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. [...]

St. John’s is one of the friendliest towns on earth, and it’s really easy to strike up conversations with people that you meet. Since asking questions is one of my favourite pastimes, I was able to come home with some good bits that I will share with you here. First, if you’re lonely and needing [...]

Suffering from post-festival depression (PFD)? Feeling listless and counting the days until the next St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival? Who isn’t? Because we all know that film making is easy and you have nothing but leisure time on your hands, keep your pain at bay by throwing yourself into some useful work. 1. Add [...]

Mmmm. Pan fried capelin for breakfast at Kay’s Chalet Bed and Breakfast located just outside Lamanche, Newfoundland. These little guys are the staple of the Atlantic, feeding the whales, cod, and homo-sapiens most graciously. We thanks ya. The views along the East Coast Trail are spectacular. That’s filmmaker and pilgrim Sue Kenney, with Anita Shuper [...]

The whole conversation at Rosemary House’s inaugural lunch party was heard by the neighbourhood. “A friend who came late to the lunch today said she walked over and she could hear the party three blocks away.” “But you’re supposed to,” said an astonished Marlene Creates when told she was the only one who RSVPed to [...]

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 Filmmakers had [...]

Photo opportunities everywhere!! What’s a festival without pilgrims? Kelly Davis greets Sue Kenney as she arrives with Anita Shuper and Mai to the screening of Las Peregrinas at the Majestic Theatre. Some walk the walk, Thouly Dosios and Eva Madden talk shop. The Battery is where I’d like to live. But then again Hula-hooper Sherri [...]

I was thinking that there were going to be many sad goodbyes last night at the closing party of the SJIWFF. But oddly enough, we weren’t all that sad. Sure, we all had that “aww, summer camp’s over” feeling. But we also knew that we had made some really good friends over the course of [...]

See you all tonight at The VIctory where SJIWFF supporter Sherri Levesque of the Scope will host her weekly comedy jam. 10 pm. I will be there trying to hold off my festival withdrawal pains.

I love music. I love making playlists on iTUNES. I’ve got iTUNES playlists named things like Lazy Morning Sunday, High School Angst and Cocktail Hour Dinner Italian. If I were to make a playlist called SJIWFF 2007, for this year’s international Women’s Film Festival, which artists or songs should I put on it? And which [...]