Maple Flavour Films

In April 2006, the creators of “Sidekick” traveled across Canada in an effort to generate enough positive word-of-mouth to lure a Canadian theatrical distributor to release their award-winning feature film in theatres. While chronicling the ups-and-downs of their coast-to-coast adventure, they also took to the streets to interview everyday Canadians and film industry professionals about their thoughts on Canadian films and the Canadian film industry. Honest, frank and often humourous, “Maple Flavour Films” is a documentary not to be missed! “This documentary starts off as an amusing little road movie about a film scriptwriter/producer taking the only 35mm print of his film Sidekick on the road across Canada as a way of getting it seen through a government-funded ‘Alternative Distribution Fund,’ but it turns out to be a much more serious analysis of the current Canadian film industry instead… [It] will foster discussions on how independent filmmakers must go out and generate an audience rather than simply hoping for one. Recommended for anyone dealing with independent filmmaking.” – Oksana Dykyj, Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO) For full review: http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/emroDetail.asp?Number=3716