Evokative on the web

I was recently interviewed by James McNally for his Toronto Screen Shots blog.
You can read the result here!

I was also recently asked by Toronto J-Film Pow-wow’s founder Chris MaGee to write a little piece for his continuing “What film got you hooked?” serie of features, back in September.
Other contributors include Mark Schilling from the Japan Times, Jason Gray from Screen International, Todd Brown and Andrew Mack from Twitchfilm.net, Tom Mes from Midnighteye.com and Kevin Ouellette from Nipponcinema.com, amongst others.
My choice of film was Akira by Katsuhiro Oromo. You can check it out here: http://jfilmpowwow.blogspot.com/search/label/Features

Posted in In the Press

Evokative now has a Youtube channel

A few friends asked me to create a Youtube channel, which might make it easier to share the trailers and see them in environments where Facebook is blocked (boo).

And since I’ve not yet managed to figure out how to add trailers to this here website, you can now check them out there: http://ca.youtube.com/user/evokativefilms

Posted in In the Press

LE TUEUR en nomination aux prix Louis-Delluc du cinéma français

J’ai été très heureuse d’apprendre que LE TUEUR, qui prendra l’affiche ce vendredi à Montréal, vient d’être nominé pour le Prix Louis-Delluc du premier film!

Créé en 1937 et surnommé le “Goncourt du cinéma”, le prix Louis-Delluc récompense le meilleur film français de l’année. Il doit son nom à Louis Delluc, cinéaste et écrivain. Depuis 1999, un prix est également remis au meilleur premier film français de l’année. Outre LE TUEUR de Cédric Anger, les deux autres films en compétition pour le Prix Louis-Delluc du premier film sont ELLE S’APPELLE SABINE de Sandrine Bonnaire et VERSAILLES de Pierre Schoeller. LE TUEUR s’était précédemment distingué lorsqu’il avait fait partie des 10 choix de la critique de Variety au dernier Festival international de films de Karlovy Vary.

LE TUEUR fera partie de la programmation des cinémas Ex-Centris en version originale française et AMC Forum en version originale française avec sous-titres anglais, dès ce vendredi 14 novembre 2008.

Posted in In the Press, Theatrical Releases

The Evokative Launch Party!

The Evokative Launch Party occured just a few days ago to celebrate the theatrical release of THE KILLER (LE TUEUR).

We’d like to thank the Produkt team, Francis Théberge from TIND, Steve Villeneuve and Hugo Bissonette from Coop Video, the DJs Poontz and Melon, St-Ambroise and GURU Energy Drink, as well as everyboy that came to party, for making this night memorable.

If you missed the event, you may see the promo reel made for the event here and pictures here.

Posted in Events

The Official Evokative Animations!

The Evokative Animations got completed last week, with the music composed by Cristobal Urbina (aka DJ Poontz)!

The main animation features the Evokative bubble. Please check it out here.


The second animation features Evok, our little furry friend. Please check it out here.


Do a favor to your ears and listen to Poontz’s great mixes on his website.

Posted in Events

ADRIFT IN TOKYO and HANSEL AND GRETEL at the Toronto Reel Asian Films Festival!

ADRIFT IN TOKYO will have its Toronto Premiere at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival on Nov. 16th, where it will have the honour of being the fest’s closing film!

HANSEL AND GRETEL will also have its Toronto Premiere at the fest on Nov. 13th. For more info:
HANSEL AND GRETEL’s page on the Reel Asian website
ADRIFT IN TOKYO’s page on the Reel Asian website
HANSEL AND GRETEL’s event page on Facebook (become a fan of Evokative while you’re at it!)
ADRIFT IN TOKYO’s event page on Facebook

Posted in Special Screenings

RYOO Seung-wan’s CRYING FIST finally coming to DVD in Canada!

I’m just posting this news very quickly and will expand as soon as there is a minute, we are very busy with the departure from Seoul to get back to Canada…

This one has been long in the works, so I’m extremely happy and proud to finally be able to announce that Evokative just bought the Canadian rights to CRYING FIST by RYOO Seung-wan (CITY OF VIOLENCE, ARAHAN, NO BLOOD NO TEARS, DIE BAD, the upcoming DACHIMAWA LEE…)!

The film, which was part of Cannes’s Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in 2005 (where it won the FIPRESCI Prize) and was the opening film of Fantasia that year, blew me away when I first saw it and was on the top of my wish list when Evokative was founded. This powerful boxing drama stars CHOI Min-Sik (OLDBOY, SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE, DRUNK ON WOMEN AND POETRY) and RYOO Seung-beom (ARAHAN, NO BLOOD NO TEARS, DIE BAD).

Like all other Evokative titles, CRYING FIST will be released in Canada before even having a US distributor.


I was very lucky to meet RYOO Seung-wan and his wife and producer KANG Hye-jeong not long ago in Pusan. Also pictured, Nicolas Archambault, Fantasia International Film Festival programmer.

Posted in Acquisitions