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Fans of the annual Blacklist will notice top tier items from 2008 in Oranges (#2) and Butter (#3) are going into production. Butter still has some casting work before setting up shop in Louisana. The state will also be the host to the next Duplass comedy entitled, Jeff Who Lives at Home.

Call this a post-Oscars afterthought, but I think the inaugural 2005 blacklist for un-produced screenplays is working out to be a fairly good predictor/barometer in discriminating the output of quality films and misfires.

An impression amount of submissions (620 to be exact) in the World Docu Competition category - and looking back at last year's selection is...

It is award season in Australia again and the time for the small number of people in the Australian film industry to come together and pat each other on the back for a mostly mediocre job well done. The most prestigious of the three major award ceremonies that occur over the next month is the L’Oreal Paris Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. It is the ceremony that attracts big names and they like people to know that. Russell Crowe hosted last year. Who cares if he isn’t actually Australian?

Based in Northern Ontario, the film relates the unlikely relationship between an autistic mother whose daughter was recently killed in a car accident and the man - a complete stranger - who was driving her. For the first few minutes, the film starts off as a very conventional Canadian road movie until the narrative takes a turn for the dramatic straying away from the shaky camera aesthetics that characterized the first half.