Sundance 2019: Day 7
Director of Programming James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 22nd to February 3rd. Festival Day 5 First of all, if I met you at the festival-filmmaker “speed dating” event at Slamdance this afternoon, welcome! The site doesn’t always look like this. You can click here to see what our festival […]
Sundance 2019: Day 6
Director of Programming James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 22nd to February 3rd. Festival Day 4 I slept until after 9:00am this morning and didn’t get into HQ until nearly 11:00am. After Bobby and I went over the day’s schedule, he received a message from the filmmakers of End inviting […]
Sundance 2019: Day 5
Director of Programming James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 22nd to February 3rd. Festival Day 3 Bobby let me go straight to our first screening venue this morning, allowing me to sleep in a little bit. I met him at 10:30am at the historic Egyptian Theatre on Main Street, where […]
Sundance 2019: Day 4
Director of Programming James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 22nd to February 3rd. Festival Day 2 Back in the office at 8am for what might be my longest work day of the festival. I checked in a few more filmmakers before Bobby and I left at 1pm for the premiere […]
Sundance 2019: Day 3
Director of Programming James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 22nd to February 3rd. Festival Day 1 It’s 8:15pm and I’m ready for bed. A long and very tiring day but our first screening is under our belts and it went fairly smoothly. I started the day at HQ at 8am […]
Sundance 2019: Day 2
Director of Programming James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 22nd to February 3rd. T-1 day until festival begins Got a decent sleep and an early start this morning. I was up at 7:30am and had plenty of time to shower and eat some breakfast before heading for a 9:30am start […]
Sundance 2019: Day 1
Director of Programming James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 22nd to February 3rd. T-2 days until festival begins On the flight down last night, to get in the Sundance mood, I watched two films from last year’s festival. Three Identical Strangers is a documentary that starts with an unbelievable but […]
Sundance 2019: Before I Go
Director of Programming James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 22nd to February 3rd. I’m incredibly excited to be returning to Park City for the fourth time in the past five years. The past year has been a rollercoaster, with a cancer diagnosis just before last year’s festival, surgery upon my […]
Shorts That Are Not Pants Festival 2018
UPDATE: The full programme and schedule is now available! You can also now buy tickets to individual screenings (though we hope you’ll take advantage of our money-saving passes!) We’re excited to announce our very first festival weekend! It will take place November 23-24 at Cinecycle (behind 129 Spadina, just south of Richmond and a little […]
Thursday July 19: American Dreams and Nightmares
This month we’re proud to present a curated programme of notable American short films from the past decade or so. These films have played festivals around the world and we’re happy to bring them to you here in Toronto. Please join us and bring a friend or two! Thursday July 19th at 7:00pm (but meet […]