Celebrate #CANFILMDAY with five films in this week’s NSI Online Short Film Fest

Press Release

This week’s NSI Online Short Film Festival films are brought to you as part of National Canadian Film Day (Wednesday, April 20).

National Canadian Film Day is a day-long celebration when Canadians from coast to coast to coast come together to watch great Canadian film.

You can celebrate great Canadian film all year round with the NSI Online Short Film Fest by checking out our extensive film fest archive and watching the new films we program every week.

Bat Boy

Bat Boy | Drama, 9:59, English, BC, 2016 | Director: Kheaven Lewandowski

The origin story of Bat Boy, and how his infamous photo in the Weekly World News came to be.

Kanada Girl

Kanada Girl | Documentary, 10:40, English, AB, 2015 | Director: Rebecca Campbell

Kanada Girl is a short documentary that follows Flora Kupsch, owner of Wild West Shooting Centre at West Edmonton Mall.

She was one of the world’s best cowboy action shooters, and was forced into retirement after, ironically, being shot. It follows her comeback and attempt to reclaim the world title.

Tallurutiup Tariunga (Lancaster Sound)

Tallurutiup Tariunga (Lancaster Sound) | Experimental, 4:00, English, MB, 2015 | Directors: Christopher Paetkau, Trevor Gill

Tallurutiup Tariunga retells part of the Inuit creation myth of Nuliajuk – goddess of the sea – in light of the profound changes facing local communities due to climate instability and industrial development.

It’s based on a poem by Iquluit artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, which poses a series of rhetorical questions to Nuliajuk who was tricked into marrying a raven disguised as a hunter. She tried to escape in her father’s kayak, but the raven gave chase and unleashed a furious storm.

Terrified that they’d perish in the gale, her father cast Nuliajuk into the sea. When she clung to the gunwales and threatened to capsize the boat, her father cut off her fingers.

According to the myth, her hands became flippers, and her fingers turned into marine mammals offering sustenance to Inuit for generations.

Le carnivore

Le carnivore | Drama, 8:12, French with English subtitles, QC, 2015 | Director: Michael Treder

A young woman is caught between the love of her life and the terrifying horrors that exist in her world.

One Night in Aberdeen

One Night in Aberdeen | Drama, 24:03, English, AB, 2014 | Director: Brett Ferster

On 08/08/08, as the Super 8 motel chain is on the brink of a massive change, two career loners – a traveller and a townie – have a chance encounter in the motel bar. In the blurry midnight hours, they slowly learn each other’s secrets.

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Our most recent festival award winners were announced last week: Flankers, Kate Yorga and Hayley Carmichael win cash prizes in NSI Online Short Film Fest

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