When the award winning documentary film—you know, the one that initiated your latest interactive storytelling web experience—premieres at the Vancouver International Film Festival, what do you do?
Send your Content team to soak in the glow of the big screen and task them with mingling with a star-studded crowd, of course!
THE BIG SMOKE
KONELĪNE:our land beautiful had its Vancouver premiere on Monday October 3rd for a sold out audience. North through South’s writer and outreach coordinator attended the premiere, representing One Net Studios and North through South.
We shipped Deanna and Carol-Lynne across the Strait of Georgia on a ferry and pointed them in the direction of the Vancouver Playhouse. Three hours and one orca pod sighting later, the women were live-tweeting and Instagramming the scene at the theatre, finding a few familiar faces from the film and transmedia community before noticing the legendary Canadian scientist and activist David Suzuki.
A WORD FROM THE FILMMAKERS
Everyone took their seats as the VIFF host asked the filmmakers to join him onstage to introduce the film. He shared how KONELĪNE has already triumphed as Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs and said the film “shows British Columbia in a beautiful, truthful and complex way.”
Director Nettie Wild and Producer Betsy Carson floated on stage and thanked their crew, cast and funders. As they took their seats, the audience cheered with anticipation as the lights dimmed.
ON WITH THE SHOW
96 minutes of art, visual poetry and complexity was handed to the audience of 668 film enthusiasts—including many KONELĪNE cast and crew members who were seeing the film for the first time.
(If you haven’t seen the film yet, check KONELINE.com for upcoming screenings near you.)
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After the credits rolled, Nettie led a group of six people onstage—individuals from Northern BC who were featured in the film. She introduced them to the crowd who cheered and applauded them like new friends. She then brought out seven members on the film crew, including the editor and sound team.
[Pull-quote: ““We shot and cut it, like jazz. It’s a journey into an amazing land … we wanted to reach out and see if we could surprise ourselves.” – Nettie Wild, Director, KONELĪNE]
Behind them all was a beautiful image highlighting both North through South and the next round of local film screenings.
Nettie described the process of making the film to the audience: “We shot and cut it, like jazz. It’s a journey into an amazing land.” she said. “We did it because we wanted to reach out and see if we could surprise ourselves—both in terms of form and content.”
Check KONELINE.com for screening dates near you.