WNDX 2012 participants

Here's the line up of filmmakers who took on the risk of shooting a reel for their WNDX premiere. In no particular order (cause the reels haven't been assembled yet), here they are with titles! 1 Alanna Iftody Grow it! Show it! / 2 Kelly Duke Steel Petals, Bright Lights / 3 Matheu Plouffe El Diablos The Undefeated / 4 Stacy Billingsley Don't Hassel The Hoff / 5 Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell + Eleanor Janzen Schadenfreude / 6 Kevin Bacon Sid & Nancy / 7 Matt Webber Feeding Time / 8 The Gooseneckers Larking Libby / 9 The Terrible Friends A Fishy Story / 10 Dave Barber Hung Dry on a Meat Jag / 11 Stephane Oystryk These Are Some Of My Friends / 12 Cynthia Wolfe-Nolin Sneaky Snogger / 13 Arley Willim + Erin Geres Orthus / 14 Martin Lussier thirty six hundred / 15 Michael Butterworth The Big Race / 16 Ryan Simmons The Joy Of Creating / 17 Mike Maryniuk Blotto / 18 Gwen Trutnau Lower Astral Entity / 19 Murray Toews + Jonathon Ferber Themes for Dystopia / 20 Sonya Ballantyne Taking the long way Home / 21 Ian Bawa Spectre / 22 Fabian Velasco I Hate Everything / 23 Karen Asmundson + Jaimz Asmundson Citizens Against Basswood / 24 Hersh Seth Walk Me Home / 25 Darren Young Circles / Grey Man's Gardens / 26 Aaron Zeghers Living on The Edge / 27 Studio 5 Studio 5/

Unlike the Jets, the OTS8 returns to WPG this fall!

Well, it's been a year and things have changed yet again in Winnipeg. Last year, we welcomed back the returned of the Jets to much fanfare, after the OTS8 filled the cultural void left behind by those puck shufflers. Now, with a lockout imposed, it's up to the talented voices of Winnipeg to rise yet again to the challenge to dry the tears of anguish with streams of joy to witness over 25 brand new super 8 reels hit the screen. We were going to move into MTS for this year's edition, but it would just feel a bit weird, and I the line up for urinals is torture, so..... It's back to our beloved home at the Gas Station theatre for this year's 6th annual WNDX OTS8. The films are at the lab as I type (thanks Pablo and Sebastjan at Niagara), and will be reeled together and expedited in time for the Sunday, September 30th screening at 8pm. Some familiar names are on the list for this year, along with a whole crop of new voices ready to unspool their celluloid dreams. And a quick shout out to past OTS8 participant Deco Dawson on his recent win of Best Canadian Short film at TIFF with his film Keep a Modest Head which will be screening at WNDX. Congrats! We'll be posting the full line up of WNDX OTS8 filmmakers later this week.