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Karen Kain is photographed on the red carpet for the film “Swan Song” during the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov

‘Swan Song’ lets Neve Campbell explore her past and ballet’s need to change

Actor produces multi-faceted documentary about the National Ballet of Canada

 

Actor Greta Lee, left, stars alongside Teo Yoo, right, in Past Lives, showing in Williams Lake at Paradise Cinemas on Sept. 21. (Elevation Pictures photo)

Williams Lake Film Club presents Past Lives

Debut feature film for Korean-Canadian director Celine Song

  • Sep 19, 2023

 

FILE - A view of the stage at the Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, is seen Sept. 22, 2019. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Missing the Emmys? What’s happening with the strike-delayed celebration of T.V.

Awards show postponed from Sept. 18 to January 2024

 

Actors Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase on the set of Zombie Town, a Canadian film shot in Sudbury, Ontario and executive-produced by Rahkee Gillespie, a Cariboo woman now living in Toronto. (@Zombietown Instagram image)

Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase movie Zombie Town has a Cariboo connection

Film is a family-friendly film whose executive-producer is from Williams Lake

Actors Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase on the set of Zombie Town, a Canadian film shot in Sudbury, Ontario and executive-produced by Rahkee Gillespie, a Cariboo woman now living in Toronto. (@Zombietown Instagram image)
Dohyun Noel is Dong-hyun in Riceboy Sleeps. (Photo submitted)

The Xeni Gwet’in Traverse, Riceboy Sleeps to be screened by Williams Lake Film Club

It’s the last screening of the season for the Williams Lake Film…

  • May 1, 2023
Dohyun Noel is Dong-hyun in Riceboy Sleeps. (Photo submitted)
Mandalorian and Groku a.k.a. Baby Yoda dropped into the provincial legislature Wednesday as the provincial government announced $42 million over three years for the creative industries. (Wolf Depner/News Staff)

$42M coming to B.C.’s film, creative industry hit by pandemic challenges

Funding boost aims aims to help industries recover following the pandemic

Mandalorian and Groku a.k.a. Baby Yoda dropped into the provincial legislature Wednesday as the provincial government announced $42 million over three years for the creative industries. (Wolf Depner/News Staff)
Andy McQueen (Brendan), from left, Alex Ateah (Shannon), Romina D’Ugo (Alana) and Isaiah Lehtinen (Lawrence) in I Like Movies. (VHS Forever Inc. photo)

Williams Lake Film Club to present I Like Movies – ‘A superbly funny Canadian debut’

I Like Movies will be screening on Thursday April 13 at the Paradise Cinemas

  • Apr 10, 2023
Andy McQueen (Brendan), from left, Alex Ateah (Shannon), Romina D’Ugo (Alana) and Isaiah Lehtinen (Lawrence) in I Like Movies. (VHS Forever Inc. photo)
A man making a film based on his experiences living in Northern Canada in the early 1970s has found an unusual way to work on his project while travelling in the region. Johnathan Zoesman, shown in this undated handout photo, converted a Tesla into a travelling film studio and drove the electric vehicle from New York all the way to the Arctic Ocean in the middle of winter. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Johnathan Zoesman

Man converts Tesla into film studio for journey to recount love story in the North

Johnathan Zoesman and his partner took to the territories in the 60s to get away from the world

A man making a film based on his experiences living in Northern Canada in the early 1970s has found an unusual way to work on his project while travelling in the region. Johnathan Zoesman, shown in this undated handout photo, converted a Tesla into a travelling film studio and drove the electric vehicle from New York all the way to the Arctic Ocean in the middle of winter. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Johnathan Zoesman
Lady Gaga was captured carrying a Kilner Goods bag from an Okanagan designer while on the set of Joker 2. (La Maison Gaga/Instagram)

No Joke: Lady Gaga sports Okanagan designer’s one-of-a-kind leather bag

Nicole Loewen thought is was a joke when told Lady Gaga is carrying her design

  • Mar 31, 2023
Lady Gaga was captured carrying a Kilner Goods bag from an Okanagan designer while on the set of Joker 2. (La Maison Gaga/Instagram)
A new program at Capilano University focuses on the creative talent of Indigenous filmmakers. (Credit: Pixabay)

New program at B.C. university caters to budding Indigenous filmmakers

14 students from nations in B.C. and Alberta chosen to partake

  • Mar 27, 2023
A new program at Capilano University focuses on the creative talent of Indigenous filmmakers. (Credit: Pixabay)
Sarah Polley arrives on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Canadians competing in top categories at tonight’s Oscars

Filmmakers Sarah Polley and James Cameron among those vying for a win

Sarah Polley arrives on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Emma Mackey plays Emily Brontë, author of classic Wuthering Heights, in the film Emily, screening in Williams Lake on March 2, 2023. (Warner Media photo)

Williams Lake Film Club to screen Emily – playful, humourous, passionate imagination of Victorian writer’s life

The film imagines how young female writer in Victorian era came to write Wuthering Heights

  • Feb 28, 2023
Emma Mackey plays Emily Brontë, author of classic Wuthering Heights, in the film Emily, screening in Williams Lake on March 2, 2023. (Warner Media photo)
Family Down the Fraser follows the Wright Family on a river rafting trip. (Family Down the Fraser/NFB)

Fraser River film from 1978 restored, released by National Film Board

Richard and Rochelle Wright, and their two sons filmed on epic river adventure in large raft

Family Down the Fraser follows the Wright Family on a river rafting trip. (Family Down the Fraser/NFB)
Michael Mylonas, from left, Jimmy Lulua, Nelson William and Brian Finnie stand next to a cairn atop a mountain they climbed during their trip across the Coast Mountains from Nemiah Valley to the coast. (Jimmie Lulua photo)

Xeni Gwet’in Bute Inlet hikers converge on Whistler for film premiere

Hikers who participated in historic hike to Bute Inlet to attend film premiere in Whistler tonight

Michael Mylonas, from left, Jimmy Lulua, Nelson William and Brian Finnie stand next to a cairn atop a mountain they climbed during their trip across the Coast Mountains from Nemiah Valley to the coast. (Jimmie Lulua photo)
Close will be screening on Thursday Feb. 9 at the Paradise Cinemas (78 Third Ave South). (Photo submitted)

Club brings Oscar-nominated film Close to Williams Lake

This is the second feature film by Belgian filmmaker and screenwriter Lukas Dhont

  • Feb 5, 2023
Close will be screening on Thursday Feb. 9 at the Paradise Cinemas (78 Third Ave South). (Photo submitted)
Cariboo photographer Chris Harris will be presenting a slideshow titled Emerging Landscapes at the next Williams Lake Film Club presentation on Jan. 12. (Chris Harris photo)

Williams Lake Film Club screening award winning Geographies of Solitude Jan. 12

Photographer Chris Harris will also present an introductory slideshow

  • Jan 7, 2023
Cariboo photographer Chris Harris will be presenting a slideshow titled Emerging Landscapes at the next Williams Lake Film Club presentation on Jan. 12. (Chris Harris photo)
FILE - Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who are playing the title roles in Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet,” place flowers on the “Tomba di Giulietta”, or the Tomb of Juliet, in Verona, northern Italy, on Oct. 22, 1968. The two stars of 1968’s “Romeo and Juliet” sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens. (AP Photo/File)

VIDEO: ‘Romeo & Juliet’ stars sue over 1968 film’s teen nude scene

Now in their 70s, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were 15 and 16 at the time of the shoot

FILE - Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who are playing the title roles in Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet,” place flowers on the “Tomba di Giulietta”, or the Tomb of Juliet, in Verona, northern Italy, on Oct. 22, 1968. The two stars of 1968’s “Romeo and Juliet” sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens. (AP Photo/File)
Summer Testawich, right, did not plan on getting into acting. It was her mom Cricket Testawich, who agreed to share the cost of some photographs, which accidentally lead to Summer landing a lead role in a motion picture. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

Accidental actress has her big screen debut in Williams Lake in Bones of Crows

Summer Testawich is touring with the film in which she stars

Summer Testawich, right, did not plan on getting into acting. It was her mom Cricket Testawich, who agreed to share the cost of some photographs, which accidentally lead to Summer landing a lead role in a motion picture. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
cə̓q̓cq̓am (Thunder) Ryan Oliverius of Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB) and Shayla Raine, a nehiyaw iskwew from Louis Bull Tribe, have created a docu-series together called Decolonizing Wellness. (Submitted photo)

B.C. documentary series explores couple’s journey to decolonize wellness

Couple experiments with cutting out phones and TV, meditating in nature and making hand drums

  • Dec 1, 2022
cə̓q̓cq̓am (Thunder) Ryan Oliverius of Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB) and Shayla Raine, a nehiyaw iskwew from Louis Bull Tribe, have created a docu-series together called Decolonizing Wellness. (Submitted photo)
Breelyn Grinder and Paul Grinder were the local hunters who helped guide Art Napoleon and Dan Hayes on their moose hunt in the Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin). (Mooswa Films photo)

Food, culture combine in tv episode filmed at Tl’etinqox in the Chilcotin

Moosemeat & Marmalade docuseries episode using local guides to gather food, streaming on APTN

Breelyn Grinder and Paul Grinder were the local hunters who helped guide Art Napoleon and Dan Hayes on their moose hunt in the Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin). (Mooswa Films photo)