After Michael Sicinski and Mike D'Angelo discussed Canary on Twitter and (rumor has it) the Cinemasters discussion group, many other critics and festivals began to express interest in the film--AFI Fest solicited Canary and Filmmaker Magazine is considering Alejandro as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film for their summer issue.

Sicinski on Canary

D'Angelo on Canary and Around the Bay

(Incidentally, D'Angelo recently relocated from Brooklyn to his childhood home of San Jose, so tell me if you see him around.)

"Adams has made a film that is jam-packed with ideas and is thus defiantly open to interpretation, yet not frustratingly so...I have seen CANARY twice and it has made my brain spin in uncomfortable new directions."

Read Michael Tully's review and analysis on the Hammer to Nail web site.

"Audience aggregation" is a horribly cold phrase, but the fact is that Twitter made it possible for me to interact with a handful of intelligent, satisfied viewers after the Migrating Forms screening of Canary on April 16th. The tweets appear below in chronological order.

As much a review of the intensity of Alejandro Adams as it is of CANARY, Karina Longworth writes beautifully about our upcoming New York screening at Migrating Forms.

See CANARY on April 16th at 9:30 PM at the Anthology Film Archives: 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY.

Craig Keller of Cinemasparagus reviews CANARY as "one of the most perceptive and pleasurable American films of Our Late Era."

¡Olé Alejandro!

Rodney Perkins of Austin's Fantastic Fest offers up a new review of CANARY on Twitch.

"Alejandro Adams’ film CANARY is the filmed equivalent of an experimental novel. It is dense, complex and spirals off into numerous directions. It is also a small-budget film that successfully blends thought provoking, as opposed to preachy, social commentary with novel forms of visual story telling."

CANARY has been invited to screen at Fantasia Festival in Montreal. Fantasia Fest is North America's premiere genre film festival.

The festival begins July 9th, and we will announce showtimes when the schedule is available.

Fantasia Festival famously values innovative and daring works, and we are very honored to be screening there!

Illustrious film critic Phillip Lopate had this to say about CANARY:

I saw CANARY last night and thought it was terrific. Very creepy and uncanny. The acting was great, and I liked the search-and-find style of cinematography. It's quite an achievement. Congratulations.

Those who have seen Canary may be amused by the scene description I discovered in a notebook today.

Shot from inside car, couple arguing in driver and passenger seat, stop at red light, Canary agent in median scanning each car that stops. Agent scans driver, scanner buzzes (non-compliance). Agent pulls the man from car, woman nonchalantly moves into driver's seat.

Clearly the concept evolved during pre-production.