Telefilm Canada will bring the best of new Canadian cinema to the UK this June and July. Canada Now, re-imagined as a digital festival for its fourth annual edition in light of the coronavirus pandemic, will premiere six new films exclusively on Curzon Home Cinema.
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“Helping Canadian films find audiences everywhere is central to Telefilm’s mandate,” said Christa Dickenson, Executive Director of Telefilm Canada. “We are determined to pursue our goal despite the difficult circumstances we are living through.
“The stories being told in these six films will resonate with audiences in the UK, as they have with audiences across the globe, and that making them available digitally will continue to make cinema culture available to people even as screens are closed.”
For further details check out the Canada Now website here.
The CANADA NOW 2020 film line-up:
CANADA NOW’s fourth edition is available exclusively on Curzon Home Cinema. The launch date for each title is listed below, and the films will be available for at least two months:
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FRIDAY 31st JULY | WHITE LIE
(Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas | 96 mins | PG)
Twentysomething university student Katie Arneson (played with arrestingly intensity by Kacey Rohl) is struggling to balance life and school. Estranged from her father and damaged by the death of her mother, Katie is trying to cope with not only financial stresses in her life, but also a recent cancer diagnosis. To deal with both, she starts an online funding campaign to pay her way through school and for the ongoing cancer treatments. Trouble is, Katie’s cancer story is fake; she’s made it up as a personal fundraising scheme. While initially convincing, cracks soon begin to appear in her story. Pressure mounts when her girlfriend, her father, university officials, as well as nurses and doctors, start asking Katie for proof of her condition. Her increasingly desperate strategies to maintain the fiction will lead her into dangerous territory. A fascinating, tautly constructed psychological drama, White Lie is a searching examination of millennial identity and morality in the age of social media.