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Congrats to writer/director Peter Genoway and producer Alex Molenaar (both NSI Features First) whose short film Masks screens this week at Toronto After Dark Film Festival.

The short is based on Peter and Alex’s feature concept of the same name developed through NSI Features First in 2013.

They’ve since added a second producer to their team, Ryan Reaney, who brought the project to the Whistler Film Festival Project Lab in 2015.

In the film, a couple of actors preparing for a show in an old theatre find the dress rehearsal isn’t going to go as planned.

Masks screens alongside feature Cult of Chucky on Friday, October 13 at 9:15 p.m. Buy tickets here.

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Congratulations to writer/director Eisha Marjara and producer Joe Balass on the premiere of their NSI Features First-developed film Venus.

Venus premiered on October 9, 2017 at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal.

Genders, generations and cultures collide in Venus, a comedy about the modern family unit which follows an Indian-born transitioning woman who discovers she’s the father of a 14-year-old boy.

Venus was developed through NSI Features First in 2014.

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NSI Features First is a development training launch pad for producer/writer 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 Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment; Provincial Sponsors Creative Saskatchewan and Creative BC through the Daryl Duke and William Vince Scholarship Fund; and Service Sponsor William F. White. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

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