The Dark Bridges Film Festival is pretty damn incredible.
Dark Bridges Film Festival is Saskatchewan's premiere showcase of cool independent and foreign genre films. In 2009 Dark Bridges celebrated its launch with the Saskatchewan Premiere of
Grace and the Canadian Premiere of
Ink along with four short films. In 2010 the first full festival was held which showcased
12 Feature films:
Centurion, Dawning, El Monstro Del Mar!, Werewolf Fever, High School, Death of the Dead, [REC], [REC 2], Long Pigs, A Film With Me In It, Black Field as well as the
The Good, The Bad, The Weird. In addition, 7 Saskatchewan short films and 20 World short films received their Saskatchewan Premiere at the festival.
The Second Annual Dark Bridges Film Festival runs
October 13th through 16th, 2011. Plans for this year's festival include an extra night of films as well as an afternoon discussion session.
It is an incredible honor that our film,
DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK, will be playing this month, courtesy of
Dark Bridges Film Festival, at the beautiful
Roxy Theatre as a
Double Feature with
the TAINT on
April 22nd at 11:30pm. We have been so happy to have the film appear at film festivals across the world, but it fills us with special pride to show the film in our beautiful Canada.
But not all is well in Saskatoon. The
Roxy Theatre received an anonymous phone call a few days prior where an unidentified woman stated she was embarrassed for Saskatoon and couldn't believe that they would show a movie with that title after all stuff that went on in Vancouver with missing Prostitutes. She didn't leave her name or a number for call back. To be honest, it isn't the first or I imagine the last time that we will receive this kind of a call.
But what has happened now disgusts me. Someone took it upon themselves to rip down the festival posters from the main drag in town.
Officially, I have this to say:
"I am shocked and saddened that someone in this day and age could be so closed minded about the mere title of a film. Without attempting to research the film in the slightest, they rushed to judgment and condemned something that in fact should be something that Canadians should be very proud of. 'Dead Hooker In A Trunk' is a little independent film made by a couple of Canadians that has, despite all odds and challenges, been seen world wide in a multitude of film festivals, won critically praise, honors, and awards, and has shown the world that Canadians are big time contenders in the film industry and their work deserves to be paid attention to."
Additionally, I have this to say. This is a disgusting display of ignorance. Canada is the land known as the strong and the free. I feel that censorship is bullshit and breeds ignorance. We've worked so hard to bring the film to where it is and to have someone in our own country vandalize our posters is an act of absolute cowardice.
If this upsets you as much as it upsets us, help us out and spread the word. This kind of behavior is intolerable, absolutely shameful, and, dammit, so very not Canadian. If you're in Saskatoon, please come out and show your support for
DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK. Say it loud and say it proud.
And please help spread the word. I will keep you posted on how things unfold. It now looks likely that the event will be canceled. I think this is unacceptable. How about you guys? You can call
the Roxy theatre at
(306) 955-8642 and tell them that you support
DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK.
Yes, we can, boys and grrls. Thank you for supporting independent film and freedom of speech.
~Jen