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Parnian Anaa Earns Multiple Awards for Capstone Project
Posted on August 07, 2025 The designer, artist, athlete and recent ECU grad was recognized for ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, which explores issues including colonialism, migration and ecology. Parnian Anaa (BDes 2025) is the 2025 recipient of several awards from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) recognizing her capstone project, ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.
Nimi Martins Receives ECU Alumni Association Award for Community Engagement
Posted on July 11, 2024 The designer and recent Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) grad was recognized for her project The Manicure Mixer. Nimi Martins (MDES 2024) is the recipient of the 2024 Emily Carr University Alumni Association (ECUAA) award for Community Engagement. The designer won for her project, The Manicure Mixer, which functions as a microcosm of her thesis’ larger ambitions.
Andrew Bryden and Scott Bryan on How ECUs Industrial Design Program Set Them Up for Success
Posted on January 09, 2024 The cofounder and apparel director of Mosko Moto discuss the value of finding a career that suits your passions, and how Emily Carr University prepared them for their unique path. In 2013, Andrew Bryden (BDes 2000) co-founded a new motorcycle luggage company with business partner Pete Day. The pair wanted to focus on rugged, functional, durable accessories for adventure cycling. Pete planned to handle most of the business logistics and marketing.
Kashish Hukku Jani Receives Graduation Awards for Community Engagement + Anti-Racism and Social Justice
Posted on July 13, 2023 The recent alum was awarded for her project, कला, which envisions the decolonization of art history and pedagogy. Kashish Hukku Jani (BDes 2023) has won the Emily Carr University Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement and the ECU Graduation Award for Anti-Racism and Social Justice. The Communication Design major earned the recognitions for her capstone project, कला (which means “Art” in Hindi).
Vancouver 2019 Review: THE LIGHTHOUSE, Startling, Darkly Funny Maritime Nightmare
After a sleeper hit and critical success with 2015's The Witch, writer/director Robert Eggers crafts a startling, darkly funny maritime nightmare: The Lighthouse. Like Eggers' debut feature, The Lighthouse is fully committed to the aesthetics, language, and atmosphere of its time period, in this case, late 1800's New England. The visuals here, however, are much more heavily stylized. Eggers shoots on 35mm in a claustrophobic 1:19 aspect ratio.
Vancouver 2019 Review: STILL HUMAN Features Incredibly Moving Performances
Directed by Oliver Siu Kuen Chan, Still Human tells the story of a friendship that blossoms between a man living with a disability and his live-in Filipina caregiver. Veteran Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong plays Cheong-wing, who was paralyzed in a work accident. His wife and son left him some years ago, and he is understandably having a hard time seeing his situation in a positive light.
Vancouver 2019 Review: PAIN AND GLORY, Restrained and Reinvigorated
Antonio Banderas does perhaps his best work to date in Pain and Glory, for which he deservedly won Best Actor at this year's Cannes Film Festival. He slips surprisingly well into Pedro Almodovar's loafers -- easier than sneakers to put on with chronic pain -- to play his onscreen surrogate, Salvador Mallo. Like Almodovar, Salvador is a prolific, successful aging filmmaker.
Vancouver 2019 Review: KILLER QUEEN, Love Letter to Exploitation Cinema
Nostalgia was the driving force for the creation of some of the most interesting and entertaining genre films (and television series) of the past several years. While it's typical for nostalgic movies to fuss over wardrobe, décor, and music selections, few have committed so fully to recreating a particular overall aesthetic as Killer Queen, a hypnotic, hypnagogic low-budget Canadian love letter to exploitation cinema.
Vancouver 2019 Review: THE WORLD IS BRIGHT, Touching to Watch, Thrilling to Follow
Mr. and Mrs. Deng were at home in Beijing when they received word from the Canadian government that their son, Shi Ming, had committed suicide in Vancouver, where he'd been living. The notification contained little detail, and the Dengs were left baffled. They decided to travel to the western Canadian city in order to get to the bottom of what happened to their only child. This search for understanding forms the basis for Ying Wang's fascinating, frustrating documentary.
Vancouver 2019 Review: TAPEWORM, Canadian Cringe Comedy
One of the very first visuals in Tapeworm, shot on lovely 16mm, is a decent-sized pile of bloody human stool in a field. This is really the only such gross-out image, but it establishes the tone for Fabián Velasco and Miloš Mitrovič's Winnipeg-set cringe comedy. Not to say that the film is shitty (ha-ha), but rather that it lingers on moments that one might instinctively look away from.
Vancouver 2019 Review: BIRTHDAY
In April of 2014, the Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea, on its way to Jeju island from the northern city of Incheon. It was carrying 476 people--304 of whom died, 250 of them students from the same high school, en route to a field trip. The tragedy received worldwide attention not only because it involved young people, but because the crew's incompetence and cowardice contributed to the staggering death count.
Review: HAUNT, Bloodthirsty Psychopaths Run This House
Horror attractions like haunted houses and escape rooms borrow heavily from movies in both their designs and their scares. They're commonly populated with Leatherface clones, killer clowns, and green-faced girls in need of an exorcism. Many will unabashedly use the soundtracks of classic horror movies like Halloween or Psycho as background music.
Blood Window 2018: TERRIFIED (ATERRADOS) Wins Best Latin American Film, And More
On Friday morning the award ceremony was held for the Ventana Sur film market. Of special interest to us at Screen Anarchy were the winners of the awards for the Blood Window program, the genre focused co-production program of VS. Demian Rugna's Terrified (Aterrados) was awarded the EFFFF Latino Award for the best Latin American film of the year by the European Fantastic Film Festival Federation. Jimena Monteoliva's follow up to last year's Clementina, To Kill The Dragon, won the Sofia Films Award.
Screen Anarchy Holiday Gift Guide 2018 Part One BOUTIQUE BLU-RAYS
Join Dave Canfield and Michael Cockerill of the newly launched MindFrame(s) podcast as they create a Holiday Gift Guide for Screen Anarchy. Part one looks at home entertainment gifts from boutique labels. Scream Factory offers up an outstanding Candyman SE, Blue Underground has released a fantastic 4K upgrade of Zombie, Arrow Video gives an awesome edition of John Landis’ little seen first pic Schlock.
Blood Window 2018: Takeaways And Standouts From The Pitch Sessions
While it is safe to say that many distributors and producers are growing weary of hearing how many filmmakers were children of the 80s. One trope of 80s cinema still has enough of a draw though and that is the children in peril genre cinema and there were a couple projects on the first day of pitching that got our attention that way. The first project, Bedtime, from Roberto San Sebastian, director of The Night of the Virgin, ponders what if violence of a film like Home Alone were real?
Blu-ray Review: VALLEY GIRL is Totally Tubular
Until now, I've never seen Martha Coolidge's 1983 film, Valley Girl. I'm not usually one for romantic comedies, but having recently lived in "the valley," I was interested. Of course, this is also the film that was Nicolas Cage's first starring role. Normally, a film like this isn't my jam, but I try to step outside my usual boundries now and then. This film is light and breezy, bathed in the warm glow of early '80s Southern California --- with a great soundtrack.
Phenomena 2018: New Genre Fest Debuts in São Paulo And Paraty, Brazil
We have some new friends in the City of Drizzle, São Paulo, Brazil. We were introduced to the fine folks from Cine Phenomena, a monthly film club in the city, and this year and they are about to launch their brand new genre film festival. Taking place in two cities, in São Paulo and Paraty, a seaside town halfway between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the festival starts this Thursday, October 25th and runs until November 4th.
Behold The Madness Of Velasco Broca's AUTONOMOUS GODS
Long time readers of this site will need no introduction to the cinematic oddity that is Spanish director Velasco Broca. We've been following the oddball experimentalist in these pages for over a decade now, initially drawn in by his blend of mystically inspired experimentalism - imagine Jodorowsky with, if you will, even more drugs - fused with classic 50's drive-in science fiction.
Now On Blu-ray: Giddy Gut Muchers & Ancient Boogeymen From Severin Films
Having previous written about several Joe D'amato atrocities like the Laura Gemser classic Violence in a Women's Prison, I thought I was somewhat prepared for finally tackling these notorious Video Nasties that I've somehow managed to miss for my entire life. I was wrong. Anthropophagous, a film that is in the running for the title of 'most disgusting Joe D'Amato feature', is a film that more than deserves its impressively repulsive reputation.
Vancouver 2018 Review: NO. 1 CHUNG YING STREET Champions the Spirit and Courage of Hong Kong
No. 1 Chung Ying Street is the latest from director Derek Chiu, a well-established figure in the Hong Kong film industry. The movie takes place during two periods of political unrest in Sha Tau Kok, a neighborhood that borders mainland China in Hong Kong's New Territories. The runtime is almost evenly split between the past and (near) future, with the same lead actors in dual roles. The first half is set in 1967, when citizens loyal to communist China are mounting protests against the British rule.
Vancouver 2018 Review: LUSH REEDS Balances Comedy Expertly with Uneasy Dread
Xiayin (Huang Lu) is a journalist in Nanjing, living with her professor husband and her dog, and expecting her first child. Increasingly frustrated by the restrictions put upon her reporting by her supervisor, she goes against his wishes to investigate a case in the country. Slipping back and forth between recent past and present, Lush Reeds tells a very specific and intimate story that nevertheless has much to say about modern-day life in China.
Vancouver 2018 Review: WANGDRAK'S RAIN BOOTS
Wangdrak (Druklha Dorje) is a spirited first-grader living in a rural farming village in Tibet. As the movie begins, his daily routine, walking to school with a neighborhood girl, playing with his wind-up frog, has been disrupted by the rainy season and his lack of proper footwear. The walk to school is treacherous with deep rain puddles, and poor Wangdrak has to be carried across by his friend.
Vancouver 2018 Review: THE SISTERS BROTHERS
The Sisters Brothers is an excellent movie, but it is being marketed in all the wrong ways. I suppose if it results in a financial success, then all's well that ends well. I worry, though, that once general audiences see the thing, they're going to realize it's not what they signed up for, and the backlash will begin. So, let me say this right now: The Sisters Brothers is not a wacky Western comedy, as the trailer would have you believe.
Fantastic Fest 2018 Review: THE NIGHT COMES FOR US, Brutal, Spectacular Action
All you need is a girl, a gun, and 30 million gallons of blood. Bullets, knives, and fists come in handy, too, in Timo Tjahjanto's extremely violent action picture The Night Comes For Us. The violence is brutal and explicit: broken bones burst through the skin, sharp-edged weapons slash their way into and out of body parts, and thousands of bullets thump into and fly out of bodies that take more punishment than is humanly possible.
Hey Australia! Win Tickets to See PROJECT GUTENBERG in Cinemas!
Chow Yun Fat and Aaron Kwok team up in Project Gutenberg, a crime thriller directed by Felix Chong, co-writer of the Infernal Affairs trilogy and co-director of the Overheard franchise. It tells the story of the Hong Kong police taking on an international gang of currency counterfeiters. Thanks to Magnum Films, we have FIVE double passes for the film to give away to our readers.
Blu-ray Review: THE GUARDIANS, Women Stand Firm on a French Farm
In 1914, warfare broke out on a scale never before seen. Millions of men were mobilized, but what about the women? As depicted in Xavier Beauvois' The Guardians (original-language title: Les gardiennes), newly available on Blu-ray from Music Box Films in a picture-perfect edition, the women faced their own battles. On a large farm in France, family matriarch Hortense Sandrail (Natalie Baye) is in charge.
Blu-ray Review: An All-Time Great Party Scene Graces Criterion's COLD WATER Blu-ray
Music rights took Olivier Assayas' 1994 film, Cold Water, out of circulation for decades. This is ironic, given the film's music was the principal element of its creation; Cold Water was conceived as part of an anthology of television works by French directors that had to feature a kickass soundtrack and at least one party scene. When the rights lapsed, Assayas had to shelve his film (which he had expanded from the TV-episode mandate to feature length).
Toronto 2018 Review: HIGH LIFE, Eroticism and Solitude in Deepest Space
Space is dark, a blackness that you cannot even imagine. And it is silent. Not middle-of-nowhere silent where there is still the occasional breeze that moves the sand or a sense of the air or sun which seems to have its own sonic frequency. I mean that vacuum silence, the one where even a scream would disappear. So what does one do, when one is alone, trapped in a metal container, with only a child for company, knowing that there isn’t going to be any change in circumstance?
Review: THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN, Incisive, Honest and Funny
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten’s acerbic question to the audience at the end of the Sex Pistols’ disastrous 1978 U.S. tour may have marked the end of that group, but for Lydon himself, this was only the beginning of his musical journey.
Review: MANDY, Evil Lurks in a Fever Dream Starring Nicolas Cage
In describing Panos Cosmatos' Mandy, the first word that comes to mind is 'admiration.' The picture reflects the singular, unique, and uncompromising vision of its director. Producing an auteur-driven horror film is an admirable feat in a business that often favors quantity over quality. Accordingly, it should come as no surprise that it took eight years for Cosmatos to produce his follow-up to cult classic Beyond The Black Rainbow. Fortunately, his sophomore effort proves worth the wait.
Fantastic Fest 2018: Watch This Exclusive Scene From Jason Trost's FP2: BEATS OF RAGE
Jasont Trost's FP2: Beats of Rage, the sequel to his 2011 cult hit The FP will have it's world premiere at Fantastic Fest on Saturday September 22nd at Midnight. The benvolent Mr. Trost has asked us to share a clip with you from his upcoming film. You may step to the beat down below. Despite hanging up his boots following the events of The FP, JTRO must return to the blood sport of Beat-Beat Revelation one last time.
Have Your Say: What's Your Favorite Burt Reynolds Film?
Last week saw the sad news of Burt Reynolds having died from a heart attack. The 82-years-old actor was known to have some health-related problems. Still, his death came as a shock, especially as it just had become known that he had signed on for Quentin Tarantino's next project. Still, the man already leaves behind a great legacy, as actor and sometimes director, with titles going back all the way to the 1960s. So we'll let him be the subject of this week's "Have Your Say".
Review: LOST CHILD, Mysteries of Pain in the Ozarks
Known for the lighthearted comic fantasy The Brass Teapot, Ramaa Mosley (director and cowriter) and Tim Macy (cowriter) turn toward darker territory in Lost Child.
Toronto 2018 Review: WIDOWS, Intelligent and Slick Commercial Cinema
Steve McQueen's whip-pan transition from Oscar winning 12 Years A Slave, to a star-studded commercial remake of a British TV-mini series, Widows, is crafted with such care and visual sophistication that even Viola Davis' character, Veronica, dropping off her poodle at the Dog Hotel has a sweet, satisfying symmetry in its framing. Veronica is boarding her pup in order to pull off a risky job stealing political campaign money, using the safe-cracking plans developed by her now-dead husband, Harry.
Review: GOYO: THE YOUNG GENERAL, Reversing the Hero's Journey
Warning: Full spoilers...but come on, it's a biopic! Are spoilers even possible?!? In the Philippines, we are taught to worship heroes from a young age. In primary school, we are made to memorize single-line descriptions of what to remember our heroes by — highlights, monickers, basically the heroes’ greatest trait.
STRANGE NATURE: Check Out This Exclusive Clip From James Ojala's Eco-Thriller
Strange Nature, the feature length debut of James Ojala, known primarily for his vfx work in film and television, opens in Los Angeles at Laemmle's Glendale Theatre on September 22nd. Billed as an eco-thriller Strange Nature is reportedly based on 'true unsolved outbreaks of wildlife mutations. It stars Lisa Sheridan (“Invasion”), Stephen Tobolowsky (Memento), John Hennigan (Minutes to Midnight), Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley), and Carlos Alazraqui (The Funhouse Massacre).
I KILL GIANTS Interview: Madison Wolfe Discusses Her Most Challenging Role Yet
At only 15 years of age, Madison Wolfe already has a resume that demands admiration. The young actress got her start opposite Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis in The Campaign before joining such high profile projects as True Detective, Joy, Trumbo, and The Conjuring 2. Her latest sees her taking the lead as Barbara, a high school giant slayer, in Anders Walter’s feature film debut I Kill Giants, an adaptation of the graphic novels of the same name.
Review: ISLE OF DOGS, Absolute Nerdy Fun
Already hotly anticipated by the director's fiercly loyal fans ever since the film's trailer was dropped by Fox Searchlight last year, Wes Anderson's brilliant animated feature Isle of Dogs does not disappoint and proves to be quite another little idiosyncratic gem in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Only this time, it all comes with a Japanese twist, unlike its British-themed predecessor.
Review: UNSANE, A Psychological Thriller of the Highest Order
Depending on your thoughts about Logan Lucky, it was possible to worry that Steven Soderbergh had hit a bit of a bump in the road last year, but fortunately the director of prized titles like Ocean's Eleven, Magic Mike and Erin Brockovich returns in fine form with Unsane. Starring The Crown's excellent Claire Foy as the most unusually named Sawyer Valentini, Unsane proves to be an utterly fascinating exploration of sanity that well and truly gets you asking questions.
Hey Australia! Win Tickets to See THE DEATH OF STALIN in Cinemas!
The Death Of Stalin is a political satire film that has an ensemble cast including Steve Buscemi, Rupert Friend, Simon Russell, Jeffrey Tambor, Jason Isaacs and Olga Kurylenko. Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be the next Soviet leader. Thanks to Madman Entertainment, we have 20 in-season double passes for the film to give away to our readers.
Neuchatel 2018 Announces Major Retrospective of New Zealand Fantasy and Genre Cinema
The Neuchatel International Fantastric Film Festival (NIFFF) has announced that its 18th edition will see a long-held ambition come to fruition; a major retrospective of New Zealand genre cinema.
Watch Scott Adkins in THE DEBT COLLECTOR Trailer: You Better Pay Up Now
I will readily admit that I have fallen into debt in the past and experienced not so charming people encouraging me to pay up. But. If Scott Adkins knocked on my door and asked me to pay what I owed, I would never dream of saying no. In the first trailer for The Debt Collector, however, we see a few people who haven't gotten that message yet. Watch it below and start saving up money now so you can see The Debt Collector when it opens in June 2018.
Review: PACIFIC RIM UPRISING, Giant Robots Punch Giant Monsters, Who Cares About The Rest?
Once in a while it's good to ground oneself in this trade. Even though I am first and foremost a movie fan, there's something about going into a press screening of a film -- even one I'm pretty excited about -- that forces my brain to start looking for the cracks between the brushstrokes.
Review: In ISMAEL'S GHOSTS, Creative Process Can Use Some Help from Ghosts of the Past
Could Ismael's Ghosts be seen as Desplechin's 8 1/2? That is the question that kept coming up in my head while watching the film. At 58, Arnaud Desplechin lends a deeply personal, metaphysical insight to inner struggles of a creative mind, even more so than in My Golden Days.
70s Rewind: VIGILANTE FORCE, Brotherly Love and Action Galore
As we edge into a world where Hollywood blockbusters threaten to consume every weekend in every theater in every country throughout the world, it's a relief to sit back, relax, and watch Vigilante Force (1976), which is far more entertaining than I ever could have imagined.
Exclusive ELIS Clip: First Performance
Where does greatness begin? In our exclusive clip from Elis, greatness begins in a crowded club where Elis Regina gives a scintillating performance. The singer began her career at the age of 11 and recorded her first album when she was 18 or so. Her great fame erupted out of Brazil a few years later.
CUFF 2018 Line-Up is Diverse & Eclectic - Lynne Ramsay! Freaks & Geeks! Blood & Donuts! Saturday Morning Cartoon Party!
The Calgary Underground Film Festival is coming up on April 16th, and their full slate of films for their fifteenth edition is an eclectic mixture sure to satisfy many tastes and moods. The opening night film is Jim Hosking's An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn.
Review: PYEWACKET, Dark and Disturbing Horror
Long-time actor Adam MacDonald has already made exciting waves as a filmmaker with just two features under his belt. 2014's Backcountry was a masterfully suspenseful woods thriller, wherein he employed a restraint that served to punctuate the film's moments of visceral terror. For his new picture, Pyewacket, he puts those same tools to work in a decidedly more supernatural vein of horror.
WELCOME TO CURIOSITY Teaser Trailer!
Check out the Teaser Trailer for upcoming crime thriller Welcome to Curiosity set for release in May. Welcome to Curiosity is the second feature from British director Ben Pickering and is the world’s first film to have raised its entire production budget through equity crowdfunding.
FilMart Hong Kong: Horror, Animation and Creatures Abound as 108 Media Boards Three International Titles
In the world of independant film, co-productions are increasingly important to filmmakers who want to get their projects off the ground. For distributors it may or may not help that you have your foot in the door by backing a project as well. 108 Media is such a company. Based out of Singapore, with offices here in Toronto and over in Japan and Hong Kong, they have come on board three genre projects heading into this week's FilMart in Hong Kong.
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