How much of your own life are you willing to risk? Laura Poitras, Academy Award winning director of CITIZENFOUR, returns with her most personal and intimate film to date. Filmed over six years, RISK is a complex and volatile character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in … Read more
The Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with a 40th Anniversary screening of director Joe Dante‘s “biting’ satire on werewolf movies, THE HOWLING. Dee Wallace (E.T.) stars as Karen White, a LA news anchor with a serial killer for a stalker, leads the man into a trap where the police are able … Read more
The Rio Grind Film Festival’s Short Film Block! Shorts from Vancouver and beyond will be screened, with $500 cash prizes to Best Canadian and Best International shorts. Thursday, November 21 Doors 5:00 pm | Event 6:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Advance tickets HERE Contraception (Becca Kozak, Canada) How to … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for the Rio Grind Film Festival‘s annual Short Film Block, featuring the best of this year’s submissions from Canada and around the world. Saturday, November 24 Doors 3:30 pm | Shorts start at 4:00 pm Advance tickets $12 HERE | $14 at the door *Minors permitted in the balcony. … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for what may be the absolute best Short Film Screening event in the history of Vancouver, ever. It’s the Rio Grind Film Festival’s 2016 lineup, and it is good. In fact, it’s so good that we’re presenting it over the course of two days! This year, we were fortunate … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for what may be the absolute BEST Short Film Screening event in the history of Vancouver, ever. It’s the Rio Grind Film Festival‘s 2016 lineup, and it is good. In fact, it’s so good that we’re presenting it over the course of two days! This year, we were fortunate … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Rio Grind Film Festival concludes on Sunday, November 28 with a screening of a slice of something seriously 80’s, the oft-requested, always capitalized, cult-classic RAD. In celebration of its 35th anniversary, the 1986 BMX racing film has returned to theaters with a new 35th anniversary restoration. Bill Allen stars as a bicycle-motocrosser … Read more
The Rio Grind Film Festival‘s Rio Grind Film Festival presents an encore showing of prolific Oklahoma writer-director Mickey Reece’s latest, AGNES, which has also screened at the New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in Austin. If you’re not familiar with the work of this emerging, “outsider” filmmaker, Reece has been compared to Steven … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s annual Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with French filmmaker Bernard Mandico‘s AFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE), following screenings at festivals around the world including in the fabled Midnight Madness lineup at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno (winner, FIPRESCI Prize), Sitges Fantastic Film Fest, (winner, Best Film) and … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, November 25 as we kick off the (almost) annual Rio Grind Film Festival with three (yes, you read that right!) programmed blocks of some of our favourite short film submissions from Vancouver and beyond. Our jury will be selecting some of their favourite entries for prizes, and … Read more
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