake Corbet
Executive Producers: Elizabeth Yake, Blake Corbet, Jennifer Kawaja, Julia Sereny
Production Financing: TMN - The Movie Network, Superchannel Ltd, Showcase Television, The Canadian Television Fund, Telefilm Canada, British Columbia Film
Original Story by: Andrew Currie and Michael Melski
Screenplay by: Michael Melski
Awards: World Fest Houston – Platinum Award, First Feature, Victoria Independent Film Festival – Best Canadian Feature, Moondance International Film Festival – Best Feature
Genre: Drama

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PRIMARY

Nicholas Gray has a secret not even he knows about…

 

As battles with a business rival cause his world to begin to crumble, Nicholas Gray meets a charismatic drifter who challenges his life philosophy. Nicholas changes his outlook, loses everything he has and then decides to get it back...

 

Producers: Vince Prokop, Dustin Milligan
Executive Producers: Lou Webster, Mary Anne Waterhouse
Producer/Writer/Director: Ross Ferguson

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THE THAW

A deadly prehistoric parasite is released when a Woolly Mammoth is discovered in a melting ice cap. Faced with a potentially global epidemic, four ecology students must destroy the parasite before it reaches the rest of civilization. One-by-one they are infected and one-by-one they turn on each other. Soon the survivors are left with only one choice - to make the ultimate sacrifice and burn everything to the ground... including themselves.

 

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Director: Mark A. Lewis
Producers: Trent Carlson, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Rob Neilson
Written by: Mark A. Lewis and Michael W. Lewis

 

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ELIJAH

Canada's endless battle to settle the age-old score between the French and the English is scuttled by the unlikeliest of heroes.

 

It's June 1990: Elijah Harper - a shy, reluctant hero from a remote Cree community in the frozen north - is caught in a media hailstorm when he squares off against the forces of a powerful political elite. Summarizing his people's response to over 300 years of "civilization", Elijah risks his own life and Canada's future when he utters one simple yet irrevocable word on the six-o'clock news: NO.

 

Director: Paul Unwin
Original Screenplay by: Blake Corbet
Executive Producer: Blake Corbet, Mary Anne Waterhouse
Producers: Christopher Leeson, Lisa Meeches, Gigi Boyd
Co-producers: Ki Wight, Desiree Single
Associate Producer: Andria Spring
Production Financing: CTV, APTN, Manitoba Film & Sound, Cogeco Production Fund, Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development
Story Editor: Annie Reid
Genre: Biographical, Comedy

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DONOVAN'S ECHO

Donovan (Danny Glover) returns home to discover that tragic events from his past are possibly repeating. Plagued by déjà vu, Donovan is convinced his young neighbour and her mother are doomed to die on the anniversary of his wife and daughter’s deaths. Struggling to unlock the pattern, Donovan tries to solicit the help of his brother-in-law, police Sergeant Finnley (Bruce Greenwood). When his facts don’t add up, Donovan’s sanity is questioned. Is he losing his mind, or running out of time?

 

Executive Producers: Mary Anne Waterhouse, Lance Priebe, Bruce Greenwood
Producers: Trent Carlson and Andria Spring
Director: Jim Cliffe
Writers: Melodie Krieger, Jim Cliffe
Distributor: Union Pictures Canada
Foreign Sales: Stealth Media Group
Financed by: Telefilm Canada, OOMM Productions, TMN, Movie Central

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LAWRENCE & HOLLOMAN

What doesn’t kill you ... still hurts. A dark, twisted, evil, insane … buddy comedy.

 

The nebbish, cynical and suicidal Holloman gets taken under the wing of Lawrence, a happy-golucky, ever-optimistic suit salesman. But while Holloman’s fortunes slowly improve, Lawrence’s life takes major turns for the worse: his fiancé dumps him, his car is demolished, his dog goes missing, he loses his job, and his apartment burns to the ground. And that’s just the beginning ...

Is happiness determined by our outlook on life? Or can our destiny be changed ... by another.

 

Producer: Paul Armstrong
Executive Producers: Mary Anne Waterhouse and Andrew Currie
Director: Mathew Kowalchuk
Screenplay: Daniel Arnold and Mathew Kowalchuk
Based on the play by: Morris Panych

 

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THAT BURNING FEELING

One night Adam went to bed with everything he ever wanted, and woke up with the one thing nobody ever wants...

 

ADAM MURPHY thought he had it all: a thriving career as a corporate attorney, an incredible quality of life, an endless parade of gorgeous women, and the charm to make it all look well-earned.

 

Gonorrhea doesn’t have to be a life-changer, but what starts off as a painful (mis)-diagnosis for the golden boy, triggers a series of events that throws his entire sense of self into question. Adam revisits a black book’s worth of bitter ex-lovers, to teach him a multitude of lessons, thereby “upskilling” him into the man he never knew he wanted to be.

 

As Adam balances this life makeover, his budding relationship with girlfriend Liv, and 30 days of crazy-making antibiotics, he finds that gonorrhea may have been the best thing that ever happened to him... and how often have you heard that sentence?

 

THAT BURNING FEELING is a romantic comedy about the least romantic thing possible… Inspired by films like Away We Go, 500 Days of Summer, 50/50, The Kids Are Alright, High Fidelity, and Knocked Up; THAT BURNING FEELING is a romantic comedy with a little more sting to it.

 

Producer: Marc Stephenson
Executive Producer: Mary Anne Waterhouse
Director: Jason James
Script by: Nick Sitton