WOW! St. John’s did a great job representing Newfoundland at the AFF this fall. Down to the Dirt’s Anna Petras and Justin Simms arrived home from the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the award for the Best Atlantic Feature! Congratulations !! The prize for the Best Atlantic Short resides in St. John’s as well and went to Jordan Canning and Jody Richardson for their film Bedroom. Hooray! Well done everyone you make us proud!

It’s really buzzing in the office at 155 Water Street this week! Today a press conference was held at NIFCO announcing the Program and Workshops offered by the 19th Annual St. John’s Women’s International Film Festival! Exciting stuff – we’re lucky to be opening with the award winning Down to the Dirt! We’re really hoping Joel Hynes, Novelist/lead actor and Sherry White Co-screenwriter will be in attendance!

The Board had a fun job watching all those films but it got tough when it came time to make the decisions about what gets screened. Board member, Leslie Vyrenhoek, blogs about the task here at Cahoots. They did a great job though – the line-up looks fantastic!! Hats off to Mary Lewis and Lori Clarke for creating the trailer for the film festival. Check it out! Speaking of trailers… how is yours coming along?! Remember the deadline is October 6th for the moovy.ca trailer contest! Can’t wait to see what you’ve come up with!!

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Wow, there’s a lot of moooving and shaking in the local film scene right now. Not one, but three Newfoundland films have made it into the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, including Jordan Canning (producer/director) and Jody Richardson's (writer) short drama Bedroom, Rhonda Buckley (producer) and Sherry White's (writer/director) short drama Spoiled and Newfound Films (producer Anna Petras and director Justin Simms) and Joel Hynes/Sherry White's (writers) feature film Down To The Dirt. These films, among others from the province, are also screening at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, among other festivals.

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Also, be sure to check out Emily Bridger’s short, Epilogue and interview here on moovy.ca. Emily’s an emerging filmmaker from St. John’s, now living in Toronto. You may have seen it already at The Nickel in June, but did you know it screened a few weeks ago in Montreal’s YoungCuts as well? Silver moovy hats off to our stellar filmmakers!

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