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- A famous DJ in the Ibiza club scene finds the alcohol and drug-fueled party that is his life threatened by the progressive loss of his hearing.
- Zara and Polly #werk in Toronto as "professional" line-waiters- hired by the rich and lazy to stand in line for exclusive products the day they DROP. A biting satire on modern day consumerism, transactional friendships, and the ever-expanding wealth gap.
- Ryan, a good-natured slacker, is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working for a lottery magazine. A capitalistic comedy that asks the question - when is "enough" enough?
- Docudrama about the maverick Canadian logger, Grant Hadwin, who became increasingly disillusioned with the logging industry.
- A drowning German Tourist re-counts key moments in his day that begin to unravel and re-shape into a pilgrimage through identity, death, love, and transformation.
- An intimate film portrait JEFF WALL- In Order to Make a Picture, examines this world-renowned photographers unique synthesis of art history, painting and cinema, in his defiant creation of the modernist photograph. At the close of the millennium, ArtNews numbered Vancouvers own Jeff Wall among the Ten Best Living Artists in the world. Jeff Wall is Canadas most internationally successful living artist. This is the first film to address his work and his working process. At the core, this film documents Wall at work on two contemporary projects an elaborately staged, cinematically realized, painterly photograph SPRING SNOW based on an image inspired by Yukio Mishimas 1971 novel of the same name, a story of forbidden love among the turbulent society of late-Imperial Japanese aristocracy and WOMAN WITH A COVERED TRAY, depicting a seemingly everyday event with his unique cinematic vision. To ground this portrait, select international art critics and curators weigh in on Jeff Wall's influence on the contemporary world art scene, as Jeff reflects on the influences that have shaped him as one of the worlds most interesting artists. Jeff Walls DEAD TROOPS TALK sold for more than $3.6 million US in 2012 at Christies making it the most expensive Canadian photograph ever sold and the worlds 4th most expensive photograph ever sold at auction after Cindy Sherman (UNTITLED #96, $3.89 million, USA sold 2011) and Andreas Gursky (RHEIN II $4.33 million, Germany, sold 2011) and most recently Australias Peter Liks PHANTOM that sold for $6.5 million in November 2014. Director Lu Nelson worked closely as a designer/production manager on Walls photographs AFTER "INVISIBLE MAN" BY RALPH ELLISON and THE PROLOGUE before embarking on this film project. With unfettered access to Wall, Nelson creates an intimate portrait of the artist, in the studio and on location, in the process of making two of Walls unique, cinematically inspired, large format, back lit, cibachrome photographs. Produced by Elizabeth Yake, True West Films (HADWIN'S JUDGEMENT, EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN, IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG)
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