Many thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Vancouver Lift-Off. It was great to see so many filmmakers and film enthusiasts filling the Vancity Theatre, in support of both local and international indie film. The judge’s votes have been counted and added to the audience’s feedback. Huge congratulations to the filmmakers who screened with […]
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Documentary The Botanist has been extremely popular on this year’s Lift-Off festival circuit. We spoke to directors Maude Plante-Husaruk and Maxime Lacoste-Lebui to ask them some of our questions, and some of the questions we’ve heard people wondering after its screenings! 02/08/2017 Interview by Claire Richardson What first got you both into filmmaking? Before we […]
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To celebrate the acquisition of Ken Foster, Lift-Off caught up with Samantha Richardson from Devil Works to discuss the sales agent landscape and to hear her thoughts on how an independent filmmaker can best work with them. Devilworks is a boutique world film sales agent. They specialise in challenging film, and in 2017 they signed Lift-Off winning […]
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Clanker Man first screened at New York Lift-Off in May. We caught up with producer Dan Dixon, director/co-writer Ben Steiner, and co-writer/performer Eli Silverman, ahead of the film’s screening at Vancouver Lift-Off, to ask them some questions about themselves and of course the film! 31/07/2017 Interview by Claire Richardson So this wasn’t your first […]
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GAME first screened at Tokyo Lift-Off, then went on to screen in New York, and will be screening with us again at our next festival, in Vancouver. We had a chat with writer/director Jeannie Donohoe about herself and the film that’s taking our festivals by storm! 24/07/17 Interviewer by Claire Richardson GAME premiered as part […]
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