Jason Filiatrault

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Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie was fantastic.

Highly recommend to anyone within the hyper specific age bracket of 36-44 years old.

I wish my old unread emails would just take the hint already.

That's a good Harrison Ford.

The only thing AI is good at is getting people to blame AI for terrible things instead of the terrible people that do them.

Happy for you

What is very fun is that Telefilm's "low budget cap" is 3.5M, but if you bring them a project at 3.2M, they will shake their heads in bafflement and say, "whoa whoa whoa... that's WAY too much money for a low-budget project."

Anyway, things are great.

Fun thing about the Canadian film industry is that even the high budget films cap out at like 6 million CAD. Which would make them micro budget movies in the US.

A sign that says, “Write what you no” but the no is N. O.

Is this anything?

Female Filmmakers in Focus: Grace Glowicki on "Dead Lover" An interview with the writer-director-star of this month's "Dead Lover."

"I’m not terribly interested in trying to create a perfect illusion of realism. I don’t find that super interesting as an actor or a filmmaker. It’s why I like Nicolas Cage."

For this month's column at @ebertvoices.bsky.social I spoke with filmmaker Grace Glowicki about her horror comedy DEAD LOVER

For the record: Robin Hood is famous for exactly two things - archery and redistributing wealth. That’s his whole deal. Socialism and arrows.

"This will be a hard script to sell." Fucking good. I have little interest in easy stories. I am tired of writing things that fit neatly into premade boxes. It is draining and unaffirming. I want to write broken mirrors with uncertain prospects. That's fun.

If you know your Douglas Adams, this makes perfect sense.

Being a working writer with deadlines is great but it's also unbelievably stupid. Like sorry guys I can't go out tonight, I am thirty-three years old and I have homework that I begged to do.

To be fair, no one else ran, I was unopposed and acclaimed.

In other bad news, I have been elected to another term as Western/Pacific region councillor for the Writers Guild of Canada.

This continues to be a challenging time for Canadian film and television (Heated Rivalries notwithstanding), and I promise I will do my best not to make things worse.

My reoccurring stress dream is just me slowly realizing that I've just bought a Criterion disc that I already own.

Is the movie about him getting them ALL pregnant? Because that’s what it looks like.

Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

I like that it’s just her Notting Hill space wig.

See how nice it feels to post something helpful to your community instead of regurgitating racist dog whistles and blaming asylum seekers for needed eyeglasses?

Good for you!

Remember to point out the hypocrisy, folks. They definitely care about contradicting themselves and being seen as having no moral compass or actual beliefs.

I mean, it’s not like that’s the core tenet of modern conservatism or anything.

Carney is a roller coaster of mild okayness and deep disappointment.

If you have the right face saying the right words at the right time, you've got everything cinema has to offer.
- David Cronenberg

I've submitted three humongous grant proposals over the last two months with one more left to do next month and I really hope one of them comes through so I can be a cool screenwriter instead of a stupid grant writer.

(no offence to writers named Grant)

Calgary Separation Referendum When?

holy shit

Ugh. The worst.

Super weird that Max Landis wound up being the worst Landis considering his father KILLED SOMEONE WITH A HELICOPTER.