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...
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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.

The Elmira Case - SOLD OUT!

1. Huge "thank you" to all of you who came out to see THE ELMIRA CASE Canadian premiere at the Grand River Film Festival on Wednesday, Nov. 4th! There was a great showing and made extra special with the reunion of Russell Kelly and Mark Yantzi, two of the stars of the film.

Ken and Jon introduce the film at GRFF at the splendid Apollo Cinema.

2. Our second screening at the epic Apollo Cinema hosted by our production partners Community Justice Initiatives on Thursday November 19th, 7pm is SOLD OUT!! That's over 300 tickets sold and a waiting list of at least 50 people. Thank you for your support! 

Fortunately, if you haven't got your tickets yet, there are two more FREE screenings set up with special guests and "co-stars" of the film, Mark Yantzi and Russ Kelly:

- Friday, November 20th

4pm - 6pm.

St. Jerome's University, University of Waterloo

Siegfried Hall, Room 302

- Thursday, November 26th

10am - 11am

Conestoga College Doon Campus, Blue Room

(Go in through Door 4 at "B" Wing and follow through to cafeteria)

The Elmira Case - Canadian Premiere at Grand River Film Festival!

We're thrilled to announce that our short documentary THE ELMIRA CASE is making it's Canadian premiere at Grand River Film Festival!  We love that this local story which still making waves internationally years later, is premiering within the community that started it all.

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THE ELMIRA CASE will be screening on Wednesday, November 4th at 7:00pm together with the winner of the Best Canadian Feature Documentary at HotDocs, Haida Gwaii: On The Edge Of The World (dir. Charles Wilkinson)

World Premiere: PIT at Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival!

Every once in a while, we get lucky with a story. PIT was written, shot, and screened within two months and it's one of our strongest creative efforts yet.

In September, PIT premiered at Cinéfest - the second consecutive year in which one of our films premiered at this festival! Cinéfest being one of the top festivals in Canada and the envy of every city trying to establish a film scene, we are honoured that they took a chance on us again.

Lindsay Stewart as the intrepid romantic, Harvey.

Jennifer Gough co-stars as the bewildered and beautiful Wanda.

Fantastic cast doing weird things.