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Now that the film is completely finished, I’ve made a more official trailer for the film.

I’ve also set up a Birthday Girl facebook group.

So if you’re on facebook, do join.

Enjoy!

I’m very pleased to announce that Birthday Girl is premiering at the Vancouver International Film Festival!

The Festival runs from the 27th of September to the 12th of October. If you happen to be in or around Vancouver, the film will be screening Monday October 8th at 9pm and Tuesday October 9th at 4pm. You can check out the program guide and other films at the festival here.

I’m really psyched about premiering the film at Vancouver. It’s a great city and an amazing festival. I’m also really looking forward to checking out some other films at the festival - including Persepolis - one of my favorite reads from last year. I will be blogging from the festival, so you’ll be hearing a lot more from me.

A recap of the last month:

• We did two more screenings to perfect the colour timing and had to redo the credits about three times (due to legibility issues).
• I approved the final print last week (sound, image and credits)
• Vision Globale is in the process of doing what’s called an interpositive.
• From there we’ll make a master HD (high definition) transfer of the film so that we can start to mass produce some DVDs.

It’s looking great and I’m really looking forward to screening it for everyone here in Montreal when I get back from Vancouver! Details to follow.

SODEC is now accepting submissions for the 2007 Cours Ecrire Ton Court! competition. I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I submitted the first draft of Birthday Girl for this competition.

You can find out more on SODEC’s website.

Adding to their list of sponsors, Vision Globale is on board this year providing $4,000 in post production services.

Every year, previous winners show their film (I believe) during the award ceremony, which takes place in October. If they continue this tradition, I’ll be looking forward to showing Birthday Girl, hopefully with subtitles and all.

So the press release is out. I was very touched by the speech one of the jury members made regarding my script. She says “For the freshness and flair of the script, written with a delicate touch, all is not said but evoked.”