22 — Friday,

October 30, 1997 — North Shore News

The Vancouver International Film festival

Fiu keeps star away
from film festivities

N Saturday night,

the Vancouver

International
Film Festival Anniversary
Gala was held at the
Hotel Vancouver.

A screening of the
Canadian/Bntish production
Love and Death an Long Island
started off the night’s testiviries.

In attendance were the film’s stars, John Hurt, Jason
Priesdey and Fiona Loewi, director Richard Kwietniowski,
and producers Christopher Zimmer and Steve Clark-Hall.

Unfortunately, Jason Priestley made only a brief appear-
ance at the screening, beelining for the exit, unable to
attend the party due to the “flu.”

We missed John Hurt too. In finding out it was non-
smoking event, I’m sure the Irish actor wasn’t about to
kick his habit to
please our sensibil-
ities.

We did hang out
in the men’s wash-
toom though,
hoping to run into
him when he dis-
covered that it had
turned into “the
smoking room.”
No John Hurt,
but we were not
lacking in compa-
ny as we made the
acquaintance of
other filmmakers.
After being polite-
ly asked to feave
by hotel security
we plunged back
into the crowd of
400 or so to con-
tinue our original
quest — to seck
and find celebri-
ties. It’s not very
easy when you

Matia Verdigchio

ACTORS Lenore Zann (from
Atom Egoyan’s next film
Babyface) and James
Gallanders from Reluctant
Angel and Babyface.

Documentary filmmaker

Argyle-grad Jason Priestley missed his party at the Hotel Vancouver.

NEWS photos Cindy Goodmen
ANDREA Goody (from Mina Shum’s next pro-
ject, a documentary called 5 Year Pian); Steven
Hegyes, producer of Drive, She Said, and Dean
English, producer of Kissed.

don’t recognize anyone.

Eventually we managed to get away without too much
damage to our livers (killer Crantinis) and seme great sto-
ries from local talent.

+++

Sadly, some 230 films later,
the 16th annual film festival is
ending on Sunday.

During the last evo weeks
of premieres and parties I
talked to most of the North
Shore contingent at the film
fest: director Mark Tuit from
Barnone, actors Laura Harris,
Tygh Runyan and James
McBurney from Kitchen
Party, actors Todd
McGillivray and Donny
McWilliams of Kenneth
Sherman’s The Time Being;
and Melanie Friesen, producer
of the festival’s Film and TV
Trade Forum.

LOVE and Death on
Leng 3 latarsel pro-
Aucer Chris Zimmer.

++¢

0 independent
it cards as we

Barnone was bartender Mark Tuit’s ansv
filmmaking. “My wife and I got as mary &
could, and that was our financing for the film.”

Shot at The Keg on Esplanade in North Vancouver,
Mark worked his regular shifts, then filmed after the restau-
rant closed.

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