Globe and Mail Critic's Pic

A nice review in today's Globe and Mail

Scouts are Cancelled is "a literary portrait you won't soon forget."

- Henrietta Walmark

Scouts Premieres on The Doc Channel!

Dear Friends:

The TV deal for Scouts are Cancelled finally came through and it's debuting on THE DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL Friday, Saturday & Sunday at 8pm the 11th, 12th & 13th of January. Those of you in Canada please check it out and tell your neighbours! If you're not Canadian it's not your fault -- but go ahead and call one up and let them know.
http://www.cartt.ca/pressreleases/PressReleaseDesc.cfm?ReleaseNo=3870

And Scouts had it's best screening to date at THE ATLANTIC FILM FESTIVAL in Halifax in September. People laughed. Phewww! (Everyone was SO quiet in Toronto.)
Also it won a $1000.00 prize THE REX TASKER DOCUMENTARY AWARD.


We also got probably our best review yet from the venerable Nova Scotia film critic RON FOLEY-MACDONALD who called it one of the best literary docs he's ever seen!
http://halifax.infomonkey.net/nova.scotia.news.events.php?e=scouts-are-cancelled

And THE NEW YORK TIMES site wrote up a nice overview of it:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/395714/Scouts-Are-Cancelled/overview

Oh yeah and Scouts was a finalist for CANADA'S TOP TEN MOVIES for 2007! But didn't win.
Damn you David Cronenberg & Dennys Arcand!
Here's what they chose: http://www.topten.ca/default.aspx

Those of you in Ithaca or nearby watch for the New York premiere coming in early April with THE FINGER LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL.

Thanks for your support and patience!

All my best in 2008!

John
www.magpieproductions.com

Wow!

We just won the Rex Tasker Documentary Award for Best Atlantic Canadian Documentary at the Atlantic Film Festival yesterday!


And in August 'Scouts' won the Best Doc award at the UFVA conference in Texas.

We're hot!

J

Atlantic Film Festival

A local review!

Halifax's own Ron Foley-MacDonald reviews Scouts here.

BTW, The homecoming for "Scouts are Cancelled" will be at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, scheduled for Saturday September 22nd.


For tickets to Scouts and other info, to the Atlantic Film Festival site


Check out the other great film's at the festival site here.