Happy to report that the Canadian premiere of The Devil’s Tail at the Moving Image Film Festival was a success.
Part I of that wonderful article/interview came out just days before the screening, so that was great timing.
We had a full house and got a great response… our favourite was a young Mexican couple who thanked us for showing the real Mexico, and for our words about the country.
She was from Mérida and delighted to see her city and how it was shown on screen.
MIFFEST has a nice approach to their Offcial Selections; from more than 1500 submitted films they consider those they invite to the fest to be the best of each program to begin with. Then they have audience awards.
The Devil’s Tail won its audience award.
La Cola del Diablo ganó el premio de la audiencia.
Comrie’s acceptance speech was also truly hilarious. It went something like this: “I’d like to thank Telefilm and the OFDC and the Canada Council… I’d LIKE to, but I can’t, because they’ve never given us sh*t, so they can suck on THIS! Make the movie you want, when you want. Don’t wait for permission…”
So we now have a nice framed award and some production services and filmmaking software and, should we choose to accept it, a distribution deal with representation at the American Film Market next month.
Congratulations everybody!
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OH NO?!!#! Not ANOTHER set of laurel leaves!
This is amazing news! Truly incredible! And well deserving. Congrats!!!
AWESOME!!!
Chris, you always know exactly what to say…
Congratulations everyone!
Fantastic! Chis Comrie is blazing a trail for angry film makers everywhere! Fight the power! More interesting independant films and less funded crap!
BTW, that’s Trista DeVries of the Toronto Film Scene everybody, who wrote and edited the lovely article containing our interview… Thanks Trista!
Oh great, as if you guys needed extra encouragement from the world. Now you’ll be completely unstoppable.
Congratulations! That puts a huge smile on my face.
I have to stop drinking in public, or one of these days I’m going to say something I really regret. –Chris Comrie
With all the High-5s Chris got from other independent filmmakers and actors after his speech, I’d say his claim that he’ll stop drinking and talking in public is damn unlikely. SS
P.S. Jeremy B: calling us completely unstoppable? Thank you. That makes us feel unstoppable!
Great, great news, and more well-deserved cudos (I suspect, anyway! I’m just quietly waiting for the New Zealand screening over here.)! There will be more awards… of this I am (somehow) convinced.
Thanks Tania. Wish you could’ve been here for Moving Image too.