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Inaugural film festival a sellout

Timmins Film Society, hosting three-day festival beginning Friday, already looking towards building on this event's success.

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Timmins Film Society will be hosting its first film festival featuring five different movies at the Timmins Cinema 6 theatre.

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The festival begins this Friday and runs to Sunday.

Christy Marinig, member of the Timmins Film Society, said they have sold out all the tickets for the film festival.

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Starting the festival on Friday, the film society will be showing the first movie named “All Is True” at 6:30 p.m. The film is a British fictional historical. It takes its title from an alternative name for Shakespeare’s play Henry VIII.

Following the screening, a gala event will be held at Timmins Museum at around 8:30 p.m.

“During the gala event we will review the contest winners of our short film contest,” said Marinig.

On Saturday, a movie entitled “A Colony,” a French-language Canadian drama film from Quebec will be shown beginning at noon, followed by a panel discussion at 3:30 p.m.

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“For the panel discussion, we will have William Woods who is a Toronto-based film producer and Albert Shin, a Canadian screenwriter, who will be here in Timmins to talk about how movies are made and much more.”

Marinig said after the panel discussion, they will show another movie called “Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love,” which is a musical documentary directed by Nick Broomfield. It is based on a relationship of songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen with his muse, Marianne Ihlen.

Also on Saturday, beginning at 8 p.m., the festival will be screening the last movie show for the day named “The Last Black Man in San Francisco.” It is an American drama film directed and produced by Joe Talbot.

Marinig said on Sunday, at 1 p.m., the film society will host the last movie of the festival entitled “The Grizzlies,” which is a Canadian sports drama film based on a true story. The film depicts a lacrosse team that was set up to help combat an epidemic of youth suicide in the community of Kugluktuk, Nunavut.

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Marinig said all five films are new releases from the Toronto International Film Festival that will be featured during the festival this weekend.

“We show movies monthly with the Timmins Film Society and we wanted to make sure that Timmins also had a chance of having a festival once, so we can bring more movies to the local audiences,” said Marinig.

She said they were hoping to create a buzz about the film festival and draw residents from some of the outside communities along Highway 11 to see some of these movies.

“We are very enthusiastic and very glad that the community supported us and purchased the tickets as quickly as they did,” said Marinig. “It shows that the audiences in Timmins would like to see more of these types of events in future.”

She said the Timmins Film Society is looking build on this success and host an even bigger festival next year.

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