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Kyle Edward Ball
''Skinamarink'' is a 2022 Canadian experimental horror film, written and directed by Kyle Edward Ball in his feature directorial debut. The film follows a young brother and sister who wake up during the night to discover that they cannot find their father and that the windows, doors, and other objects in their house are disappearing. Before the production of ''Skinamarink'', Ball ran a YouTube channel where he would upload videos based on nightmares recounted by commenters. His short film ''Heck'' (2020) was developed as a proof of concept for ''Skinamarink'', which was shot on digital video at Ball's childhood home in Edmonton. ''Skinamarink'' premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 25, 2022, before going on to screen at other festivals, including some that offered at-home viewing options. Copies of the film leaked online, after which it garnered attention and word-of-mouth acclaim on social media. ''Skinamarink'' received a theatrical release in North Ameri ...
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Fantasia Film Festival
Fantasia International Film Festival, also known as Fantasia Fest or simply Fantasia, is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. It focuses on fantasy, horror, sci-fi and cult genre films. Regularly held in July/August, by 2016 its annual audience had already surpassed 100,000 viewers. ''Fantasia'' has been often cited as the most outstanding and largest genre film festival in North America, and as one of the top three in the world, alongside Sitges and Fantastic Fest. Its mission is to promote genre, anti-Hollywood cinema and assist independent filmmakers, having launched the careers of many modern auteurs throughout the years. Since 2012, the festival has also held the ''Frontières'' cinema market that allows promising projects to find potential producers and distributors. In 2016, the ''Frontières'' announced collaboration with the Marché du Film, led by the Cannes Film Festival. Overview ''Fantasia'' focuses on niche, l ...
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Inverse (website)
''Inverse'' is an online magazine from Bustle Digital Group, covering topics such as technology, science, and culture for a millennial audience. History Launched in 2015 by Dave Nemetz, co-founder of ''Bleacher Report'', the site was made possible through seed funding with its headquarters in San Francisco, California and the editorial staff initially based in Brooklyn, New York. The company raised a $6 million Series A funding in 2016, led by Crosslink Capital with participation from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. In 2017, the headquarters was moved to SoHo, Manhattan, New York City with an expanded staff of approximately 30 full-time employees and 25 freelancers. In September 2017, the company debuted two shows on the Facebook Watch platform. On August 15, 2018, six staff writers (15 percent of the staff) were laid off after it was reported that the site's monthly unique visitors went down from 7.2 million in July 2017 to 5.7 million. The site's traffic jump ...
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Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ...
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Film And Video Arts Society
The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA) is a Canadian non-profit, charitable film organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, which provides training, equipment, studio spaces and networking opportunities for emerging and established filmmakers. Established by independent artists in 1982, FAVA represents one of the oldest artist-run co-ops in Canada and reached its 40th anniversary milestone in 2022. Since 2019, the society has operated out of the City of Edmonton's Orange Hub, where they now offer access to multiple large-scale studio spaces, a recording suite, editing suites, and a dark room. FAVA's successful model is now copied by other non-profit cooperatives; having grown from 16 initial members to today's more than 300. Early years of meager supplies and limited resources helped to nurture a communal sense of sharing and a pooling of equipment that extended even to the National Film Board of Canada who shared office space and an infamous "late-night key" (that provided ...
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