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Hi everyone.

The Ancaster Film Fest begins the second half of their fifth season with the following films: Young At Heart, The Visitor, Up the Yangtze and Boy A. In the first half of this year, we screened Lars and the Real Girl, Into the Wild, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Amal, The Savages, The Kite Runner, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and The Band's Visit.

Please feel free to comment or discuss these films or any other films you've really enjoyed this year. For information on the Ancaster Film Fest films link to http://www.ancasterfilmfest.ca/. The site also contains comments and rating results on some of our past films as well as an archive of all of our films.

Our two most popular films in the first half of '08 were The Kite Runner and Amal. Amal has finally opened across Canada ... unfortunately only in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Hopefully there will be the deserved support and it will open wider in the coming weeks. http://www.poormansproductions.com/amalfeature/ It is a horrible shame how Canadian films struggle to be seen across Canada. In our five years we've screened some great Canadian films including: The Corporation, Snow Walker, Wilby Wonderful, A Simple Curve, La Grande Seduction, C.R.A.Z.Y., Saint Ralph, Sabah, Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Away From Her and Shake Hands with the Devil. Try to see some of these if you've missed any. They're available at your video rental store and often at your local library.

Hope to read your thoughts on film on the blog.

Julian D.

When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it. Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild