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In this final week of the Fantasia film festival, I only had one free day. This meant that I had to see as many films as possible. Even though the festival is wrapping up, I hope to catch some of the other Fantasia films when they are released in the months ahead!

Mandy  

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Stories by Patricia Petit Liang

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Hosted by Patricia Petit Liang

Stories by Patricia Petit Liang and Allison O'Reilly

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It feels great to be back covering the Fantasia Film Festival for the CJLO 1690 AM team. Normally, the first week of the festival requires a light viewing as I try to balance my schedule. I also try to make a master schedule, so that I can make the final push to see what I wanted to see in the final weeks of the festival. Everyone, including CJLO DJ’s, is in my ears telling me what I need to check out. I am very happy that I got time to make it to my final Thursday screening of Under The Silver Lake. Check out the first week’s recap below!

Playing Hard 

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Stories by Patricia Petit Liang, Allison O'Reilly and Calvin Cashen

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Hosted by Patricia Petit Liang

Stories by Patricia Petit Liang and Allison O'Reilly

Produced by Patricia Petit Liang

LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

Hosted by Jessica Barile 

Stories by Allison O'Reilly and Jessica Barile

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NATIONAL
By Allison O’Reilly

One of the four remaining commissioners on the national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women announced they have decided to keep working with the inquiry despite disappointment with the federal government's limited extension.

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Stories by Karl Knox and Patricia Petit Liang

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The end has come! Society as we know it has fallen apart, due to infighting from the queer left, as Peaches Lepage explains in the opening exposition. Our last hope rests on three “I-Will-Survivors,” who all have different ideas on how to overcome their current predicament: Dot Dot Dot wholeheartedly believes in the power of sustainability and that society can be restored through composting, veganism and yoga. Anaconda LaSabrosa is a self-described anarchist and wishes to destroy any remnants of the old world. Uma Gahd, on the other hand, is not taking the apocalypse well and wants to return to the way things were, when she had six gazillion followers on Instagram.

Glam Gam Productions has done it again with their latest Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe Festival masterpiece, Greasy: A Lesbian Love Story. Our city’s most talented artists have teamed up for an amazing, sex-positive spectacle that will leave you all hot and bothered and passionate about queer theory!

40 years ago on a steamy summer night, the wholesome family musical Grease was released, perpetuating gender stereotypes and reinforcing the idea that women should change themselves to gain men’s love. Glam Gam’s queer parody explores themes of polyamory, homosexuality, gender fluidity, consent and more in the sexiest ways possible.

Hosted by Patricia Petit Liang

Stories by Karl Knox and Patricia Petit Liang

Produced by Patricia Petit Liang

Hosted by Jessica Barile 

Stories by Allison O'Reilly and Jessica Barile

Produced by Jessica Barile 

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LOCAL
By Allison O’Reilly

An anti-immigrant group barged into the Montreal offices of Vice Media unannounced on Wednesday to throw leaflets and insult reporters.