PROBLEM WITH FEAR (A)
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Global Safety has an incredible new product. The Early Warning 2 system alerts you to imminent danger before it happens. The problem is, fear is now running rampant throughout the city as people’s most banal fears come true. Laurie Harding is pretty much afraid of everything: elevators, escalators, open spaces, spaghetti … intimacy. While his girlfriend, Dot, is trying to force him to commit to their relationship, Laurie is certain the “Fear Storm” gripping the city is a result of his being the guinea pig for the prototype Early Warning 2 device. Laurie resolves he must cross the street alone to save the world. But, maybe by dealing with his fears he’ll save himself from the worst one of all: his fear of commitment.
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Gary Burns
Director
Gary Burns's first feature, The Suburbanators (1995), was deemed one of the top 10 Canadian films of 1996 by the Toronto Film Critics Association and was invited to the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Kitchen Party (1997) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was invited to numerous international festivals, including Turin, where it won a special mention FIPRESCI Award, and Atlanta, where it won Best Feature. In 2000, Burns's waydowntown captured numerous awards, including the CityTV Best Canadian Feature award at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Toronto Film Critic Association’s Best Canadian Feature award and the Vancouver Film Festival’s Most Popular Canadian Film and Best Screenplay awards. waydowntown was invited to the Sundance Festival in 2001, prior to the film’s U.S. release.
35 mm
92 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
2.35
Original version in English |
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Producers
Shirley Vercruysse
Luc Déry
George Baptist
Associate Producer
Claude Girard
Consulting Producer
Sharon McGowan
Director
Gary Burns
Scriptwriters
Gary Burns
Donna Brunsdale
Director of Photography
Stefan Ivanov
Editing
Yvann Thibodeau
Costume Designer
Devora Brown
Music
John Arbam
Cast
Paulo Costanzo
Emily Hampshire
William Garson
Camille Sullivan
Marnie Alton
Keegan Connor Tracy
Benjamin Ratner
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Production
Fear Alberta Ltd. / Burns Film Ltd.
1537 9th Ave. S.E.
Calgary Alberta
T2G 5N4
Canada
(403) 265-6023
burnsfilmltd@telus.net
Micro_Scope Inc.
55, av. du Mont-Royal Ouest
Bureau 802
Montreal Quebec
H2T 2S6
Canada
(514) 844-4554
(514) 844-4112
info@micro-scope.ca
www.micro-scope.ca
Distribution – Canada
Christal Films Distribution inc.
1217, rue Notre-Dame Est
Montreal Quebec
H2L 2R3
Canada
(514) 336-9696
(514) 815-1542
info@christalfilms.com
www.christalfilms.com
International distribution
Burns Film Ltd.
1537 9th Ave. S.E.
Calgary Alberta
T2G 5N4
Canada
(403) 265-6023
(403) 262-8469
burnsfilmltd@telus.net
www.burnsfilm.com
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