CONTROL, ALT, DELETE
A Film By Cameron Labine

“When your computer’s already your best friend…

why not go all the way?”

Opens in Vancouver

Friday, April 23, 2010

Stars Tyler Labine, Alisen Down, Sonja Bennett, Keith Dallas, Geoff Gustafson, and Laura Bertram

It’s 1999 and loveable computer geek Lewis Henderson is dumped by his long time girlfriend Sarah. So he does what any young urban slacker would: work less and beat off more to Internet porn. But with the added pressures of his buggy Y2K software and repeated romantic rejection, Lewis discovers that the website images no longer turn him on… and thus begins his strangely satisfying sexual relationship with the machine itself.

But all honeymoons must end and Lewis’s eye starts to wander from his dependable home desktop. His desire for newer, sexier models grows until he finds himself copulating with co-worker’s CPUs. When his boss, Angela, vows to identify the “computer rapist”, Lewis tries to throw off suspicion by dating the company’s mousey receptionist, Jane. But there’s more to Jane than meets the eye – with the new millennium fast approaching and a massive motherboard calling, it seems he has to choose between his freaky fetish and the tougher challenge of real love. Or does he?

The film opens in Vancouver Friday April 23rd at the Cinemark Tinseltown Theatre. Come show your support the opening night of the film and meet the filmmakers for a drink after the screening.

There were will be a post screening party for audience members and a free beer when you present your ticket stub at the Wild Ginger across the street from the Tinseltown. Sex, computers and beer what more can you ask for?

Hope to see you out.

THE BIG PICTURE: Celebrating 40 years of Filmmaking Excellence at UBC

A gala event hosted by UBC Film Production Alumni Association, UBC Film Production Program and UBC Alumni Affairs

More than a night of great food, drink and stories of the past, this is your opportunity to network,re-connect and join the largest gathering of UBC filmmakers at one time in celebrating the Program’s collective history and legacy of talent

Discover the newly renovated Theatre-Film Production Building while you catch up with friends and former classmates, meet new students and alumni, and enjoy this historic occasion reuniting more than 300 UBC Film Production graduates, students, friends and faculty.

THE BIG PICTURE will transform the beautiful heritage building and new home to the Film Production Program into a stunning gala event and mock film set, with live music, DJ’s, film screenings and other memorabilia that tells our story.

THE BIG PICTURE Gala Event:

Theatre-Film Production Building, 6538 University Blvd.

Saturday, May 8th, 2010    7:00 pm – 2:00 am

Tickets $25/ea includes 1 complimentary drink & snacks

Invited Guests include:

Nancy Gallini: Dean of Arts

Jerry Wasserman: Head, Department of Theatre and Film

Dr. Joan A. Reynertson: Program founder

Sharon McGowan: Current Film Production Program Chair

David Spaner: Film Historian & Critic/ “Dreaming in the Rain” author

Sturla Gunnarsson: DGC National President/UBC Alumnus

Nicholas Kendall: DGC BC District President/UBC Alumnus

Lynne Stopkewich: Award-winning Director/Alumna

plus many others and… You!

BUY TICKETS HERE

Tickets are very limited. Order tickets EARLY for family and friends as this event WILL sell out QUICKLY! A portion of ticket proceeds will support the Film Production Scholarship Challenge.

At the 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival, UBC Film Production alumni Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall became the recipients of three distinguished awards for their “heart wrenching and rewarding” (says Maryam Siddiqi of the National Post) documentary, 65_Red Roses. The film, which follows twenty-three year old Eva Markvoort and her struggle with cystic fibrosis, received the Most Popular Canadian Film Award and the NFB Most Popular Canadian Documentary Award. Additionally, Mukerji, along with her executive producer Gillian Lowry, were honored with the Women in Film and Television Vancouver Artistic Merit Award.

To learn more about the film and its accomplishments, visit www.65redroses.com.

The UBC Film Production Alumni Association is pleased to invite you to a reception at Lux Lounge & Bar on Tuesday October 13th from 5-7:30PM to celebrate films by UBC alumni and students in the 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival.

Please RSVP to pr@ubcfilmalumni.org.

We hope to see you all there!

Best regards,

UBC Film Production Alumni Association

The UBC Film Production Alumni Association is always looking for new volunteers!

UBC Film Production Alumni Association is back for 2009!

UBCFPAA 40th Anniversary Kick Off Screening: May 2009
The UBC Film Production Program has 40 years to its name. To kick things off the UBC Film Production Alumni Association will be hosting a screening of ‘The Stone of Destiny’ and ‘Tomorrow Doesn’t Look Good Either’ in celebration of this great accomplishment. Both films have fellow UBC alum as key creatives. Director Charles Martin Smith and Jordan Christianson will be in attendance.

Centenary Screening Series…

To celebrate the momentous occasion of UBC’s Centenary in 2008, the UBC Film Production Alumni Association will be hosting four centenary screenings of UBC film production alumni films — both shorts and features. The screening series will also be presented at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Screening #1:
Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf & Grendel with Anne Koizumi’s short film Patrica Grey
Tuesday, February 5th 2008 Doors at 6PM, Screening at 7PM
Cinema 319, 319 Main Street Vancouver BC

Screening #2:
Mina Shum’s Double Happiness with Nimisha Mukerji’s short film Scattering Eden
Tuesday, March 11th 2008 Doors at 6PM, Screening at 8PM
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. Vancouver BC

Screening #3:
Dylan Akio Smith’s Cabin Movie with A.J. Bond’s Hirsute and Richard Martin’s Mixed Signals
Tuesday, May 8th 2008 Doors at 6PM, Screening at 8PM
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. Vancouver BC

Screening #4:
Lynne Stopkewich’s Kissed with Michelle Porter’s short film Regarding Sarah
Monday, Nov. 24th 2008 Doors at 6PM, Screening at 8PM
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. Vancouver BC

Alumni Weekend at UBC: Saturday May 24th, 2008
To bring alumni back to UBC, Alumni Affairs will be holding the UBC Alumni Weekend May 23-25, 2008. To showcase the importance of the UBC Film Production Alumni, the weekend will include a panel featuring former production students Cal Schumiatcher, Calum MacLeod, and Mark McGuckin. Join us for this fun, informative session where our guests will answer questions, provide insights, and give us a taste of “the biz” of running your own TV program.

UBC VIFF Event: October, 2008
The Vancouver International Film Festival is a prominent event every year for local filmmakers. The UBC Film Production Alumni Association hosted its first ever event at the festival in 2007, and will again promote, support and celebrate all the films made by UBC alumni, students and professors by hosting the annual UBC VIFF reception again in early October of 2008. A great opportunity to mix and mingle with the filmmakers!