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HANSEL & GRETEL in theatres from March 6th!
February 19, 2009
Evokative Films is very pleased to announce the theatrical release of the South-Korean dark fantasy HANSEL & GRETEL. The film will be screening from March 6th, for a two-weeks run, at the AMC Forum theatre in Montreal, with a Korean with English subtitles copy. HANSEL & GRETEL will then go on to play in Toronto from March 27th and Vancouver from April 17th.Written and directed by YIM Phil-Sung (ANTARTIC JOURNAL), the films starts CHEON Jeong-myeong and the young actors SIM Eun-kyung, JANG Yeong-Nam and JIN Ji-hee. A stellar crew contributed to the films, including Production Designer RYU Seong-hie (THE HOST, A BITTERSWEET LIFE, OLDBOY, MEMORIES OF MURDER), Cinematographer KIM Ji-yong (A BITTERSWEET LIFE) and Composer LEE Byung-woo (THE HOST, A TALE OF TWO SISTERS). When Eun-soo crashes his car on a country road, he meets a young girl who leads him to her beautiful house in the middle of the forest, where he is welcomed by her parents and two young siblings, who appear to be the picture of the perfect family. The morning after, when he tries to get back to his car, the forest seems never-ending and inevitably leads back to the house. Soon Eun-soo realizes he’s trapped in the kids’ gloomy fairy-tale alternate reality, a world no other adult has managed to escape alive before him.
HANSEL & GRETEL got attention on the International film festival circuit after being part of the official selections of the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (Pifan), the Sitges International Film Festival and the London Film Festival in 2008, followed by the Gerardmer Fantastic Film Festival and the Fantasporto International Film Festival this year. In Canada HANSEL & GRETEL had the honour of being chosen as the Closing Film of the Dragons and Tigers section at the Vancouver International Film Festival, to then follow with the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival.
| Posted in Theatrical Releases |
BLACK @ SXSW!
February 18, 2009
I was very happy to learn last night that BLACK was one of the six titles programmed by Fantastic Fest for the 2009 SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival and Conference in Austin, Texas!I believe this festival will be the perfect platform for BLACK’s World Premiere, which the fest nicely describes as “A nouveau-blacksploitation adventure awash in black magic, African Mysticism, mutant arms dealers, gargantuan machete-wielding mercenary armies and a truckload of knuckle-sandwiches.”
Other selected titles include much buzzed-about Ong Bak 2, The Horseman, Lesbian Vampire Killers, the Haunting in Connecticut and Pontypool. Now I want to go to Austin too!
Twitchfilm.net dedicated a post just for this news, which you can read at Twitchfilm.net. You may also want to visit the SXSW Film and Conference website at SXSW.com and the Fantastic Fest at FantasticFest.com.
Special thanks for Wide Management for working on the festival booking, and the Fantastic Fest team, helmed by Tim League, for selecting the film!
| Posted in Special Screenings |
So, what have you been up to?
January 29, 2009
Wow, I realize it’s been exactly a month since my last post. So what have we been up to at Evokative? Well for starters there’s been more travelling as I attended the Unifrance Rendez-vous of French Cinema, followed by the Rotterdam International Film Festival and finally Ciné-Québec. Many films were seen, a lot of hands were shaken and hopefully these will lead to some nice acquisitions in the near future.
I had my first radio interview for Simahlak’s Gumbo Radio on CKUT, which you can listen here: Gumbo Radio January 20th
We also welcomed a new addition to the team, Émilie Lacourt, who is now Evokative’s General Assistant.
Finally we’ve been busy working on the production of our very first DVD, THE KILLER (LE TUEUR), which will hit good DVD rental stores in March. Adrift in Tokyo will also finally be released in theatres soon, so stay tuned for more news very soon.
| Posted in Events, In the Press |
THE KILLER (LE TUEUR) in Vancouver for the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois et francophone
January 29, 2009
THE KILLER (LE TUEUR) will finally get to play in Vancouver at the 15th edition of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois et francophone on February 6th, 2009 at 9:30pm, at the Pacific Cinematheque. SPARE CHANGE, from Ryan Larkin and Laurie Gordon, will play beforehand.
This will be the only chance for those in the Vancouver area to see the film on the big screen before its DVD release in March, so make the most of it! You may see the Facebook event here.
| Posted in Special Screenings |
ADRIFT IN TOKYO and PARKING make Twitchfilm’s “Best films of 2008″ lists
December 29, 2008
As 2008 comes to a close, film critics are making their countdowns of the best films seen through the year. I’ve been very happy to see that not one, but two films from Evokative’s line-up have been mentionned in Twitchfilm’s Best of 2008 lists. 
First, Todd Brown, Editor of the web’s best International genre film site mentionned, in 2nd position no less, ADRIFT IN TOKYO as one of his 25 Best films of 2008. That means a lot because Todd sees an impressive amount of films every year and has a film knowledge that puts me to shame. Here’s what he had to say about it: ldquo;After a string of well received but generally middling features, writer-director Miki Satoshi vaulted into Japan’s top tier with ADRIFT IN TOKYO. The deceptively simple story of a down on his luck college student forced to accompany a yakuza debt collector on a lengthy walk through Tokyo is a wistful road movie run in slow motion, a love story to the city and the damaged souls who live on its fringes.”
Then Simon Laperrière, one of Twitchfilm’s contributors, mentionned PARKING in 5th position in his 10 Best films of 2008. Here’s what he had to say about it: “Programmers, please look into this film, it’s a real crowd pleaser. Director Chung Mong-hong uses the butterfly effect as a device to let us go throught various emotions with an impressive fluidity. Calling it an anthology film wouldn’t do justice to a script that keeps everything logically linked. Try to seek this one, you won’t regret it.”
See the lists and learn a thing or two while you’re at it: Films that Todd liked in 2008 and Films that Simon liked in 2008
| Posted in In the Press |
THE KILLER (LE TUEUR) in Toronto starting Nov. 28th!
November 23, 2008
THE KILLER (LE TUEUR) will start its exclusive engagement at Toronto’s AMC Yonge & Dundas starting Nov. 28th!Screening times: 1:45pm, 4:05pm, 7:05pm, 9:25pm
If you are on Facebook you can check out the event here.
| Posted in Theatrical Releases |
