Category: Filmmakers in Attendance
Friday August 14th – Thursday August 20th!
Arab Blues – Stockholm Film Fest: Best Film nominee! Valladolid Int Film Fest: Best Film nominee! Palm Springs Int Film Fest: New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize nominee! Brotherhood – Ottawa Premiere! Sam Ashe Arnold – one of the stars of Brotherhood – and director Richard Bell will be in
Friday April 6th to Thursday April 12th!
Ottawa Premiere of Madame, Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, a pair of Best Foreign Language Oscar nominees: The Insult and Loveless, the Final Cut of Best F(r)iends: Volume 1, The Strangers: Prey At Night, No Date No Signature, Death Wish (2018), and free screening of A Fantastic Woman!
Friday April 14th – Thursday April 20th
Personal Shopper – An American in Paris is a personal shopper for a celebrity. She seems to have the ability to communicate with spirits, like her recently deceased twin brother. Soon, she starts to receive ambiguous messages from an unknown source. The Lego Batman Movie – Easter weekend matinees! There
Friday April 13th – Thursday April 19th!
The Death of Stalin, The Leisure Seeker, 104th consecutive month of The Room, and 3 Ottawa Premieres: Mary Goes Round, A Swingers Weekend, and Love Cecil, plus special screenings of 8 Minutes Ahead, Back To The Future, and Grease!
Four-Wheeled Furies national debut live telecast!
Four-Wheeled Furies, a documentary about Ottawa’s own Rideau Valley Roller Girls, makes its national television debut on Saturday March 30th at noon. You can join me, the rest of the crew, and a bunch of derby girls at the Mayfair for the event and watch the live telecast
Fake trailers/real call for submissions!
FAKE TRAILERS/REAL FILM FESTIVAL! Friday June 24 at 9:30pm The Mayfair challenges you to produce and submit a fake movie trailer for a non existent film, 2 to 3 minutes in length! The trailer cannot be for a pre-existing film or for a film that the filmmaker
Fake Trailers Reel Festival round III
NEVER COMING TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU! Mayfair Theatre presents The FAKE TRAILERS/REEL FESTIVAL An evening of real trailers — for fake movies! Plus, ultra-rare trailers for real cult movies presented on 35mm! In the tradition of Robert Rodriguez’s and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse, the Mayfair presents the
Crispin Hellion Glover Returns!
“[Being called] eccentric doesn’t bother me, ‘eccentric’ being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn’t follow the lines — that’s okay.” – Crispin Hellion Glover The great Crispin Glover makes his return to the Mayfair for a pair of live performances and film presentations
Beware the Discopath!
Discopath makes its Ottawa Premiere at the Mayfair on Saturday May 10th. We’ll have some extra special guests in attendance: Actor Ivan Freud, actress Katherine Cleland and director Renaud Gauthier. Join us for the new indie Canadian horror film that is destined to become a cult classic. Blood
Are you prepared to enter The Room?
Is The Room really, as Entertainment Weekly called it, “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”? Pretty much, yeah. But that doesn’t mean it’s not enjoyable. Quite the opposite, really. Read on and learn how to participate! Stuff to yell at