Edsville
Background
Highlights
Financing
Financing
- A Wholly Self-Owned Production with 80 Contributor-Shareholders
- A Limited Partnership with 20 Limited Partners
- The First Production under ACTRA Local Production Initiative
- First Short Film to Earn Direct Box Office Revenue
- The Halifax Split: A Mandatory Extra Dollar Charge to See Edsville After Feature Film with Possibility of Dollar Refund if Customer Leaves before Viewing.
- Gross Box of $10,000 on four prints at 70 Canadian Playdates without advertsing budget.
- One Time Broadcast Licence to YLE Finland
- CBC Broadcast Licence
- Distribution Agreement with First Run Features, New York City
- New York Premiere at the Film Forum
- 15% Recoupment to Date
- First Airline Sale, Air Canada, 1998
- Theatrical Premiere at the Festival of Festivals, 1990
- Atlantic Film Festival, 1990
- Festival of New Canadian Cinema, Indianapolis, 1990
- Goteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 1990
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Comedia de Torremolinos, Spain, 1991
- Portland International Film Festival, 1991
- Tampere Short Film Festival, 1991
- 10th Santa Fe Film Expo, 1991
- Cleveland International Film festival, 1991
- Minneapolis Rivertown Festival, 1991
- Canadian Film Celebration, Calgary, 1991
- Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival, 1991
- Sydney Film Festival, 1991
- Jabega de Oro - Best Short Comedy - Torremolinos, 1991
- Golden Sheaf Nomination - Best Short Live Action - Yorkton 1991
- Genie Award Nomination - Best Short, 1991
- 14 share and 1.02 million viewers on CBC prime time premiere
- Festival of Festivals: CBC Network Licence, Princess Theatre - Waterloo, Gorge Cinema - Elora
- Atlantic Film Festival: Wormwoods Cinema - Halifax, Sunday Cinema - Charlottetown
- Tampere - YLE Finland Television Single Broadcast
- "Director Alan Marr's wryly funny 14-minute short is a one-trick pony.
But what a trick, what a horse! A short film is the tiny perfect way to
tell this bizarre story." - Jam Movies - "..perfectly paced and acted, right down to the facial twitch." Valerie Gregory - Edmonton Sun
- "...overwhelming silliness..." "...a delight...insane...fun." Marc Horton - Edmonton Journal
- "...the most anticipated flick at this year's filmfest [Festival of Festivals]..." George Anthony - Toronto Sun
- "...the horror in Edsville is rare and refined..." Peter Gzowsksi - CBC Morningside
- "..whimsical...nifty..." John Haslett Cuff - Globe & Mail
- "One of the funniest shorts..." Sarah Evans - Now Magazine
- "..long on craft and cleverness.." "..a whimsical delight.." Bruce Kirland - Toronto Sun
- "..an hilarous Canadian short..." Michele Hall - CBC Halifax Arts & Entertainment
- "..a crazy town..an ideal retreat from reality..wowed sellout crowds at Toronto's Festival of Festivals.,..very bizarre...very funny..." Mike Duffy - Sunday Edition
- "On the lighter side ... Alan Marr's "Edsville"..." The New York Times