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By Editor 15 January 2021 | 10:44 am
Following a successful showing in 2020, Nigerian feature film Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) has opened the year with a selection in the World Panorama section of the 51st edition of India’s biggest festival, The International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
Opening tomorrow and runs through January 24 in Goa, IFFI organisers recently announced the list of films under its World Panorama section, which consists of 50 outstanding films from across the globe. With a total of 8 films, majority of the films in the list are from Germany, followed by France with 6 movies. The line-up also includes films from The United States of America, Italy, Greece and Netherlands, with Eyimofe representing Nigeria.
Our guest on this episode is critically acclaimed TV and film producer, writer and director, Loretta Todd.
Loretta is the powerhouse creative behind last year’s multi-award winning movie, Monkey Beach, a film primarily set and filmed in Kitimaat.
Since it debuted at the Vancouver International Film Festival last year, it has won awards not only in Canada, but also the US at LA’s Red Rising Film Festival and the prestigious American Indian Film Festival, where it swept all major categories, including Best Picture and Best Director.
In this interview, we’ll catch up with Loretta as she reflects on the success of Monkey Beach, as well as talk to her about some of the other projects she currently has going on.
Image Credit: FACEBOOK/Monkey Beach January 14, 2021 - 11:06 AM Kamloops actor Oliver Tru Sison s recent film debut is now available to watch on Crave. Tru Sison is a 12-year-old in the Kamloops area who plays the role of Child Jimmy in a new film called
Monkey Beach. He originally auditioned for a different movie about four years ago, but it didn t work out, Lori Sison, Oliver s mother said. Then about two years ago she said the opportunity came because the casting agents kept the original video file. We re not a film industry family, it just kind of happened, she said. The supernatural thriller is directed by Indigenous storyteller Loretta Todd. It tells the story of Lisa (played by Grace Dove) attempting to reconnect with her family in Haisla territory while learning to coexist with the ghosts that haunt her.
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We examine the January 2021 Crave schedule to identify the most anticipated titles coming to the streaming platform this month.
Monkey Beach
After having its world premiere at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival, Loretta S. Todd’s B.C.–filmed adaptation of Eden Robinson’s novel stars
The Revenant’s Grace Dove as a Vancouver woman drawn back home to Kitamaat Village, where she discovers she’s a key player in a supernatural drama that stretches back for generations and might claim the life of her brother. And said brother is played by Joel Oulette, who stars in 2020’s other big Robinson adaptation, CBC’s