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Festival Invitation

Submitted by Alejandro Adams on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 6:20am.
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Cinequest has invited Canary for its 2009 festival, which is a big honor considering that we did not officially submit the film (no form, no fee). There is a strong possibility that we will accept the invitation, not least of all because they gave us a bit of red carpet treatment with Around the Bay--two high-profile Saturday night screenings at their best venue and a review in Variety, among other things. Their 2009 iteration will take place from 2/25 through 3/8 in downtown San Jose.

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"This second feature by Alejandro Adams confirms him as an arresting talent. [Viewers] may be fascinated to the point of repeat viewings to sort out its myriad characters and half-buried clues."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety


"Micro in budget, macro in ambition, accomplishment, and scope, Adams's slyly withholding film prompts multiple viewings--and deserves them."
-- Jim Ridley, Village Voice


"Wildly ambitious...an overwhelming and surprisingly fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread."
-- Karina Longworth, Spout


"[CANARY is] terrific...very creepy and uncanny. It's quite an achievement."
-- Phillip Lopate


"Mysterious, elliptical, Bresson-like. [CANARY] is to biotech what PRIMER was to time-travel."
-- Richard von Busack, Metro


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