BLACK OUT bij DWDD

Regisseur Arne Toonen, Katja Schuurman & Birgit Schuurman bij De Wereld Draait Door

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Trailer BLACK OUT

In deze spannende en humoristische thriller van Arne Toonen wordt ex-crimineel Jos Vreeswijk op de dag voor zijn huwelijk wakker met een pistool in zijn hand naast een onherkenbaar lijk. De onderwereld beschuldigt hem bovendien van het stelen van twintig kilo cocaïne. Jos krijgt 24 uur om alles op te lossen. Bijkomend probleem is echter dat hij een black out heeft. Lukt het Jos om te voldoen aan het ultimatum en op tijd zijn voor zijn eigen huwelijk?

BLACK OUT is vanaf 26 januari 2012 te zien in de bioscoop.

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Trailer ALL INCLUSIVE online

De trailer van Billy's NTR Kort is HIER te bekijken!

ALL INCLUSIVE in premiere op het NFF

Op dinsdag 27 september gaat Billy Pols' NTR Kort ALL INCLUSIVE in premiere op het Nederlands Film Festival 2011. De premiere is besloten maar ALL INCLUSIVE wordt in totaal drie keer vertoond op het festival:

dinsdag 27-09-2011 om 20:30 uur in SSU - DE Zaal
woensdag 28-09-2011 om 22:00 uur in Louis Hartlooper Complex 1
donderdag 29-09-2011 om 22:00 uur in Rembrandt 1

Voor meer info en kaartverkoop zie filmfestival.nl

WALZER draait op het NFF

Rob Lückers WALZER draait op het Nederlands Film Festival op de volgende tijden en plaatsen:

donderdag 22-09-2011 om 14:00 uur in Rembrandt 3
maandag 26-09-2011 om 14:00 uur in Rembrandt 3
donderdag 29-09-2011 om 14:00 uur in Rembrandt 1

Voor meer info en kaartverkoop zie filmfestival.nl

ALL INCLUSIVE in NFF on Tour

Direct nadat de laatste Nederlandse films van de Utrechtse filmdoeken van het Nederlands Film Festival verdwijnen komt het festival met een speciale tour naar filmtheaters door het hele land. In deze tour vertoont het NFF in samenwerking met Cinema Delicatessen de tragikomedie WEBCAM, ALL INCLUSIVE en TITTEN uit de serie NTR Kort! editie 2011 en de documentaire TIMES LIKE DEESE.

NFF on Tour gaat onder andere langs de volgende filmtheaters: Het Ketelhuis (Amsterdam), De Gigant (Apeldoorn) en De Filmschuur (Haarlem), Filmtheater Hilversum (Hilversum) en de Verkadefabriek (Den Bosch). Binnenkort meer informatie op
filmfestival.nl of cinemadelicatessen.nl

Het Nederlands Film Festival vindt plaats van 21 september tot en met 30 september 2011.

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PLANK wint prijs in Beijing

Op het 1st Beijing International Film Festival heeft PLANK van Billy Pols de See The World Through Film Contest for Best Documentary Short gewonnen.

Rob Lücker's film wint 48 Hour Project

Gisteren was de prijsuitreiking van het Amsterdamse 48 Hour Project van 2011. Er zijn 27 films ingeleverd, waarvan één net 7 minuten te laat en dus gediskwalificeerd. Robs film THE VIS IT, geproduceerd door Hazazah kreeg 5 nominaties, kwam als beste film uit de bus, en dingt mee naar de prijs voor de beste 48 Hour film wereldwijd.

Voor deze editie maakten 27 teams van filmmakers binnen 48 uur een korte film. Het resultaat moest zoals altijd voldoen aan een aantal aspecten die vlak voor het startschot bekend werden gemaakt. Dit jaar moesten de volgende elementen in de film worden verwerkt: een visserman of vissersvrouw genaamd Reinier of Reini Rudolfs als personage, de zin "Waarom ben ik altijd de eerste?" en ten slotte een spiegel als object. Daarnaast kregen de deelnemers per groep een genre toebedeeld.

In THE VIS IT wordt een oude visser in een roeiboot lastig gevallen door een kerel op een veel grotere boot. Hij speelt harde muziek, is onzedelijk gekleed, trekt schunnige gezichten en vangt de beste vis. De film kreeg als genre 'tijdreisfilm' mee en daar wordt zo grappig mee omgegaan dat het publiek een mooie verrassing te wachten staat. Daarnaast is de film uiterst degelijk gedraaid en geregisseerd en bovendien hebben ze in 48 uur ook nog tijd gehad voor degelijke speciale effecten.

Een selectie van de films draait volgende week op Oerol.

http://kortefilmonline.nps.nl/

PLANK wint Best Documentary in San Rafael, Californie

Het Marin County Festival heeft Billy's PLANK de prijs voor Best Documentary toegekend.

Het festival vindt plaats van 30 juni tot en met 4 juli in het Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, California.

DROP DEAD! wins Best International Short in Cleveland

Arne Toonen's short DROP DEAD! won the prize for Best International Short at the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival!

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BLACK OUT one of the Telefilms 2012

BLACK OUT, a film written by Melle Runderkamp and to be directed by Arne Toonen will be part of Telefilm 2012.

The new Telefilms series - with crime as central theme - received 123 submissions, out of which 12 plans were selected for the first round. In the final round 6 films were chosen that will be broadcasted on television in 2012.

BLACK OUT is a Hazazah Pictures & Orange Film production, with BNN as coproducing broadcasting corporation.

PLANK gets Special Mention at Divercine

At the Divercine Film Festival in Montevideo, Uruguay, PLANK received a Special Mention for Short Documentary Film.

Earlier Billy Pols' film won the prize for Best International Film at the LA Skate Film Festival, Best Documentary at Sapporo ShortsFest in Japan and the 7th round of the NTR New Arrivals, shown at the IFFR last week. PLANK was nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Award and got a Special Mention at IndieLisboa.

ALL INCLUSIVE by Billy Pols selected for NTR KORT!

ALL INCLUSIVE, a film by Billy Pols has been selected for the NTR KORT! program. The scenario was written by Luuk Frank van Heerde and Martijn Hullegie. KORT! gives young and established directors the possibility to make a short fiction film. ALL INCLUSIVE and 9 other scenario's were chosen out of 150 submissions. The films will premiere at the Dutch Film Festival 2011.

Platina Film for DIK TROM

DIK TROM, the succesfull family film from Eyeworks Film en TV Drama (director: Arne Toonen), reached the status of Platina Film. Since the Dutch theater release on Wednesday 24 November 2010 more than 400,000 visitors saw the film. Director Arne Toonen received the Platina Film in theatre The Movies in Willemstad (Curaçao) - where the film is a great success - out of the hand of DIK TROM-characters Dolf (Thijs Römer) and the salesgirl in Dunhoven (Birgit Schuurman). DIK TROM is the first Platina Film of 2011.

Arne Toonen in spotlight at Go Short Festival

Go Short, the international short film festival in Nijmegen puts Dutch directors Arne Toonen, Hanro Smitsman and Danyael Sugawara in the spotlights with the program Dutch Talent, in which their work will be shown. Go Short shows Europe's best short films and takes place from 16-20 March in and around LUX Nijmegen.

www.goshort.nl

Gold Film for DIK TROM

Arne Toonen's succesfull family film DIK TROM (production by Eyeworks) has been awarded the status of Golden Film. More than 100.000 people saw the film since the Dutch theater release on 24 november. The Dutch Film Festival and the Dutch Film Fund granted the Golden Film yesterday to Arne and Michael Nierse, who plays Dik Trom.

PLANK wins 7th round of NTR New Arrivals

The jury and the online public chose PLANK by Bllly Pols as winner of the 7th round of the NTR New Arrivals online competition.

PLANK will be shown in a special New Arrivals program at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011, together with the winners of the previous rounds. The final winner will be announced there and wins a money prize.

NTR New Arrivals

Shoot STRANGERS

Last weekend we shot Bram Schouw's new short film STRANGERS in Bloemendaal.

Ellen and Robbert find a stranger at their door. This young woman from Liberia puts an uncomfortable light on their lives.

STRANGERs is partly funded by the NFTVM VERS! Prize Bram won for his previous film IMPASSE.

Trailer Rob Lücker's WALZER online

Watch it HERE

Arne Toonen's DIK TROM in premiere

Last week DIK TROM, the first feature film directed by Arne Toonen and produced by Eyeworks premiered in the Tuschinski Theatre in Amsterdam. DIK TROM is a film about the chubby, friendly Dik Trom who moves with his family to Thin Town, where everybody is very thin and sporty. We are very proud of Arne!

Watch the trailer HERE

DROP DEAD! wins Best International Short at Kerry Film Festival

At the Kerry Film Festival in Ireland Arne Toonen's DROP DEAD! was awarded Best International Short. The winning films were selected by Kerry Film Festival's adjudication panel which included Noel Pearson, Jane Seymour, Tomm Moore and James Marsh and by the audience at the festival.

www.kerryfilmfestival.com

PLANK wins prize for Best Documentary in Japan

Billy Pols' PLANK won the award for Best Documentary yesterday at the Sapporo ShortsFest in Japan!

www.sapporoshortfest.jp

DROP DEAD! wins public prize at FilmFest Osnabrück

Arne Toonen won the public prize for his short DROP DEAD! at the 25th Unabhängiges FilmFest in Osnabrück!

www.filmfest-osnabrueck.de

WALZER pre-premiere

Yesterday Rob Lücker's film WALZER had its pre-premiere in Kriterion. The audience was very excited!

In WALZER, scrap metal pikey Arec discovers a valuable treasure during his demolishing and gathering work in a dark basement. He decides to keep it for himself, but soon his two comrades grow suspicious and a fierce and nerve-racking struggle for power unfolds…

PLANK nominated for Cinekid Kinderkast Prize

Billy Pols' short documentary PLANK about skateboarder Nassim Guammaz is nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Television Prize in the category Non Fiction. The members of the jury are Ineke Houtman, Ingeborg Jansen, Mieke de Jong, Chris Silos and Ingrid Wolff.

The winners will be announced on 29 October at the Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam.

PLANK wins Best International Film at LA Skate FIlm Festival

Billy's documentary about Nassim Guammaz was awarded Best International Film at the LA Skate Film Festival in Los Angeles: And-the-winners-are...

PLANK was chosen by a jury with 'the most respected and iconic minds in skateboarding', including C.R. Stecyk, Stacy Peralta, Grant Brittain, Fred Mortagne, Bryce Kanights, Ed Templeton, Ricki Bedenbaugh, Greg Hunt, Mike Manzoori, Jamie Thomas, Ty Evans and Geoff Rowley.

Watch PLANK HERE

BLACK OUT selected for Telefilms 2012

BLACK OUT, a film plan to be written by Luuk Frank van Heerde and directed by Arne Toonen is selected by BNN for the Telefilms 2012.

Out of 123 entries the Dutch public broadcasting corporations selected 12 plans for the new series of Telefilms. Next spring they will make the definitive choice for the 6 plans that will be broadcasted in 2012.

BLACK OUT will be produced by Hazazah Pictures in cooperation with Orange Film.

www.telefilm.nl

PLANK nominated for Best International Film at LA Skate Film Festival

Billy's documentary about Nassim Guammaz - who became European Champion last weekend in Basel! - is nominated for Best International Film at the LA Skate Film Festival. The festival takes place from 31 August till 2 September in Los Angeles.

A jury with 'the most respected and iconic minds in skateboarding', including C.R. Stecyk, Stacy Peralta, Grant Brittain, Fred Mortagne, Bryce Kanights, Ed Templeton, Ricki Bedenbaugh, Greg Hunt, Mike Manzoori, Jamie Thomas, Ty Evans and Geoff Rowley selected and nominated PLANK.

Watch the trailer HERE
Watch PLANK HERE

http://www.thelaskatefilmfestival.com/

Shoot WALZER

Last week we shot Rob Lücker's short film WALZER in the cellar complex of a convent in Limburg. The leading roles were played by Yorick van Wageningen, Tamás Varga and Florent Veldeman. We had a fantastic time and the material looks very promising. To be continued!

Arne Toonen wins gold at Emden Filmfest

Last weekend Arne Toonen's short film DROP DEAD! won the first prize in the Ostfriesischer Kurzfilmpreis der VGH at the Emden-Norderney Film Festival in Germany. He won a bronze statue and a money prize.

Watch an impression of the award ceremony HERE, click Impressionen

PLANK gets Special Mention at IndieLisboa

At the 7th edition of the IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival in Lisbon PLANK received a Special Mention for the IndieJunior Award. Watch an interview with Billy at IndieLisboa HERE.

PLANK screens at festivals across the world, among which the prestigious Oscar qualifying Aspen Shortsfest and Oberhausen Int'l Short Film Festival.

Watch the teaser HERE.

PLANK at IDFA and on TV

PLANK, a documentary by Billy Pols about the Moroccan-Dutch skateboarder Nassim Guammaz will be shown at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam from 19-29 November. PLANK will also be broadcasted on television next Saturday at 13.25 on Nederland 3.

The 15-year-old Dutch-Moroccan Nassim is a skateboarder -- even though he is well aware that Moroccans are supposed to like soccer or kickboxing. "They just don't think it's cool," he explains, "When they think of skaters, they think of that Gothic shit and people with black nail polish." Now that his parents are divorced, Nassim lives with his mother and sisters. Things were "not cool" at home before his folks split. Watching old family videos, he talks about his relationship with his father: "He was more interested in teaching me a lesson than teaching me stuff." Because his father did not keep his word about paying for soccer, Nassim started skating -- it is free, after all, and you can do it anywhere. Nassim wants to become a pro-skater when he is older. School, a job, or his own family are low on his list, so every day he practices dangerous stunts with his skate buddies. "Skating is my springboard to another world." This is the first year that Nassim will not be joining his family on their annual vacation to Morocco. He is participating in big skating competitions, including the Grand Prix of Rotterdam. Nassim demonstrates his coolest moves, although it sometimes ends up causing him (and even the camera) physical damage. The film also features some remarkable competition footage and a soundtrack with everything from hip-hop to the folk rock of Cat Stevens.

For IDFA tickets go to: http://www.idfa.nl/

Watch the trailer HERE

SPITTING INK at IDFA

SPITTING INK, a documentary by Ralph de Haan and Lars Siemens on beat poetry in New York City has its world premiere at the IDFA and runs in the competions Premieres of the Lowlands and First Appearance. Besides the sold out premiere at 23 November Spitting Ink will be shown three times at the festival: 25-11 at 18:15 (Munt 13); 26-11 at 15:30 (Tuschinski 4) and 27-11 at 20:00 (OBA).

In the United States, a poetry subculture has grown up around a group of young, mostly non-white spoken-word artists. Although the work they produce is widely diverse, it tends to have a strong affinity with contemporary social reality and urban culture. The poets' work is not aimed at a mass audience, and they perform in small clubs. Each of them has found his or her own way to focus the power of the spoken word. Spitting Ink is a portrait of some of these artists. Interviews and live performances are interspersed with images of the streets of New York -- not the orderly, well-to-do neighborhoods, but their lively and sometimes dilapidated backstreet counterparts, with their graffiti-covered walls, subway trains, and bars. Spoken-word artist Mike Ladd speaks about this poetry's origins and background (its roots in gospel and other forms) and about how it reached a turning point with the arrival of rap. Beau Sia creates poetry both to impress the girls and to rebut prejudices about his Asiatic roots; Celena Glenn only writes once a year, when her head is full to overflowing and dozens of poems suddenly stream out.

The SPITTING INK trailer can be watched HERE.

DROP DEAD! premieres at Dutch Film Festival

Last Monday Arne Toonen's short film DROP DEAD! premiered at the Dutch Film Festival.

Fons celebrates his fiftieth birthday with a parachute jump. He is actually afraid, but Mike, his instructor, reassures him. While Fons is already tied up to him, Mike hears his girlfriend has left him for someone else. Mike sobs his heart out the whole flight. Fons gets the shock of his life when Mike shows suicidal tendencies during the jump.

From Sunday the 4th of October DROP DEAD! can be watched online HERE

DROP DEAD! t-shirts are available in a limited edition for 25 euro. Send an email to info@hazazah with your size and sex.

Billy Pols makes NPS Kids & Docs

Billy Pols' documentary plan PLANK received a realization grant from the Media Fund. PLANK is about the young Nassim Guammaz's passion for skating and his life in a Dutch-Moroccan family. Public broadcasting corporation NPS and Hazazah will produce the documentary, which will be shot this summer and directed by Billy.

Billy was invited by the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) to develop PLANK as part of Kids & Docs, an initiative of IDFA, Cinekid and the Media Fund. The documentary will be shown at IDFA and Cinekid and will be broadcasted on TV by the NPS.

United Nations selects IMPASSE for film project

Short film IMPASSE by Bram Schouw was selected for STORIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS, a unique film project assigned by Art For The World and the Verenigde Naties. On 10 December 2008 was the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Internationally recognised filmmakers, artists andwriters, have joined forces to mark this event by contributing to a unique film project composed by 22 three minute short-movies inspired by the six themes of the Universal Declaration: culture, development, dignity and justice, environment, gender and participation.

The premiere of the feature film at the Theatre National de Chaillot in Paris was attended by Bernard Kouchner, French Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Rama Yade, the French Secretary of State in charge for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights.

STORIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS participants have been selected for their strong artistic qualities and their deep interest towards the promotion of Human Rights : Marina Abramovic (Serbia/The Netherlands), Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine), Armagan Ballantyne (New Zeland), Sergei Bodrov (Russia), Charles De Meaux (France), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster&Ange Leccia (France), Runa Islam (UK/Bangladesh), Francesco Jodice (Italy), Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen (Israel), Zhan Gke Jia (China), Murali Nair (India), Idrissa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), Walter Salles e Daniela Thomas (Brazil), Saman Salour (Iran), Sarkis (France), Teresa Serrano (Mexico), Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania), Pablo Trapero (Argentina), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand) and Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia).

The movies have been shot in more than fifteen countries and languages. They will exist as single short movie and will also be presented all together in a feature film of eighty minutes, subtitled in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). The film is accompanied by a book, published by Electa, that contains interviews with the film makers and the artists, still frames of the short movies and backstage pictures as well as contributions by twelve authors, including five Nobel prize winners, referring to the six themes of the Declaration: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Khaled Hosseini, Roberto Saviano, Naguib Mafuz, Elfriede Jelinek, Ruth Ozeki, José Saramago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Assia Djebar, Nuruddin Farah, Toni Morrison and Mo Yan.

From 2009, the short movies and the long feature will be screened around the world, especially in film festivals, cinemas, schools, museums and cultural institutions. They will also be broadcasted on the most important international TV channels.

IMPASSE wins NFTVM VERS Award

Last Friday Bram Schouw won the NFTVM VERS Award with his short film IMPASSE. The distribution of this incentive prize for young film makers took place at the Ketelhuis in Amsterdam.

The jury, consisting of Joram Lürsen (director Alles is Liefde) Jochum ten Haaf (actor Vuurzee), Petra ten Brinke (Filmfonds) en Ben Willems (Filmmore) rewarded IMPASSE with a 10.000 euro cheque.

Watch IMPASSE HERE

IMPASSE gets Special Mention Best International Short Film at IAFF

Last Sunday, Bram Schouw's short film IMPASSE got a Special Mention in the category Best International Short Film at the International Amsterdam Film Festival. IMPASSE was also nominated in the category Best Dutch Short Film.

The jury, consisting of Yaël Vinckx, Jonathan Rudnick en Nina Köll about IMPASSE: "To tell a simple story in a non-simplifying, subtle way is one of the most difficult things for a story-teller - IMPASSE is a beautiful example of exactly that. Intriguing and convincing characters, a clear, strong story line that still invites the viewer for interpretations, and the choice to avoid dialogue makes it a very strong film."

IMPASSE is part of STORIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS, a film produced by the World Cinema Foundation and the United Nations. This feature film, existing of 23 short films from directors as Hany Abu-Assad, Walter Salles and Sergei Bodrov, will have it's world premiere at the Berlinale 2009. For more info about the Stories On Human Rights project see www.art-for-the-world.com.

IMPASSE will also be shown at the 21st International Film Festival Tokyo (18-24th October).

Rob Lücker wins Talent&Pro Award at Dutch Film Festival 2008

At the 28th edition of the Dutch Film Festival director Rob Lücker was presented the Talent&Pro Award for his short film SKODA.

The prize was awarded for the 6th time to the best graduation film of the Dutch audio visual academies, except for Amsterdam. Rob Lücker graduated from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht with this film, that was produced by Hazazah.

In SKODA two neighbours both lead a boring life, in spite of being each others opposites. When one of them wants to help the other, he gets a punch in the face. Yet in the end they prove to get along.

The Talent&Pro Award jury on SKODA: 'In this film every shot was like a painting. Every scene is just right in timing, image and action.'

The winner receives 2.500 euro. The Talent&Pro Award aims to stimulate young talents in their further career in the film industry.

Watch trailer SKODA

Hazazah at the Dutch Film Festival 2008

During the film festival hazazaH directors Arne Toonen and Jean van de Velde directed the short film OH, DEER. This film is part of the project The Master and the Pupil, in which in every film discipline an experienced master coaches a pupil at the start of his or her career. OH, DEER, featuring Monic Hendrickx and Pierre Bokma will have its premiere 2nd October.

Besides OH, DEER, Arne's television film HOU HOLLAND SCHOON and the video clip JUICED will be shown at the Dutch Film Festival.

Tim Burton receives Hans Brinker Award

On April 10th Tim Burton received the first Hans Brinker Award in the Tuschinski theatre from Paul Ruven, Roland Mylanus and YANi.

The award, accompanied by a richly illustrated letter from Hans Brinker himself, was presented to Burton by way of thanking him for his inspiring work and to arouse his interest in the feature film project BRINKER.

MILAH

MILAH, directed by Arne Toonen, is a short film assigned by advertising agency XXS and Brand Beer, intended to circulate on the internet as a viral. The film was also finished in cinema projection quality to run in festivals. MILAH tells the tall story of how the Urtyp recipe was brought from the communist Czech Republic to the brewery in Limburg.

Watch Milah and the commercial

PARADISE NOW showered with prizes

PARADISE NOW is a psychological thriller about two young Palestinians who are recruted for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. With the explosives already strapped on his body, one of them starts to doubt.

PARADISE NOW from director Hany Abu Assad and producer Bero Beyer was showered with prizes:
nomination Oscar Best Foreign Language Film / Academy Awards
winner Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film / Golden Globes
winner Blue Angel, Amnesty International Film Prize, Audience Award and nomination Golden Berlin Bear / Berlin International Film Festival
winner European Film Award Best Screenwriter / European Film Awards
winner Golden Calf Best Editing, Golden Calf Best Film and nomination Golden Calf Best Director, Golden Calf Best Screenplay, Dutch Critics Award / Nederlands Film Festival
nomination Silver Condor Best Foreign Film / Argentinian Film Critics Association Awards
nomination Critics Choice Award Best Foreign Language Film / Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
winner DFWFCA Award Best Foreign Language Film / Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
third prize Emden Film Award / Emden International Film Festival
nomination Gold Film Award Best Screenplay and Outstanding Feature Film / German Film Awards
winner Golden Trailer Best Foreign Dramatic Trailer / Golden Trailer Awards
winner Independent Spirit Award Best Foreign Film / Independent Spirit Awards
winner NBR Award Best Foreign Language Film / National Board of Review, USA
winner VFCC Award Best Foreign Film / Vancouver Film Critics Circle

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