Shadow Shows

15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a tattered shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he’s a dog. Tracey’s journey leads us into the dark underbelly of the city, into the emotional cesspool of her home, through the brutality of her high school, the clinical cat…

A woman becomes romantically involved with a murder defendant while she is a juror in his trial.

Picture Claire is a frenzied film noir about Claire Beaucage, a young woman whose dreams of a better life are kick-started into reality by a one-night stand. In only a few hours, Claire’s life will be turned upside-down. Escaping a group of vengeful drug dealers, Claire flees to Toronto hoping to find Billy, the man…

The life of Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann, filled with frustrations and glamour as she settles to become a best-selling writer after struggling as an actress. Based on Barbara Seaman’s biography.

An up-and-coming indie band consider signing a record deal.

Joe Dick, Billy Tallent, John Oxenberger and Pipefitter are Hard Core Logo, Vancouver’s legendary but now defunct punk band. Joe Dick coaxes his former bandmates to overcome personal differences and reunite for a benefit concert for their aging punk mentor Bucky Haight, who had been shot in Saskatchewan. The enormous success of their coming out…

Based on a book by W.P. Kinsella, the film is set on the Kidabanesee reserve in Northern Ontario. Silas Crow is a young man confused about his direction in life; he wants to take an automobile mechanic’s course in college, but is uncertain whether he should apply. His general confusion with life is most readily…

Set along the legendary road that leads from Thunder Bay in northern Ontario to New Orleans (passing through St. Louis, Memphis and many points in between), Highway 61 is a finely tuned, high-octane road movie. Don McKellar stars as a barber and frustrated trumpet player who has been planning to flee his small town for…

A rock and roll road-trip comedy set in Northern Ontario, Roadkill follows Ramona, a timid assistant to a venal rock promoter, as she travels to Sudbury looking for a band that hasn’t shown up for four gigs in a row. On the way, she meets a pot-smoking cab driver, a delusional music-video crew and an aspiring serial…