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We said it earlier in our video Post Festival Depression Hits Hard After The SJIWFF. We said “Rachel Peters ate fire.”
What we didn’t say was that she was wearing a tutu.
Well, here […]

Watch out! Poet on the loose!
Liz Zetlin, Owen Sound Poet Laureate for 2007, performs a “Random Act of Poetry” on fellow filmmakers at The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival.
Rosemary House’s house was the perfect spot for this crime of art. The home was replete with filmmakers eating, laughing (mmm - those fishcakes!), […]

New York Fragmental - an ode to New York as seen through a cell phone.
By the artist not known as Bitter Irene. Music: Rhapsody in D Minor by Darkroom
Bitter Irene’s artist statement.
Since the early 90’s my work has been based on combining various media - acrylic, pastel, oil bar, soap bar, video, cake […]

Remember Cathy Parsons? She was volunteer driver extraordinaire at the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival this past October. She taught me how to walk into people’s houses without knocking and we also tasted cod tongues for the first time together at Velmas.
Well, bless her little environmentally green and eco-conscious heart. Here’s a great tale […]

Semanal.org and the yahoo videoblogger’s group are doing a one video per week event for one whole year.
Bitter Tonic has joined in.
We’re committed. We’re pumped. We’re late.
Tags: semanal.org, semanal, one video a week, irene duma, diana galligan, beer is good
If you enjoyed […]

We celebrated the season with all their naughty friends last week. Let’s see who’s on our list.
I see the Porkbelly Futures. That’s their second time on the list - good work Paul Quarrington, Martin Worthy, Chaz, Stu and Rebecca. Oh, and Teddy Leonard too.
The Gents are naughty too. That’s Bruce Pirrie, Bob Bainborough, Mark Baram […]

Remember SJIWFF* festival volunteer and Newfoundlander Cathy Parson’s who had never tasted cod tongues? Here’s a reminder - when she told her mom she’d got a scolding from Kay at Kay’s Chalet B&B, her mom said “well you just tell them you’re from town.”
Well, we fixed that when a bunch of us went off to […]

Michelle McCree reports from the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival Closing Night Party.
“Just let go a little bit. That’s what I want to tell this crowd.”
Hoop La party featuring DJ Mama Cutsworth, the Woop Woop Hoop Troupe, Rachel Peters, the fire eating animator, and a cast of thousands of hula hooping funsters.
Held […]

Argh. It’s November 20th. Exactly one month ago, we were attending the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival - sipping champagne at Rosemary House’s house, watching films, attending gala receptions, and woop hooping it up to the beat of DJ Mama Cutsworth.
But it’s all gone. And so very far away.
Rachel Peters and […]

The Cleanse was made for the “69 Hour Film Festival Challenge” part of Darryl’s Hard Liquor And Porn Festival, and it screened at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto a week ago.
Oh, this has nothing to do with the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival - I just wanted you to see it […]