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Title: Picture Day Directed by: Kate Miles Melville Starring: Tatiana Maslany, Spencer Van Wyck, Steven McCarthy Running time: 93 minutes, Rated R Special Features: Rolling With Picture Day Featurette; Commentary with Writer/Director Kate Melville and Editor Dev Singh; Commentary with Cast; Trailer Claire is forced to repeat her senior year of high school after failing Math and Phys. Ed. During the day she rolls through her classes, called names by a few underclassmen who are privy to an event in her past that made her sort of legendary. She doesn’t seem to have any school friends until she runs into Henry, a freshman whom Claire used to babysit. Claire respects [ Read More ]

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Tiff darling and award-winner “Picture Day” is now out on DVD and VOD. The film is directed by Kate Melville and stars “Orphan Black” star Tatiana Maslany along with Spencer Van Wyck and Steven McCarthy. The film takes a look at a girl named Claire (Maslany), who is forced to repeat her senior year in high school. At night, she indulges in a relationship with rocker Jim (McCarthy), but during the day, she bonds with freshman Henry (Van Wyck), a boy she used to babysit. ShockYa was happy to be able to speak with Maslany about playing Claire, a role that she said offers a unique perspective on sexuality and [ Read More ]

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Director Kate Miles Melville's debut film, Picture Day, won the audience award for best narrative feature in its U.S. premiere at the RiverRun International Film Festival, which concluded Sunday in Winston-Salem, N.C. Melville drew much-buzzed performances from Tatiana Maslany as a promiscuous high schooler and Spencer Van Wyck as the nerdy protege she used to babysit. The festival's narrative film jury awarded both the best narrative feature and best screenplay awards to Francois Ozon's In the House, about a brilliant, sinister French high school student and his writing teacher. The Peter Brunette Award for best director,

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Forced to repeat her senior year in high school, Claire's (Tatiana Maslany) reputation is sliding from bad-ass to bad joke. At night, she escapes to would-be rock star Jim (Steven McCarthy), while at school, she bonds with Henry (Spencer Van Wyck), a nerdy freshman she used to babysit. Eventually, Claire learns the difference between sex, intimacy, and friendship. From Ketchup Entertainment, Picture Day arrives on DVD May 21st. We have an exclusive look at the cover art.

Picture Day comes to theaters May 21st, 2013 and stars Tatiana Maslany, Spencer Van Wyck, Steven McCarthy, Susan Coyne, Fiona Highet, Natalie Bailey, Joanne Boland, James Byron. The film is directed by Kate Miles Melville.

The Lesser Blessed is described as a powerful coming-of-age story about a Native teenager balancing his romantic heart with a dark past that threatens to unravel his life. The movie is actually an adaptation of Richard Van Camp‘s novel of the same name, and comes from director Anita Doron. Today, we’re here to share the official trailer and some pretty cool images from the whole thing, hope you’ll like it!

The Lesser Blessed features a largely Canadian cast including Joel Evans, Chloe Rose, Kiowa Gordon, and Benjamin Bratt, and tells the story of Larry Sole – a teenage metalhead living on a First Nations reserve in the Northwest Territories who grapples with the challenges of adolescence.

Larry is a Tlicho Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, hallucinations and fantasies are hotter than the centre of the sun. At sixteen, he loves heavy metal music,...