Considering the fact that this 52-minute, straight-to-YouTube movie is an amateur production that made no money off the project, the film has very impressive visual effects, sets, and actors.
āThe event is totally accessible to people who do not speak French, not even a little bit, but who are open to listen to a film in French.ā ā Carine Hirschi, French Instructor and organizer of Rendez-vous CinĆ©ma
Thereās more to being creative than adding a āzā to the end of all of your cards and getting someone to do anotherās hair during the game.
Itās a story only Wolff was in the position to write, but it should have been shared by a more talented teller.
The game offers a brutally believable portrayal of mental health issues and the innocuous guises these issues often take.
All the great Canadian content in 2017 will be recognized in the Canadian Screen Awards this year, unofficially called the Candys.
So what is it that makes this movie connect so strongly with audiences despite the lack of dialogue between the two featured performers?
āWhat makes performing poetry as opposed to writing thatās only on the page is the sense of community you get from saying your poems to an audience.ā ā Jillian Christmas, Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words and Coordinator at the Vancouver Poetry Slam
āWhether Iām teaching, I kind of lose myself in that. When Iām doing artwork, again, Iām totally focused on what Iām doing, and the rest of the world disappears.ā ā Marilyn Smitshoek, English Upgrading instructor
This week, five teams from five improv groups around the world compete until one of them emerges victorious.
