Flick picks: Reel2Real auction, The Point of Regret, Winnebago Man

Over the next month or so, local film events will probably be overshadowed by the Winter Olympics juggernaut. It's coming at an unfortunate time when film organizations are downsizing their efforts due to B.C. arts funding cuts and looking for other alternatives for fund-raising.

Xtra West reported that Out on Screen, which runs the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, had to lay off its director of communications and Queer History Project director, and is facing a deficit.

The Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, facing a reduced budget, has organized an on-line auction that will go live on January 11 (until February 22) in order to compensate for the funding shortfall. Items in the auction will include offerings from the Arts Club Theatre, Ecomarine, Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver Aquarium, and Vancouver International Film Festival.

While they've had to cancel their animation workshops, they will be holding a family screening of the Danish film Max Embarrassing on January 17 (1 p.m.; Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street) with a free film criticism workshop for youth afterwards (3 to 5 p.m.).

Other upcoming screenings in the Lower Mainland include a test screening of B.C.–raised writer-director Simon Tate's U.K.–shot feature The Point of Regret will be held at the Coast Capital Playhouse (1532 Johnston Road, White Rock) on January 14 (6:30 p.m.; tickets $8, contact info[at]emanationfilms.net).


Watch an excerpt from Winnebago Man.

The gritty thriller follows a journalist who tries to obtain a story from a suicidal man, recently released from prison for killing his family at the age of 12, in exchange for lethal pills.

Check out the trailer for the film, which has been shortlisted for the Sundance Film Festival.

The next offering from the Doc Soup series taps into a hot issue: how technology and media are blurring the boundaries between the public and the private.

In footage taken 20 years ago, Jack Rebney repeatedly lost it while filming a Winnebago sales video. The foul-mouthed tirade was never meant for public consumption, but after being uploaded to the Web, it went viral. Director Ben Steinbauer sought to examine the phenomenon, and the impact on the man behind it, in Winnebago Man.

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