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It’s All In Your Head, a horror short from writer/director Greg Jeffs (NSI Features First), airs on TV nationwide via CBC’s Canadian Reflections on October 18 – just in time for Halloween.

It’s All In Your Head is a dark fairy tale about a young girl and the monsters in her closet.

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NSI Features First-developed Level 16 from writer/director Danishka Esterhazy has its east coast premiere next week in New York as part of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.

Level 16 is a dystopian science-fiction thriller set in a strict boarding home for girls. Trapped in a sterile facility, 16-year-old Vivien (Katie Douglas) is taught the finer points of ‘feminine virtues’ by a Stepford-like headmistress (Sara Canning) and left to question what fate awaits her when she ages out of the institution.

Level 16 screens Wednesday, October 17 at Nitehawk Cinema.

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NSI Features First provides development training for writer/producer teams looking to produce their first or second feature film with strong commercial appeal.

NSI Features First is funded by Presenting Sponsor Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Super Channel, Corus Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment; Provincial Sponsor Creative BC through the Daryl Duke and William Vince Scholarship Fund; and Industry Supporters William F. White and Deluxe. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

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Lots of film screenings and panels involving NSI grads at this year’s St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival which kicks off next week in Newfoundland.

Screenings

• An Audience of Chairs (opening night film) from writer Rosemary House (NSI Features First) and director Deanne Foley (NSI Totally Television)

• The Woman Who Loves Giraffes from Joanne Jackson (NSI Global Marketing)

• What Walaa Wants from director Christy Garland (NSI Drama Prize)

• Falls Around Her from writer/director/producer Darlene Naponse (NSI Features First)

• Ordinary Days from directors Jordan Canning (NSI Drama Prize), Kris Booth (NSI Features First) and writer/producer Ramona Barckert (Script to Screen)

• Hopeless Romantic (closing night film) from co-director Deanne Foley, co-writer/co-producer Jay Dahl (NSI Drama Prize) and co-writer Iain MacLeod (NSI Totally Television, NSI Features First)

• Three Thousand from producer Kat Baulu (NSI Drama Prize)

• C Sharp & D Suspended from producer Justin Simms (NSI Drama Prize)

Panels

• Deanne Foley at Lunch with the Filmmakers

• Christy Garland at Doc Talk

• Lora Campbell (NSI Drama Prize) at Developing Digital

• Cynthia Knight and Jordan Canning (both NSI Drama Prize) at Women in Comedy

• Deanne Foley at Brunch with Hopeless Romantic

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