Tag: My Millennial Life

Heading to the Portland Film Festival

We’re heading west to the Portland Film Festival for the U.S. festival premiere of My Millennial Life. A big thanks to our amazing subjects, Hope, Emily, James, Meron, and Tim. And to our incredibly talented production team and TVO.

PDXFF is a non-profit independent film fest, co-founded in 2013 by filmmaker Joshua Leake. The festival gained immediate recognition as a launching pad and in 2015 MovieMaker Magazine named it “one of the 25 coolest festivals in the world”. Continue reading “Heading to the Portland Film Festival”

Critical Acclaim for My Millennial Life

Every time I make a film, I’m both excited and apprehensive about the premiere and sending it out to the world. You put so much energy into it, you hope people can relate, but it’s hard to gauge what the response will be.

Rather than looking at millennials as a statistic, the way they’re treated in so many articles and posts, we chose to delve deeper and capture our subjects, and their challenges and dreams over the period of a year or more. We tried to step into their shoes and show their perceptions of the world. Continue reading “Critical Acclaim for My Millennial Life”

My Millennial Life Screening Plays to Full House

Although we’d had test screenings and I’d shown My Millennial Life to each of the subjects when it was done, it was both nerve wracking and exciting for all of us to watch the finished documentary with over 500 other people.

The TVO presented premiere screening at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema was greeted by the crowd with enthusiasm, laughter and tears. It was clear they identified and/or sympathized with the subjects’ stories.  Continue reading “My Millennial Life Screening Plays to Full House”