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Gillian McKercher is a Canadian film director and producer, [1] whose debut feature film Circle of Steel was released in 2018. [2]
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Gillian McKercher is a Canadian film director and producer, [1] whose debut feature film Circle of Steel was released in 2018. [2]
McKercher produced and directed Circle of Steel, which is a dark comedy about the safety culture of the oil and gas industry. [3] The film was shot in Alberta, Canada, and was one of six productions to receive a government grant. [4] Circle of Steel premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival in September 2018. [5]
Her second feature film, Lucky Star , premiered as the closing film of the 2024 Calgary International Film Festival. [6] It had originally also been announced for the 2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, [7] but was subsequently withdrawn from that festival by its distributor so that the screening in Calgary, McKercher's hometown, would be the world premiere. [8]
A graduate of the Director's Lab at the Canadian Film Centre, [1] she was co-founder with Guillaume Carlier and Nicola Waugh of Kino Sum Productions. [9]
Her third feature film, Scar Tissue, is in development. [1]
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, also known as Cinéfest and Cinéfest Sudbury is an annual film festival in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, held over nine days each September. It is one of the largest film festivals in Canada.
Waydowntown is a 2000 film directed by Gary Burns and starring Fab Filippo, Don McKellar, Marya Delver and Michelle Beaudoin. The film is a dark comedy that explores office culture and its effects and often uses surrealism to achieve its thematic goals.
Sex After Kids is a 2013 Canadian comedy film written and directed by Jeremy Lalonde. The film features an ensemble cast, and depicts various ways in which adults struggle to reconcile their sex lives with the demands of parenthood.
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Man Running is a Canadian drama film, directed by Gary Burns and released in 2018. The film stars Gord Rand as Jim, a medical doctor running a mountain marathon while wrestling with the ethical complications of assisted suicide after an ill teenage girl asks for his help ending her life.
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Orah is a Canadian crime thriller film, written and directed by Lonzo Nzekwe, and released in 2023. The film stars Oyin Oladejo as Orah Madukaku, a Nigerian woman who moved to Canada as a refugee after intentionally killing a man in her youth. Getting involved in a money laundering scheme in the hopes of finally being able to bring her son to Canada, she runs afoul of ringleader Bami Hazar, who orders the murder of her son, sparking Orah to go on a revenge spree to settle the score.
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