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Featured Films

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Dakota Skye

Canadian Premiere/Contemporary Independents/Featured/Feature Film/Guests Attending

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MEET THE STAR AND DIRECTOR of DAKOTA SKYE - EILEEN BOYLAN and JOHN HUMBER IN ATTENDANCE FOR THIS EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN PREMIERE! Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at this year's Phoenix Film Festival, Dakota Skye makes its triumphant Canadian Premiere in Edmonton, with director John Humber and star Eileen Boylan in attendance! Screening as part of our Contemporary Independents series, see why Dakota Skye is already being hailed as 'this year's Juno' (with a touch of 'Heroes' thrown in for good measure). For as long as she could remember, Dakota Skye has been cursed with a super power. She has the ability to see the truth in any lie she hears. From small, harmless white lies, to the more devious kind, they have come from the people that she should trust the most -- her family, friends and teachers. These lies have snowballed, leading to her becoming bitter and apathetic towards the world around her. Now seventeen, Dakota just watches the world happen around her, unmotivated to join it. She has a boyfriend who plays in a semi-popular local rock band and her best friend from childhood, but finds little joy in her own life. One day, Jonah comes into town. It only takes a few days before Dakota notices something about him that sets him apart from the other people in her life. Through her friendship with Jonah, Dakota's eyes are opened to the world around her and she sees that there is something out there more than all the lies. There is a possibility of something different... something better. If only he wasn't her boyfriend's best friend. EIFF is proud to present the Canadian Premiere of this dazzlingly entertaining film. Featuring a star-making performance by Eileen Boylan, Dakota Skye is warm, funny, sweet, and edgy. The undiscovered gem of 2008, it’s a surefire crowd-pleaser audiences will be buzzing about long after the lights come up. Canadian Premiere! In attendance: Director John Humber and STAR Eileen Boylan.

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Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father

Doc Central/Featured/Feature Film/Western Canada Premiere!

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ENCORE SCREENING ADDED! THURSDAY OCTOBER 2 at 4PM - EMPIRE CITY CENTRE 9 Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne sets out to create a video document/memorial to his late friend, Andrew Bagby, and discovers that the woman who murdered Andrew was pregnant with his unborn son at the time. What follows is a gut-wrenching journey into the intricacies of the criminal justice system, the frustration of endless custody battles, and one couple’s unrelenting fight to protect their grandson from the hands of his own mother. One of the most emotionally devastating films in years, Dear Zachary is an absolute must-see for anyone interested not only in true-crime stories, but those people also interested in the power of the human spirit. Staggeringly powerful, this is not a film you will easily – or soon – forget. EIFF is honoured to present the Western Canadian Premiere of this compelling, shocking, and beautiful film. David Bagby will be in attendance.

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The 23rd EIFF kicks off Sept. 25th!

Dates have been locked for a year now -- we always kick off on the final Friday in September and go for 9 days. But no matter how much we prepare for in advance, there's always the crush where we have to print the program guide, secure film dates, invite filmmakers, print the marketing materials, the list goes on. So right now we're swimming with the alligators. And immediately following the festival all of us here at EIFF central will ask ourselves the big question 'Will we do it again'?

How we answer that question often comes down to you -- our visiting filmmakers and audiences. It's up to you to show us you support an International Film Festival in Edmonton. To date, festival attendance and awareness has grown steadily over the past 5 years. Thank-you for that. It inspires us. Make it your mission this year to bring just one newbie to the film festival experience. We'd appreciate that!

Over the upcoming weeks, we'll raise the curtain on events happening before and during the festival. Our printed program guide will be available on Sept. 17 through limited SEE magazine boxes and at select Second Cup locations -- but it won't be the hard & fast 'bible' that we'd like it to be. Our festival is very organic, and until the day a film screens, everything can change.

Please check our website for the most up-to-date information. And have fun sampling the cinematic feast we've cooked up for you!

Posted: Aug. 24, 2009 at 2:56PM by Kerrie Long

Sneek Peaks

Some of 2008’s most highly-acclaimed and hotly-anticipated titles will be premiering EXCLUSIVELY at the 22nd Edmonton International Film Festival...

Among them:
Jonathan Demme’s RACHEL GETTING MARRIED has already wowed ‘em at TIFF, and the Oscar buzz for star Anne Hathaway is reaching fever pitch. EIFF is pleased to present the exclusive Edmonton premiere of one of this fall’s most anticipated films, Wednesday, October 1st at 7:15pm.

Winner of both the Audience Award AND Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, one of 2008’s BEST-reviewed films, the thrilling MAN ON WIRE, screens on Tuesday, September 30th at 6:45pm, as part of our Doc Central series.

Nominated for a 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Nikita Mikhalkov’s 12 is a brilliant Russian remake of the courtroom classic, 12 ANGRY MEN, and is screening on Monday, September 29th at 9:15pm, part of our World Cinema series.

Kevin Smith’s raucous, raunchy, and rowdy new crowd-pleaser ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO comes to Edmonton for a very special festival screening on Monday, September 29th at 6:45pm. Dispelling any notions that he might ‘mellow with age’, Kevin Smith has delivered his funniest, raunchiest, and yes – sweetest movie to date.

Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at this year’s Phoenix Film Fest, DAKOTA SKYE makes its triumphant Canadian Premiere on Friday, October 3rd, with director John Humber and star Eileen Boylan in attendance! Screening as part of our Contemporary Independents series, see why DAKOTA SKYE is already being hailed as ‘this year’s Juno’ (with a touch of ‘Heroes’ thrown in for good measure!).

Full festival line-up will be online this Wednesday, September 17th! Watch for program guides in the Sept. 18 edition of SEE Magazine.

Posted: Sep. 12, 2008 at 2:07PM by Kerrie

You Made It!

We've been waiting for you! We're totally gearing up for the 22nd EIFF and are confident that you'll find a film or two that will inspire and, we hope, delight.

Lots of new things going on... how do you like the new site design thanks to Christine and Kim over at Ratcreek -- who, by the way, did all the animation work on the feature film we'll be screening Freezer Burn: Invasion of Laxdale. The nerd is our very own Ryan Parker of the infamous, ukulele cover band The Be Arthurs and hot diva is Marissa Meekins. Huge applause goes out to Dale Roth and Michelle Ramberg of (get this) Roth & Ramberg for taking the snappy photos of Ryan and Marissa, and the uber-talend Mitch Winnicki at Parcom Marketing for his design work.

Keep checking back. We'll post film descriptions and times as quickly as they are confirmed. Get set to feast on films that are reel, and very fabulous!

Posted: Aug. 25, 2008 at 4:01PM by Kerrie

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