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The Province
April 30, 2009
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Prize-winning B.C. home-grown
By: Glen Schaefer
The Pacific Cinematheque is screening a five-day program of films drawn from this year’s Leo award nominees for BC. film and TV.
Many screenings will feature appearances by producers and directors talking about their films.
The screenings start today, and highlights include Iron Road, the Chinese-Canadian drama set amind the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway starring Peter O’Toole, Sam Neil, Ian Tracey and Tony Leung Ka-Fai.
Also screening is Sundance favourite Helen, with Ashley Judd as a woman beset by mental illness and depression, starring alongside Vancouver actors Lauren Lee Smith and Alexia Fast. Producer Christine Haebler will answer questions following the film.
Other feature screenings: When Life Was Good, writer-director Terry Miles' comic romance about young Vancouver artsy bohemians; and Stone of Destiny, the rousing historical caper from writer-director Charles Martin Smith.
Eight documentaries will be screened including Leigh Badgley’s The Dolphin Dealer and Baljit Sangra’s crime story Warrior Boyz.
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