North Country Cinema
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| Formation | 2005 |
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| Type | Artist collective |
| Purpose | Director-driven film and video |
| Headquarters | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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Key people
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Alexander Carson Cameron Macgowan Kyle Thomas |
| Website | www |
North Country Cinema is a Canadian media arts collective based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The company was founded in 2005 by filmmakers Alexander Carson, Nicholas Martin, and Kyle Thomas, who met at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. North Country Cinema produces and distributes director-driven film and video content, and has created award-winning works that have screened at major international festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival and SXSW.
In 2011, Carson and Thomas completed "We Refuse To Be Cold" and Not Far From The Abattoir, respectively. These films combined to screen at over twenty-five international festivals and were both acquired by CBC Television for broadcast in 2012 and 2013. Both films focus on intimate narratives and personal storytelling, drawing from the experimental European New Wave cinemas of the 1960s and the gritty, character-driven American Cinema of the 1970s. In 2011, Calgary-based filmmaker Cameron Macgowan joined North Country Cinema following a collaboration with Thomas as producing partners on Not Far From The Abattoir. Although Nicholas Martin still collaborates with Carson and Thomas in various capacities, he is no longer a producing partner.
In 2013, North Country Cinema began production on Thomas' feature film The Valley Below, a multi-narrative drama set in the badlands of central Alberta. Following the announcement that the film would be funded through their inaugural Micro-Budget Production Program, Telefilm Canada named Kyle Thomas one of "10 Canadians to Watch at Cannes" in 2013.The Valley Below, originally titled Down In The Valley, was renamed to address "practical and creative concerns regarding the public representation of the film going forward" on August 15, 2013.
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