Prince Edward Island International Film Festival 2008

An English Detective obsessed with Jack The Ripper joins forces with a Louisiana Sheriff to unravel the identity of five mysterious female corpses. Together they rewrite a hundred years of history as they follow the trail of a serial killer from Victorian London, to the swamps of present day Louisiana.

NOBODY On a cold winter night that never seems to end, a shadowy assassin commits a murder and is then attacked by an assailant who seems to anticipate his every move. He escapes, but an ominous phone call confirms the impossible: his mysterious would- be victim is still alive... Time begins to fold in on itself. The people he met don't remember him. The wounds he sustained have vanished from his skin. He unwittingly kills a man whose body he himself had discovered only hours ago. As the two ends of the circle close in, the assassin gears up for a fateful confrontation with his own Double...

A four-hander that never gets lost in stagy dialogue or direction, "One of Our Own" is a "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for the Prozac set. Bolstered by a smart script and razor-sharp performances this impressively taut adult drama reps an edgy yet amusing look at middle-class fertility rites. Central couple are suburban Angelenos Diane and Stellan (real-life marrieds Claire Rankin and Josh Randall), who have been trying for years to have a baby. But when their surrogate mother has a miscarriage, they are ready to give up. Just then, Diane bumps into Cathy (Kate Beahan), a free-spirited younger woman who happens to carry babies for a living. Cathy's approach is a bit different from that of other surrogates and leads to an interesting dilemma for our protagonists. Far more troubling is the sudden appearance of Matthew Lillard's lizard-like Bob, who runs the refinery where Stellan works. The idea of his boss finding out about the surrogacy scares the bejeezus out of Stellan and Diane, but it becomes even more complicated when Bob falls in love with Cathy. "One Of Our Own" is a stylish breakthrough for Abe Levy working from a screenplay he fashioned with producer (and partner) Silver Tree. Storytelling here is scathingly entertaining, but the viewer still comes away caring about these supposedly grown-up basket cases. excerpt from: Ken Eisner ( VARIETY magazine) Claire Rankin is scheduled to attend the screening.

A dying woman’s wish brings six estranged friends together in the Montana wilderness. Lucy (Missi Pyle) has battled obesity her entire life and with the “little time she has left”, she wants to spend a final weekend together with her college friends like once remembered. Upon arriving, Lucy’s friends soon discover the reality of the situation isn’t what they had expected. On the flipside, Lucy soon realizes her friends are now a far cry from whom she had remembered and that her final wish wasn’t the best of ideas after all. Stripped of modern conveniences and no place to hide on an arduous four-day hike, the winding uphill trail brings to surface everyone’s inner demons and fears, with each member of the group taking something away from the adventure that they could never have imagined. This film has not been rated. Language, brief nudity.

The best short films hailing from the Maritime Provinces (NB, PE, NS)

When Jacob Goldstein's younger sister, Aleah, disappears without a trace, Jacob turns to drugs in an attempt to escape the torment. Ester, his emotionally broken mother, struggles to unite and rebuild the fragments of their family and finds hope in a landscape of sorrow and despair.

When presented with the opportunity to tell the girl of his dreams that he loves her, a young man flashes through a visual expansion of that single moment, during which he relives associative memories of their relationship.

When Matt Roymann inherits his fathers company he company blinded by obsession to provecan be leader. Driven by the memory of his disapproving father Matt sacrifices everything, including his marriage.As he is about to close a merger that can put Roymann Industries at the top. his wife Lisa gives him a final chance to save their marriage by asking him to step down.Torn between the company his wife, he signs the papers to close the deal. When he wakes up the next day he finds himself in a nightmare that will change everything.