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Northern Exposure: Chandler Levack and Sophy Romvari Chat Mile End Kicks and Blue Heron
Chandler Levack’s Mile End Kicks and Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron make time travel feel possible. Levack retreats into the beer-drenched, laissez-faire vibe of Montreal’s indie rock scene circa 2011; Romvari reflects on her Hungarian immigrant family’s domestic struggles on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s. In Mile End Kicks (Sumerian Pictures), 23-year-old Grace (Barbie Ferreira) is an avatar for Levack, a music critic at a Toronto alt-weekly who leaves her bro-dominated publication for a creative summer in Montreal. She’s supposed to write a short book for the 33 ⅓ series about Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill. Instead, Grace loses herself […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 16, 2026 -
Silver Linings Playbook: Meet the New Indie Distributors
Has there ever been a good time to launch an independent film distribution company? Maybe not, admits Danielle DiGiacomo, former executive at Utopia and The Orchard, and one of the partners at a new distribution outfit launched at Sundance called Subtext. “We’ve always been operating under the shadow of giants, and it’s always been an uphill battle,” she says. “But we think the market has been correcting itself over the last few years,” says Subtext co-head Brian Levy. “And that we are now on the precipice of fertile ground for new opportunities.” Subtext is not alone. In the past several […]
by Anthony Kaufman on Mar 30, 2026
