Meanwhile... PIT makes Toronto Premiere!

It's been a busy time for us at Rosco with extremely rewarding finishes to a number of projects.

One of these, is the Toronto premiere of our short film PIT which we wrote, shot, and edited in a span of two months last year!

I have to say, Canadian Film Festival is a new favourite! Celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, CFF is a vibrant festival celebrating independent Canadian films of a very high caliber. We were honoured to open the Home Grown Shorts program this year.

Proudest filmmaker moment to date: seeing my name in the credits of Rosco Films' "PIT" during Canadian Film Fest...
Posted by Katie Parkes on Sunday, April 3, 2016

We went down with Katie Parkes (1st AD) and our star Lindsay Stewart to represent the PIT crew and we had a great time. Festival director Bern Euler made us feel welcome and people were gushing to Lindsay afterward about his performance, which is both understated and spectacular, if we may say so ourselves.

One thing I noted watching all the other shorts in the program was that every one of them had some kind of funding - there were a lot of sponsors, Bell Media, Whites International, etc who helped produce their films. We, on the other hand, made PIT for, I think it was $500 out of pocket. Such an interesting difference, and yet our production was equal to those with $50,000 budgets. Of course, I would've loved a budget so that we could pay our crew but it reminded me that budget doesn't necessarily equal a good film.

We had a ton of great people working on this short and we would be remiss if we didn't recognize them all so watch this and clap your hands, wherever you are:

PIT Crew from Jonathan Steckley on Vimeo.