Local talent on display at 2016 Soo Film Festival

NEWS RELEASE

SOO FILM FESTIVAL

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Three features and several shorts from Canada are among the films selected for the 2016 Soo Film Festival.

Scratch follows a rookie armoured truck guard caught between her co-workers’ plot to rob their own truck and greedy gangsters desperate to grab the loot. The filmmakers hail from Windsor and Toronto. Scratch will screen Saturday, Sept. 17, at 9:30 p.m.

Three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience while spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior in Sleeping Giant. Director and co-writer Andrew Cividino was raised in Dundas, Ontario, and attended Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts.

This is his feature debut. Sleeping Giant will screen Saturday, Sept. 17, at 4:30 p.m.

In Pineville Heist, a high school teen stumbles into the aftermath of a bank robbery gone wrong and finds himself locked inside his school trying to keep himself and his teacher alive as one of the psychotic robbers hunts them down.

Director Lee Chambers is originally from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. This is his feature debut. Pineville Heist will screen Saturday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. A Q&A with the filmmakers is scheduled for after the screening.

On the shorts side of things, Zoran Maslic’s music video for singer-songwriter Chad Fontaine’s The Life We Had was shot in Toronto. “Normie” writer/director Daniel Ira Couchie grew up on the north shore of Lake Superior. Kyle Martellacci, director of Candy Skin, hails from Ottawa, Ontario.

The director of Pow, Doug Lewis, is a student at Canadore College in North Bay, Ontario. Anders Gatten made Onslaught of the Plant People in Oakville, Ontario for his studies in Sheridan College's Bachelor of Film and Television program.

All the way from Vancouver, British Columbia is Paul Dombrovskis’ In Search Of. Two filmmakers from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario are returning to the festival with documentary shorts.

Michael Gingras has An Interview with Jim McCarty of the Yardbirds, while Adam Gualtieri brings Together Is Home. Adam received the Audience Award for his documentary short A Place Like Home at the 2015 Soo Film Festival.

“Our neighbors continue to be a big part of the festival and it is great to see the wide range of films coming from Canada,” said festival vice president Jason Markstrom.

The 2016 Soo Film Festival is September 16-18 at the historic Soo Theatre in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The schedule, festival guide, and tickets are available at soofilmfestival.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the Soo Theatre office at 534 Ashmun Street.

Soo Film Festival, Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and host film and allied arts festivals in the City of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.  

Soo Film Festival, Inc. seeks to showcase the work of independent and emerging filmmakers from the Great Lakes of North America while bringing movies back to downtown Sault Ste. Marie and the historic Soo Theatre.  Our Mission: Great Lakes, Great Movies!

The most up-to-date festival news is online. Find the festival on Facebook at facebook.com/SooFilmFestival and on Twitter at twitter.com/SooFilmFest.

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