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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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BON VOYAGE

By Ryan McKenna | 00:05:37 | Narrative-Fiction | 02/02/2009

Franco Manitobans on the 'fast' track to extinction. Irreverent homage to the city of my birth.

Controversies

By Ryan McKenna | 00:16:37 | Documentary | 01/03/2014

Using archival audio from the popular Action Line talk show, when it was a cultural phenomena in Winnipeg in the 1980s, the moderator â Peter Warren â has been edited out, focusing instead on the colorful characters that would call-in. Controversies unfolds like a filmed picture book, as we watch people listen to the various…

Open Window

By Ryan McKenna | 00:27:00 | Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 1/5/2005

When a reclusive student becomes enamoured with his aloof neighbour, he poses as a random caller and slowly wins her trust. Things go wrong when Romans roommate recognizes his new girlfriend.

Knights of the Blue Collar

By Ryan McKenna | 00:08:30 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/2007

The Cathedral is on fire and the painters responsible seem more interested with saving the loot than putting out the fire. After a miraculous escape they trek the prairies in pursuit of two beautiful musicians. The courting does not last as the women rob the painters and leave them with a hapless child

Uniform, The

By Ryan McKenna | 00:22:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/2008

Trapped in a parabolic nightmare, Joe just cannot figure out why her work pants do not fit, and how to put a stop to her promiscuous mother, who keeps her lover and disowned son secretly stowed away.

Chinatown

By Ryan McKenna | 00:09:30 | Drama, Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/2009

A multi-layered epic set in the heart of Winnipegâs historic Chinatown. It is the story of a half-baked opium addict, fighting to preserve Chinatown in the face of âprogress.â Photographed on old 16mm color film stocks, combined with found footage, and using a collage technique, Chinatown is a poppy-perfumed protest against the faceless/sameness identity smaller…

Honky Tonk Ben

By Ryan McKenna | 00:15:30 | Documentary | 01/09/2011

This short documentary explores the subjects of yodeling cowboys, honky tonk music, and the joy of creating extravagant pianos. Through first person style interviews with friends and family, we get a detailed account of folk artist Ben Cormierâs process, as well as insights into what it was like to play on one of his colorful…

First Winter, The

By Ryan McKenna | 01:12:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 01/10/2012

A young man in Portugal impregnates a vacationing Canadian and must face the inhospitable prairie landscape and its hopeless denizens when he emigrates to join her.

Survival Lessons

By Ryan McKenna | 00:56:33 | Documentary | 01/04/2013

The 1980s saw the birth of prairie post-modern cinema, a Winnipeg art movement that gained major international acclaim. At the centre of the movement was the subversive Greg Klymkiw, who produced, acted in and distributed all of the major works of Guy Maddin. Survival Lessons is a humorous film featuring candid interviews with Klymkiw and…

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The Winnipeg Film Group is located on Treaty 1 Territory and on the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples and in the homeland of the Métis Nation. We offer our respect and gratitude to the traditional caretakers of this land.

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