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Canadian Film updates July 9-15

Top 5 Canadian films as reported by Playback Magazine:

1) Piche: Entre ciel et terre (Piche: Between Heaven and Earth) - 2 weeks – $1,322,334
2) Hubble 3D – 17 weeks – $909,040
3) Splice – 6 weeks – $2,092,533
4) Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats) - 5 weeks – $434,501
5) Le baiser du barbu (The Kiss of the Bearded) - 4 weeks – $271,433

Times like this I wish we had access to Francophone films. Piche has made half of what Splice made in only 2 weeks.

I’ve gotta admit, I’ve been really unsupportive of Canadian film these days, having seen Inception (it IS amazing) last weekend. But I will be going to my very first Canada Screens screening tomorrow to see Grown Up Movie Star, which was selected by the Sundance Film Festival.

Even though we spend most of our time outdoors in the summer, there are some great film fests happening now or soon, worth staying inside – and even outside – for:

Okanagan Film Festival – July 21-25
Prospera Great Outdoors Film Festival – July 30-August 28
Film Noir at the Pacific Cinematheque –  August 11-September 2
Vancouver Queer Film Festival – August 12-22

Fresh Air Cinema: freshaircinema.ca
Outdoor movie nights in Ceperley Meadow at Stanley Park: westendbia.com
Movie Nights at the Nat Bailey Stadium

Canadian Film updates July 2-8

Top 5 Canadian films as reported by Playback Magazine:

1) Piche: Entre ciel et terre (Piche: Between Heaven and Earth) – 1 week – $288,211
2) Splice – 5 weeks – $2,053,200
3) Hubble 3D – 16 weeks – $818,701
4) Les Amours Imaginaires (Heartbeats) – 4 weeks – $400,945
5) Le Baiser du barbu (The Kiss of the Bearded) – 3 weeks – $259,389

The third part of Kellie Ann Benz’s NSI Canada blog where she interviews a panel of short filmmakers features Darragh O’Connell (Oscar-nominated Granny O’Grimm), Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12), and Michelle Savill (Betty Banned Sweets), who are all international filmmakers.

Check out the blog here and see what the differences are between how Canadians and other foreign filmmakers make and distribute shorts!

Canadian Film updates June 25-July 1, 2010

Top 5 Canadian films as reported by Playback Magazine:

1. Splice – 4 weeks – $1,922,389
2. Le baiser du barbu (The Kiss of the Bearded) – 2 weeks – $234,307
3. Les Amours Imaginaires (Heartbeats) – 3 weeks – $366,531
4. L’enfant prodige (The Wunderkind) – 5 weeks – $746,764
5. Hubble 3D - 15 weeks – $728,606

FYI the films are in order of top BO sales for THIS WEEK, but the amounts shown are total for the duration of the film in the box office (the # of weeks listed). Thought people might be confused about that.

Kellie Ann Benz released more Q&As with some of Canada’s top short filmmakers in the continuation of her NSI Canada blog. Check it out here.