Grassroots filmmaking will be celebrated and incubated during the sixth annual Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival.
Cinevic, a non-profit society devoted to independent filmmaking, is hosting the event May 4 and 5 at various downtown sites, with all film screenings at the Vic Theatre.
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Her Name is Destiny, by Luke Connor, Alex Miller and Darlene Tait, will be screened at Short Circuit on May 4.
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Fellow finalist and local novelist Claire Mulligan was shortlisted for The Still Life of Annika Myers, which sees an older man help a woman secure a still life painting she claims was taken during the Nazi occupation of Holland during the Second World War.
Mulligan wrote the piece for a short story contest where the theme was food, which led to her thinking it could be a good base for a novel. She ultimately received a Canada Council grant to do so and expand upon the original story.
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Other finalists include Out of Sound (Julia Dillon-Davis), Fade out (BD Young), Willow Tree (Arnold Lim) and YouB次元官网网址檙e A Damn Fine Cop, McGee (Piper Gordon).
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