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The Lethbridge Herald
March 13, 2003
Hat a Haven for city film
by Kristen Harding
Terrorists using Canada as a safe haven to plan and carry
out missions against the US will attack the Medicine Hat Film
Festival. Well, sort of.
The Haven, a 30-minute short film by local movie maker Deric
Olsen, has been selected as a finalist and will be screened
during the College Video Competition Saturday between 1 pm
and 4 pm at the Medicine Hat Public Library Theatre.
"If you missed the premiere in Lethbridge, come see
it at the Medicine Hat Film Festival," says Olsen. Starring
Alison Murray as CSIS agent Ali Silver and Kingsley Mann as
a terrorist code-named Valat, The Haven is a gripping portrait
of an operative's mission to prevent the transport of a bio-chemical
weapon into the US.
Eerily consistent with current Canada-US border security
issues, the film is a depiction of how the "necessity
of force" dominates a fictional Black Ops division of
CSIS.
Next week the Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association
will announce its nominations for outstanding films and Olsen
is hoping The Haven will be among the nominees in the student
film category.
Olsen is a University of Lethbridge multimedia student and
founded his own production company Northbound Studios in 1999.
He wrote, directed, edited and produced The Haven last year.
The Medicine Hat Film Festival runs today until Saturday.
For more information visit www.mhff.ca
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