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NSI alumni are bringing the horror genre to life at this year’s Blood in the Snow Film Festival (BITS).

BITS opens October 28 and runs until November 7. NSI alumni are represented in multiple categories, with some alumni as panelists during industry events.

Shorts

• We Came From the Sea – directed by Jeremy Lutter (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Features First), written by Ryan Bright (NSI Features First)
• Mama’s House – directed, written and produced by Robert Cuffley (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Features First)
• Trim – directed by Mayumi Yoshida (TELUS STORYHIVE)
• The Ballad of Sharkasaurus – directed by Spencer Estabrooks (NSI Business for Producers)

Web series

• Pallidus – directed by Chelsea McEvoy (TELUS STORYHIVE)
• Esluna: The First Monolith – directed by Denver Jackson (TELUS STORYHIVE)

Features

• Blood Thirsty – written by Wendy Hill-Tout (NSI DramaLab)
• The Return – directed, co-written and produced by BJ Verot (NSI Drama Prize)
• Paralell Minds – produced by Wendy Hill-Tout (NSI DramaLab) and Carolyn McMaster (NSI Features First); executive produced by Jeremy Torrie (NSI Aboriginal Cultural Trade Initiative, Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program)

Deadly Exposure industry events

• Undoing Tropes with Cultural Sensitivity – with Roger Boyer (CBC New Indigenous Voices, NSI Storytellers, NSI IndigiDocs)
• Online Power Round Tables – with Greg Jeffs (NSI Features First)

BITS will stream online through Super Channel. Check out their program schedule to watch these horror flicks right in time for Halloween.

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