Calgary International Film Festival

You know, I'm a documentary fan, so I'm excited to watch, you know, all kinds of good movies.

I've been, um, I'm on the jury of, uh, Calgary Film Festival, and I've been watching Canadian documentaries.

Cool.

And they're so good.

You really did define an era and you have paved the way for women in Canada, in Canadian rock and Canadian punk.

Her brand new film, Biff Naked, a documentary just premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival.

And I was there with Caitlin and we absolutely loved it.

It was an amazing, magical night.

Wow.

Well, wow.

Yeah, Caitlin and I were at the documentary at CIFF, at the Calgary International Film Festival.

So fun.

it was a long process, but then it was a very quick...

And then even quicker because we got back from Amsterdam and, um, Dallas reached out to Adam at CIFF and was like, "Hey," like, "Was that the short?" And he was like, "Yeah, send me something." And it was like, I was like, "What do you mean? Like, we just got home." And so they [laughs] got this lazy cut and threw it to them and, and CIFF was like, "Yeah, no, we like it.

You better hurry up and finish it." [laughs]

The ultimate in fuck it-

It's really important, really inspiring.

I completely agree.

Um, I, even, even when I was at the, uh, CIFF, uh, industry career expo thing that they had down at Chinook, which was a ton of fun, and-

Yeah

All right.

All right, so we're going to talk now about our part two, or part de, of CIFF, Calgary International Film Festival.

So we're just going to list off our Mondos.

I had surprisingly more Mondos in the back half than I thought I was going to have.

Yeah.

But today we're literally currently sitting here sipping a nice white wine, and we're about to make our way to the theater at the Calgary International Film Festival for-

We're dressed to the nines

It's true

Ghostbusters: Afterlife of course famously filmed, uh, just outside of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which we are currently visiting.

We're visiting.

Visiting, um, for the, uh, recording of this episode to attend the Calgary International Film Festival.

Uh, overall the movie ends with them, uh, I don't know, just like doing shot-for-shot remakes of it.

Before that, you heard Tom's conversation with Darlene Love.

The documentary about her life, called Darlene Love: I Know Where I've Been, will be playing at the Calgary International Film Festival this Sunday.

And that is it for Q today.

Q this week was produced by Simi Bassi, Brian Chung, Ben Edwards, Xian Eros, Vanessa Greco, Cora Njawan, Caitlin Swan, and Katherine Stockhausen.

vernon florida that's the one vernon florida is like the north star that's like the blueprint i think of all sort of doc of my documentary practice there's a lot of incredible documentary films a lot of really great ones coming out of georgia right now a lot uh uh there's a lot of amazing documentaries uh like sort of social realism observational documentaries but ultimately yeah it comes back to era morris and his giving people on the fringes time and space to be themselves and to say their piece.

I was producing a film called The Grizzly Truth, which actually played at CIFF back in 2022, I want to say.

And on one of our last couple shoot days, David Ehrenreich, the director of this film, came out and did some filming with us and we had a lovely time.

And when we were kind of in the parking lot wrapping up after, I asked him what he'd been up to and he told me he'd been filming with these cryonisists and these Vancouver-based cryonisists.