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It’s a romantic comedy that is not about romance but making better life choices. Run Woman Run is a cinematic sibling of Brittany Runs a Marathon and Last Christmas, except with a more indie spirit. The indigenous roots of the…

Featuring an unwaveringly solid exclusively Indigenous cast, Run Woman Run centres on the aftermath of Beck’s wake-up call: the young single mom with a sweet tooth is diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, the same disease that took her own mother…

By Alex De VoreOctober 13, 2021 at 12:00 am MDT We’ve seen movies wherein some schlubby nobody decides to turn their life around through running (Brittany Runs a Marathon, for example, or Run, Fatboy, Run from David Schwimmer, weirdly), but in the case…

Modern society is engulfed by entire industries catering to our collective desire for self-improvement. Self-help books, online courses, diet plans…do any of these fulfill those same resolutions we make every new year? One could make the argument that the true…

The best films have a great story behind them. It doesn’t matter if that story takes you back in time, to a planet far away, or even in the here and now, as long as it has a strong story…

Brandon BarrettWith less that two weeks to go until opening night, the Whistler Film Festival (WFF) on Friday announced the award recipients that will be honoured as part of the event’s 21st edition next month. Running in person from Dec. 1 to…

A remarkable 46 years into its sometimes tenuous existence, the American Indian Film Festival is having a moment. You might call it a virtual high point, as the program streams coast-to-coast online Nov. 5–13. But there’s a real-world headline, too, readily discernible…

Film “Run Woman Run” reimagines Onondaga legend Tom Longboat as a ghostly running coach Zoe Hopkins is the director and writer of a film called Run Woman Run, which showed at the 2021 ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. Aired:…