For Immediate Release:
January 17, 2001
Fortress Films Inc. and Rumble Productions
SPECIAL PREMIERE SCREENING
Thursday, February 1st, 2001, 2:00pm
Holiday Inn, 1110 Howe Street, Vancouver
6 hotel rooms
6 reels
6 stories
6 screenwriters
HOTEL is a unique anthology of six short films about the lives of a series of guests who all pass through the same Vancouver hotel one fine day in July. More than 100 people took part in this collaborative project, which brings together independent filmmaker Robert McDonagh and Vancouver's all terrain theatre vehicle, Rumble Productions, six writers from across Canada, and a host of Vancouver's most celebrated actors. HOTEL is co-produced by Robert McDonagh's Fortress Films Inc. and Rumble Theatre Productions.
Writers:
Veda Hille Vancouver
The Electric Company Vancouver
Robert McDonagh Vancouver
Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan Winnipeg
Micheal MacLennan Toronto
Martha Ross Toronto
Please join us Thursday, February 1st, 2:00 at the Holiday Inn on Howe, and visit those six hotel rooms. Come inside, screen each short film in its room, and then join cast and crew at 2:30 for a Hall Press Conference, food and refreshments.
HOTEL will also be screened at the 7th Annual Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival in Victoria, BC, at the Capitol 6, Sunday February 4th at 2:00 pm.
The Bravo! Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent (Bravo!FACT) is an initiative of Bravo! to invest in emerging talent in our arts, film and television industries. Founder Moses Znaimer and Executive Director Judy Gladstone will be in attendance.
Fortress Films Inc. and Rumble Productions gratefully acknowledge the financial support of BRAVO!FACT, Foundation to assist Canadian Talent, and the British Columbia 2000, Arts Heritage Fund.