Starring: Jason Patric Isabella Rossellini Udo Kier Brooke Palsson David Wontner Louis Negin Kevin Mcdonald

Home , Cowards Bend the Knee, Guy Maddin, Jason Patric, Kevin McDonald, Louis Negin, Night Mayor

A MONTEREY MEDIA PRESENTATION

STARRING: JASON PATRIC ISABELLA ROSSELLINI UDO KIER BROOKE PALSSON DAVID WONTNER LOUIS NEGIN KEVIN MCDONALD

Writer: George Toles and Guy Maddin Director: Guy Maddin Executive Producer: Phyllis Laing Producers: Jody Shapiro, Jean du Toit Director of Photography: Ben Kasulke Editor: John Gurdebeke Production Designer: Richardo Alms Casting by: Jim Heber

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2 Keyhole Production Notes “I’m only a ghost, but a ghost isn’t nothing.”

Keyhole is a rousing 1930s gangster picture set in a haunted house. It is a ghost sonata in which dream and waking life are seamlessly blended to isolate and expose universal feelings. SYNOPSIS A gangster and deadbeat father, Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric), returns home after a long absence. He arrives, toting two teenagers: a drowned girl, Denny (Brooke Palsson), who has mysteriously returned to life; and a bound-and- gagged hostage, who is actually his own teenage son, Manners (David Wontner). Confused, Ulysses doesn't recognize his own son, but he feels with increasing conviction he must make an indoor odyssey from the back door of his home all the way up, one room at a time, to the marriage bedroom where his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) awaits, full of cancer, grieving over the deaths of her three other children, and wooed by Ulysses' arch-rival, Chang (Johnny Chang). The house is haunted by countless dead relatives.

As in Homer's Odyssey, Ulysses reaches his goal and vanquishes his enemy, but the equilibrium of the house has been disturbed. Manners seeks solace in the dream world where order can be restored, but he cannot sleep forever. He wakes, overwhelmed by reality which he cannot bear. The house, familiar even in its disheveled state, saves Manners and he returns to his mother.

Perhaps this has all been a dream that is dreamt every night by Manners himself or by the ghosts he loves so much.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT Keyhole is a domestic Odyssey across carpets and floor tiles instead of across the sea. Here, in the old family home, the film can poetically study the emotionally complex importance of the house, everyone’s house, and all the memories that haunt every nook and cranny of our childhood domiciles. The film is as much an autobiography of a house as anything else. Ultimately, by embedding the entire drama in the house to which all my fictional family’s memories are welded, I hope to divine the nature of the love we all have for our homes, and the love produced by our homes. These studies of the poetics of domestic space are contemplative themes, but the galloping narrative drive of the Odyssey enables me to employ a propulsive story. The gangsters-in-a-haunted-house genre, an admittedly rare, but not un-useful film niche – the Bowery Boys’ “Spooks Run Wild” comes to mind as an unlikely B-movie inspiration, one used by poet John Ashberry in his most recent collection of work -- has emerged as a most latently powerful device for transforming this meditative story into a most compellingly, hauntingly and universally true tale of domestic love and familial memory. - Guy Maddin

Keyhole “Keyhole images (through the keyhole) is old school, melodramatic. I liked the idea of kneeling and looking through them.” --Guy Maddin Narrative without Autobiography Turning away from the autobiographical, or ‘cinematic rehab’ as he describes it, Maddin strikes out into pure narrative filmmaking with Keyhole. “Nakedly considering my previous films’ autobiographies allowed me access to story details that I never could have dreamt up on my own,” he reveals. “In a lot of cases, I had to bend real events and feelings to fit a story, but I learned what makes fictional scripts tick by approaching them with myself 3 at the centre. After three big films where I am the throbbing - and sometimes hideous - centre, I know enough now to go forward like other mature filmmakers and I feel comfortable now with regular story-telling.” Inspiration The 1958 book, The Poetics of Space, by French phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard fascinated Maddin. It is a classic study of the psychological affects of domestic space. “The author discusses in exquisitely delicious detail the meanings and feelings produced by the various nooks and crannies of a house, like a living room, a dining room, a closet, a laundry chute. It thrilled me to read.” “My original intent was to make a movie version of this book, but that would have been as impossible as making a film about a dictionary.” The solution was to take the deconstruction of the house and rebuild it around a durable story that was in the public domain. The architecture of that kind of narrative would allow for indulging in Bachelard’s reveries and still permit everyone to find their own way into the story.

Maddin’s first choice was Heinrich von Kleist’s 1808 tragedy, Penthesilea, which is a battle of the sexes between the Trojans and the queen of the Amazons, but it veered too far from the domestic setting. Homer’s Odyssey, however, about a man returning to his home where his wife and son have stayed for 19 years in his absence, was much better. When he returns, Ulysses must arrive in disguise. As in the original, at the very centre of the home is the marital bed built on the top of a tree and the house is built around it. The sturdiest thing in this house is the marriage bed. On some levels it’s a deadbeat dad story, an abandoned wife story and also a jealous son story, almost a precursor of Hamlet.

Maddin let his protagonist, Ulysses, wander through this house one room at a time, making an odyssey from the back door to his marital bed. Tapping into their emotion, Ulysses, his wife, Hyacinth, as well as Denny and Manners can walk the stairs and the halls, navigating with their eyes shut. “Along the way in the writing, both Blanchard’s work and Homer’s work faded into the background and it became a hybrid where neither of the source materials is recognizable. This was something that George Toles and I really liked,” he said. “Freud, however, has no place in this house.”

Touchstones Guy Maddin does not go gently into elementary narrative. He was encouraged by Carl-Theodor Dreyer's early masterpiece Vampyr, which was at the forefront of the fantasy horror genre. Abstract and poetic, it was impressionistic in atmosphere rather than design. “It involves dreamy wandering and attaches itself to feelings both unsettling and comforting.” And Maddin was energized by the breathless discombobulation Martin Arnold inflicts upon his viewers of long ago shot footage of Mickey Rooney and Gregory Peck. “Arnold’s films point out surprising facts of every conventionally-told narrative. There is a secret mini-meta narrative if you give the words enough breathing room.”

Cinematography Keyhole is shot in black and white because in a Guy Maddin film, nothing ever is. It is also his first entirely digital film. Director of Photography Ben Kasulke (Brand Upon the Brain) and Maddin were both camera operators. With the exception of Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Maddin has always had some hands-on involvement in the actual

4 shooting of all his films. “The Canon 5D cameras are the size of Dustbusters, so Ben and I would enter the room like a pair of MollyMaids, sucking up the imagery.” The exceptional detail which the 5D camera offered allowed Maddin to maintain the signature look of his previous films, but provoked a volte-face in strategy. “I used to disguise sets with the mists and grains of small gauge emulsions, like Super 8 or 16.” Now, he is embracing detail, showing as much as possible with 35mm. Essentially, Maddin has been seduced by technology, trading in his ‘vats of Vaseline’ from the Saddest Music days for not only detail, but in his next film, colour.

Casting Keyhole shimmers. At first blush, this is a performance-driven film rather than a balance between performance and atmosphere, but Maddin has created a number of thresholds for Ulysses to cross into his domestic odyssey and atmosphere is always present. The House Having previously indulged in the “illicit world of silent film,” Maddin enjoyed the irony of sculpting his story with fewer words and greater silences. It also allowed the house to speak, literally. “Household sounds are important,” he said. “I wanted the film to have the logic of music. The house does hum. Song fragments drift up through heating vents. I want the score to be as comforting as the house when it settles in for the night.” Ulysses Ulysses Pick. Odysseus was the first alpha male. Not only is he physically strong, but he’s also wily. Yet also, a deadbeat dad, an absentee father. This kind of family dynamic is older than the spoken word, Maddin felt. “Such fathers haunt the people they leave behind. They fill the house with their false presence.” “I cast Jason Patric because I wanted a protagonist in almost the Hollywood sense of the word who makes things happen and can take the whole script and carry it on his back. Jason is a guy you could harness the story to and let him haul it across the finish line. Maddin had met Jason Patric at Ebert Fest in 2005 and pursued him for years. Ulysses Pick was written for him. “Jason has combustible energy, latent power. He is a dramatic problem solver.” And he allowed Maddin to rediscover the awe of beautiful voices and dialogue. “For this part I wanted a strong person, someone who always seems to know what he’s doing even if he has no idea what he’s doing. He would never admit this, so even when he is confused, he is still a leader. He is an idealized form of a dad for an admiring son, Manners, who has missed his dad for his entire life: strong, seemingly protective, heroic, and terrifyingly unreliable. He is not like Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird. He is more like a muscle, a muscle with a brain in it.” Hyacinth This is Ulysses’ long abiding wife. The abandonment by her husband becomes a battleground for her grief, her loneliness and her desire. “She exists in a touching storybook murkiness, a warm center of love, but mostly lament. She is a plausible, warm, maternal lap to which any son would want to return,” said Maddin. About Isabella, he is equally, if not more poetic. “She is a hybrid divinity - Mediterranean and Scandinavian. She is timeless, youthful and old. She understands with the DNA in her bones. She is willing to be naked and unglamorous. She trusts me.” Manners Ulysses’ son. Maddin has created a story in which the first 90% is about the father and the final 10% becomes the boy’s story. “Manners is a back-up protagonist in the film. Bound and gagged for the most part, he watches. This is the typical Canadian protagonist following the more proactive protagonist through the corridors of

5 memory. David Wontner, who plays Manners, is strangely beautiful, endlessly fascinating to look at, shifting minutely from prettiness to handsomeness to uncanniness. There is something protean about him and he has a wonderful voice, which is important to me, now that I’m making talkies. And his character is named after David Manners, the universally bland horror film Canadian actor who played the dull romantic lead in horror movies in the 30s.” Dr. Lemke Dr. Lemke is a doctor whose son has just died a few hours earlier – although he seems to be more of a coroner than a doctor. He has been kidnapped to look after a drowned girl which means he is trying to save someone else’s life while dealing with his own grief. Lemke is in a haunted house where no one knows who is dead and who is alive, and even the patient he is treating may in fact be dead. Udo Kier, who narrated Maddin’s Brand Upon The Brain for a Los Angeles performance, plays Dr. Lemke. “Udo is gentle and understated, talking about sad things, but with a medical detachment. I never had to tell Udo to do that - he just seemed to intuit it.” “His voice is very soft, like the inside of a cigar box, low and damp. It seems felt-lined somehow. He transforms himself so quickly, bringing all his own clothes to a shoot, including his collection of moustaches and glasses, like a latterday Lon Chaney. And he decides what he wants to look like and sound like. He is one of the smartest actors I have ever worked with. He descended onto the set for two days and left an incredible impression.”

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ABOUT THE CAST

JASON PATRIC (Ulysses Pick) Jason Patric’s feature film debut came in 1987 when he appeared in the comedy- thriller The Lost Boys. He then starred in the war drama The Beast, After Dark My Sweet and Rush, which earned Patric critical acclaim. Patric next starred in Geronimo: An American Legend, The Journey of August King, Sleepers and in Your Friends and Neighbors, which was the first feature Patric produced for his production company, Fleece. Patric starred in the drama Narc and The Alamo for Director John Lee Hancock. He starred in Downloading Nancy, Expired, My Sister’s Keeper and The Losers. Patric starred as Brick in the Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Some of his other theatre credits include Neil LaBute’s Bash, Beirut, Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap, The Tempest, Henry V and Love’s Labor Lost. Most recently Patric starred on Broadway in the revival of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning Play That Championship Season, with Chris Noth, Kiefer Sutherland, Brian Cox and Jim Gaffigan, directed by Gregory Mosher. The play, originally presented in 1972, was written by Patric’s father, Jason Miller. BROOKE PALSSON (Denny) has been acting since she was nine years old, getting her start playing the role of ‘Melanie’ in the TBS production of “Breakaway” alongside Dean Cain. From there, the door opened up to a number of made-for-television movies including “Christmas Rush,” “While I Was Gone,” “Eye of the Beast,” and the short film, Halley’s Comet, as well as commercials and voice over work. While only 16-years old, she’s already received numerous awards and accolades in her performances, most recently being Winner - The 11th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards, Best Ensemble 2010; Winner – 2010 Gemini Awards , Best Comedy Program or Series and Nomination – 2009 Gemini Awards , Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series, all for the HBO series, “Less Than Kind.” She also has had the lead role in a short Rusted Pyre directed by Lawrence Cohen. Moreover, her music has been recognized with a Gold Medal/First Place singing performance at the Winnipeg Music Festival in 2008.

6 DAVID WONTNER (Manners) A Toronto based actor originally from Barrie, Ontario. He moved to the city at the age of 18 to attend Humber’s "Acting For Film and Television" course in 2007. From there David was able to get his start in the industry with student films, short films and docudramas such as Urban Legends and Crimes of Passion. After just his first year at Humber, David found himself landing roles in films such as Funky Prairie Boy (CBC-Best Short Film at the St. Louis International), Grace a controversial thriller about the late Albert Fish, and Killer God a film by award-winning director Stan Radwanski where he portrayed ‘Louis Hagen’. 2009 was brought to a close with a leading role in "Breakout" where he played dangerous and convicted criminal "Dennis Wayne Hope". In 2010, David was able to work with director Bruce Macdonald in Teletoon’s "My Babysitter's a Vampire." Most recently he has starred in the Television series’ “Wingin’ It” for Temple Street and “Debra!” for the Family Channel. ISABELLA ROSSELLINI (Hyacinth) Moving easily from early forays into comedy and television reporting to roles in movies, television, and stage productions and from an illustrious international modeling career (as the face of Lancome for 14 years) and developing her own brand of cosmetics to writing and philanthropy, and after appearing in more than 40 films (Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her, The Saddest Music in the World, Infamous) and 25 made-for-television movies/series ("Alias," "Discovery Atlas: Italy Revealed," "Iconoclasts," "30 Rock"), Isabella Rossellini turned her eye to film making. Her debut was her mischievous and witty film, My Dad is 100 Years Old, a pretend dialogue about the essence of film. In it, Ms. Rossellini appears as herself, speaks her father's words, and also brilliantly portrays Fellini, Selznick, Hitchcock, Chaplin, and her own mother, whom she strikingly resembles.

In 2008 Robert Redford's Sundance Institute commissioned Ms. Rossellini to make a series of short films to address the issues of the environment. She chose the mating habits of bugs and called her series Green Porno, which has been celebrated in film festivals here and abroad. In 2009, she won the Webby Award for "Best Individual Performance" for Green Porno. She has once again been nominated this year for the same award. For the second series, which involves sea creatures, she took courses in biology at New York University. In addition to the shorts on the Sundance Channel, a book of Green Porno was released last fall which included all three seasons of the shorts. http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/

On the heels of the great success of Green Porno, Ms. Rossellini has partnered up with Sundance again for a new series about animal courtship entitled Seduce Me. The first five short films became available on video on demand and the second five released in November 2010.

Ms. Rossellini is also a wildlife activist and dedicated trainer of Labrador puppies for the blind. She was recently honored by The Audubon Society for her work. She has written three books: "Some of Me," "Looking at Me," and "In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini." Between movie and film making projects, she lectures at performing arts centers throughout the United States and Canada.

KEVIN McDONALD (Ogilbe) McDonald was born in Montreal, Quebec, He moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of seven, after his father was transferred there. His family subsequently lived in Toronto, Ontario as well. McDonald founded Kids in the Hall with friend Dave Foley. They met in Toronto at the Second City Training Center, and the two wrote and performed in sketches together more than any other pair in the group. In the troupe's television series and stage shows, he portrays several popular recurring characters, such as the King of Empty Promises, Sir Simon Milligan, and Jerry Sizzler. Since the “Kids in the Hall” show's end in 1994, he has played many roles in films including Boy Meets Girl, Agent Pleakley the cross-dressing alien in Lilo & Stitch (a role which has continued into three direct-to-video movies and “Lilo & Stitch: The Series”), and Harry Potter in Epic Movie. On television, he has appeared on “The Martin Short Show,” “Ellen” (as a radio personality), “That '70s Show” (as a confused young cleric, Pastor Dave), “Seinfeld,” “Friends,” “NewsRadio” (on which Foley starred), “MADtv”, “Arrested Development,” and “Corner Gas.” McDonald has also done voice work for various animated series, including Nickelodeon's “Invader Zim” (he did the voice for Almighty Tallest Purple, alongside Wally 7 Wingert's Almighty Tallest Red), “The Angry Beavers,” “Catscratch,” and “Clerks: The Animated Series.” He also played an imaginary friend named Ivan in the episode ‘Sight For Sore Eyes’ on “Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends,” appeared in the music video for "Roses" by Outkast, and made an appearance in “Tim and Eric's Awesome Show.” In 2006 McDonald hosted a CBC Television special, featuring several of Canada's best-known sketch comedy troupes. "Sketch with Kevin McDonald" won a Canadian Comedy Award (Best Taped Live Performance - The Minnesota Wrecking Crew), with The Imponderables nominated for the same award. He was recently in Montreal as a part of the Just for Laughs Festival with the reunion of Kids in the Hall, and also with his show "Hammy and the Kids" with Craig Northey, based on his two dysfunctional families, his father ("Hammy") and the Kids in the Hall, as well as “Death Comes to Town.” JOHNNY W. CHANG (Chang) formerly Zhang Wei-Qiang, from the People's Republic of China, joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet as Principal Dancer in January 1992. For the Company’s 1999/00 season he became a Resident Guest Artist in order to devote more time to international guest appearances for the next three seasons. Before joining the RWB, Johnny was a freelance guest artist in Japan and Asia for five years. Formerly a principal dancer with the National Ballet of China, Johnny toured with the NBC to the US, the UK and Russia. He was also a principal dancer with the Beijing Dance Academy Ballet Company from 1981-84, where he also trained, graduating with top honours in 1979. Johnny attended summer classes in the United States with the Houston Ballet Academy in Texas before joining the Houston Ballet where he danced from 1979 - 1981. Johnny has won national and international medals for dance excellence, including a Bronze medal from the 2nd International Ballet Competition in Jackson, U.S.A (1982), Second Prize from the 4th World Ballet Competition in Osaka, Japan (1984), a Bronze medal from the 5th Moscow International Ballet Competition (1985) and the Highest Honour Award from the 1st National Ballet Competition in Beijing, China (1985). As a dancer, Johnny performed principal roles in many classical full length ballets and short works including pieces by Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbin, George Balanchine, Rudi van Dantzig, Sir Peter Wright, Sir Frederick Ashton and Mark Godden. As one of the great dancers in the world, Johnny has studied and worked with many renowned teachers and choreographers from around the world: Ben Stevenson, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Dame Alicia Markova, Sir Anton Dolin, Rudolf Nureyev, Sir Peter Wright, Rudi van Dantzig, Alexander Grant, Melissa Haydem, Ronald Hand, Azari M Plissetski, Yuri Grigorovich, Merle Park, Sallie Wilson, Merrill Ashley, Faith Worth, and Galina Yordanova. During the summer of 1996, Johnny started to work as Ballet Master with the Seoul Ballet Theatre and toured with them to Italy. For two seasons from 2000-02, Johnny was both Resident Guest Artist and Ballet Master at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He was appointed to full time Ballet Master in 2002/03 as part of the RWB’s artistic staff. In 2004, for his farewell performances, Johnny danced the title role in Dracula in his home country, China, as the RWB toured to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Since becoming Ballet Master Johnny has been invited to teach, coach, and set ballets on the Seoul Ballet Theatre, Hong Kong Ballet, Slovak National Ballet Theatre, and the Greek National Ballet Theatre. He has also conducted workshops in Canada and in Japan. LOUIS NEGIN (Calypso/Camille) was born in London UK, and grew up in Toronto, Canada, lived and worked in London UK, 17 years as well in New York City where he studied with Uta Hagen. His 50-year career spans Broadway, the West End and seven Stratford Festival Theatre seasons. Film work includes playing opposite Joan Collins, Hieronymous Merkin, Barry Humphries (Dame Edna) in Barry McKenzie, Udo Kier and Isabella Rossellini. Negin has appeared in seven films for filmmaker Guy Maddin, including the infamous short, Sissy Boys Slap Party. He has worked on major TV series such as, "King of Kensington," "Seeing Things" and "Slings and Arrows." He is currently residing in Montreal, Quebec, where he created and performed his one-man show The Glass Eye, which was featured at Toronto Luminato Festival. UDO KIER (DR. Lemke) is a German film and television actor, known primarily for a career with perhaps the widest range of artistic tones in movie history. He has appeared in works along every point of the exploitation/high-art spectrum. After starting his career with lead roles in the Andy Warhol-produced pictures Blood of Dracula & Flesh for Frankenstein, Mr. Kier has worked with, among hundreds of directors, Rainer

8 Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Gus van Sant and Lars von Trier, appearing in all but three of von Trier's works since 1987. Kier has essayed the roles of Erich von Stroheim, Hitler, Bartok and Pope Innocent VIII (in this year's acclaimed TV series, “The Borgias.”), as well as the voice of Dr. Pericles in Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated. He previously collaborated with Guy Maddin as a narrator in the latter's touring live production of Brand upon the Brain! ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS GUY MADDIN (Writer/Director) is a Winnipeg-based filmmaker with ten features to his credit, including cult- classic Tales From The Gimli Hospital (1988); and Archangel (1990), which won the U.S. National Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film Of The Year. Since then he has won many other awards – including the Telluride Silver Medal For Life Achievement in 1995; an Emmy for his ballet movie Dracula -- Pages From A Virgin's Diary; the San Francisco International Film Festival's prestigious Persistence Of Vision Award in 2006, and others – and created dozens of beguiling films in his unique personal style. These include such celebrated feature works as The Saddest Music In The World (2003), Brand Upon The Brain! (2006), and My Winnipeg (2007), winner of the TIFF City TV Prize for Best Canadian Feature. JEAN DU TOIT (Producer) is the Head of Business Affairs and a Producer at Buffalo Gal Pictures, where she has been since 2001. Previous to her entry into the film and television industry, she worked as the marketing manager for an opera company, a copywriter for a travel wholesaler and as a fundraiser for community groups. Jean’s first role as producer was on a mocdoc for The Comedy Network on the life-threatening dangers of reading. Since then she has produced television series and slightly more serious documentaries. Projects in development include a treaty co-production with Norway for a documentary on the South Sami people, entitled The Last Sami Girl. Jean currently serves on the Board of Directors of On Screen Manitoba, Manitoba’s screen- based industry association and on the board of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC). JODY SHAPIRO (Producer) Jody Shapiro is a filmmaker and photographer whose work has been featured in various festivals, galleries and publications around the world. In the spring of 2004, Jody formed his production company, Everyday Pictures Inc. and directed and produced, Ice Breaker, shot aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Henry Larsen. The film documented the ship and her crew as they patrolled the Arctic Ocean from the coast of Labrador to Thule, Greenland. Ice Breaker was produced in association with CBC Newsworld and had its world premiere at the HOT DOCS documentary festival in 2005. Before starting his own company, Jody worked at Rhombus Media where he produced such projects as Kevin McMahon’s documentary An Idea of Canada and Larry Weinstein’s Beethoven’s Hair. Jody also produced the Preludes, ten short films celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival. These included the Genie nominated short, Camera, directed by David Cronenberg and Guy Maddin’s Genie winner, The Heart of the World. Jody has spent the last 10 years producing the work of Guy Maddin. Their feature length documentary, My Winnipeg, was the winner of the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Other projects with Maddin include The Saddest Music in the World, starring Mark McKinney and Isabella Rossellini, Sissy Boy Slap Party, The Nude Caboose, and Brand Upon the Brain! Jody’s directorial work on Do You Love Me? was nominated for Best Social Issue Documentary at the HOT DOCS festival in 1994. His short experimental documentary, 10 Seconds of Protest, screened at the 2002 Images Festival. How to Start Your Own Country, a feature length documentary produced and directed by Jody was completed for The Documentary Channel/CBC. The world premiere took place at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and continues to play at festivals around the world. Jody co-directed and produced a series of short films with Isabella Rossellini called Green Porno – about the sex lives of insects. Green Porno was commissioned by the Sundance Channel in the United States. A book of photographs by Jody, inspired by the Green Porno films, was released by HarperCollins in 2009. Jody is the Co-Chair on the Board of Directors for the Toronto based Images Festival and is a member of the Industry Advisory Committee for the Toronto International Film Festival.

9 PHYLLIS LAING (Executive Producer) An award-winning film and television producer, entrepreneur, and president of Winnipeg’s Buffalo Gal Pictures, Phyllis Laing continues to leave a lasting impression on the motion picture industry in Canada. Since founding Buffalo Gal Pictures, one of Canada’s most successful independent motion picture production companies in 1994, Phyllis has used her keen sense of business, creative vision, and knowledge of the industry to produce an impressive list of acclaimed feature films, documentaries and TV programs. Some of her notable recent accomplishments include her role as executive producer on Guy Maddin’s feature film My Winnipeg (2008), which was recently selected as one of the top ten films of the decade by Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times; as producer on the 2009 psychological horror Haunting in Connecticut; and as executive producer for Gemini-winning hit TV series Less Than Kind. Phyllis' leadership and devotion to the motion picture industry was honoured this year when she received the 2011 Douglas James Dale Industry Builder Award. Phyllis is a longstanding member of the Board of Directors for Onscreen Manitoba, and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Gimli Film Festival. GEORGE TOLES (Co-Writer) has been Guy Maddin's screenwriting collaborator for twenty five years. He has made substantial script contributions to nearly all of Guy's feature films, as well as a number of his shorts. George has also written the original story and co-authored the screenplay for Canada's first stop-motion animated feature, Edison and Leo (2008). It received an award for Best Animated Feature Film at the Bangkok International Animation Festival in 2009. George is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Film and Chair of Film Studies at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film. The screenplay for Keyhole is loosely autobiographical. One thread derived from George's own history is his grandfather's long confinement, chained to his mother's bed. BENJAMIN KASULKE (Director of Cinematography) Ben Kasulke is an award winning Director and Director of Photography based in Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York. Ben graduated from the Northfield-Mount Hermon School and received his BS in Cinema Production from Ithaca College following additional study at the Filmová a Televizní Fakulta Akadmie Muzickych Umní in Prague. Ben's professional experience includes employment as an Instructor at Seattle's Northwest Film Forum, a film archivist with The Image Treasury, programmer with London's Raindance Film Festival, and as a staff projectionist with the Olympia Film Society. While employed as the staff cinematographer for the Seattle based Film Company, he was fortunate enough to begin running collaborations with award winning filmmakers Guy Maddin and Lynn Shelton. Kasulke has also worked in music video and performance documentation with various acts including Einsteurzende Neubaten and Built To Spill.

In 2006, he received two awards for his Cinematography on Shelton's We Go Way Back from the Slamdance and Torun Film Festivals. The Seattle Stranger shortlisted Kasulke for its Genius Award in Film in 2007. In 2009 Ben was fortunate enough to lens the Sundance Special Jury Prize winning Humpday which went on to win the John Cassavetes Award at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards. He was honored to shoot Marie Losier's The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye which was awarded both the Golden Teddy and Caligari Prize at the 2011 Berlinale. Kasulke's work has been screened at multiple film festivals including the Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, and Cannes Film Festival Director's Fortnight. His feature film work has been released by IFC Films, Magnolia Pictures, and The Criterion Collection.

JOHN GURDEBEKE (Editor) is trained as an artist, now working in film. Besides cinematography, he is primarily noted for his work as picture editor and sound designer. Recent picture edit work of note includes: Guy Maddin’s Cowards Bend The Knee, Brand Upon The Brain!, My Winnipeg and Night Mayor, the Isabella Rossellini/Guy Maddin short My Dad is 100 Years Old, as well as Sean Garrity’s feature Lucid.

RICHARDO ALMS (Production Designer) is a longtime Winnipeg contemporary of Guy Maddin. They share a fascination with filmmaking and hockey that goes back to the original six, and the non-curved sticked Nats. Ricardo and Guy have teamed up on over a dozen features and shorts. The latest game-plan is to create a body of work that includes the gangster saga feature: Keyhole , and its preceding, similarly themed shorts ; Glorious,

10 Electric Chair, and Night Mayor; as well as the simultaneously shot Hauntings, that are remakes of lost or damaged films.

HEATHER NEALE (Costume Designer) is a Winnipeg-based designer who graduated with a Clothing and Textiles Degree from the University of Manitoba before going to work in the garment industry as a fashion merchandiser. In 1999 Heather began her film career designing costumes for independent features such as East of Euclid, The Nature of Nicholas and Who Loves the Sun. Heather also went on to work in various other positions within the costume department: costume assistant, truck costume supervisor, set supervisor, costume coordinator and assistant costume designer. She gained valuable skills and worked with many talented designers on such feature films as Capote, Amreeka and Mother’s Day. In 2009 Heather began her costume design collaboration with Guy Maddin on the short film Night Mayor which was created as a tribute to the National Film Board of Canada’s 70th Anniversary and won best experimental short at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. She also designed for Guy Maddin’s various Hauntings also directed by Guy Maddin and his deputies. Heather’s most recent project is Goon, directed by Michael Dowse starring Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber and Alison Pill.

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14 ABOUT THE COMPANY

monterey media inc., incorporated in 1979, is a privately owned entertainment company. monterey media is actively engaged in all areas of domestic media, including theatrical distribution, film festivals, and other distinctive venues, television, digital delivery and home entertainment markets. The Company is known for creating unique and distinctive release strategies tailored to each project. By way of example, in 2005, the Company established a joint venture for the creation of a special theatrical event in conjunction with AMC Theatres to launch the motion picture Indigo: A one day, 603 North America venue showing grossed over $1,190,000 box office. Recently, monterey media films have been nominated for a Golden Globe Award, Independent Spirit Award, and NAACP Image Award. Many of our films have premiered at Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, and SXSW Film Festivals. Summer 2011 saw monterey media films on over 100 screens with the acclaimed Monte Hellman Road to Nowhere hailed as “A Certifiable Masterpiece” by Film Comment with it’s premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; Small Town Murder Songs which premiered at TIFF; and the New York Times Critics’ Pick Harvest. Upcoming, among others, is Famke Janssen’s directorial debut Bringing Up Bobby starring Milla Jovovich, Bill Pullman and Marcia Cross, and Guy Maddin's acclaimed Keyhole, premiering at TIFF, Berlin and SXSW starring Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini and Udo Kier. In 2010, the Company completed a 50 city release including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas for the acclaimed Trucker starring Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion and Benjamin Bratt (chosen by Roger Ebert as one of the ten best independent films of 2009). For Endgame, from the 2009 Sundance Film Festival starring Academy Award winner William Hurt, monterey created a theatrical release in 30 cities (even after a PBS airing) garnering a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination for co-star Chiwetel Ejifor. The action/adventure/romance The Red Baron starring Joseph Fiennes and Lena Headey launched in Los Angeles at Mann’s Chinese on as well as Phoenix, Detroit, San Diego, Portland, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Jacksonville, Louisville and others, while Lovely, Still starring Academy Award Winners Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn opened 45 cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, Detroit, Philadelphia, Ft. Lauderdale, Denver and San Diego. The philosophy of doing good while doing well is practically a mantra at monterey media, and in addition to its ritual support of charitable organizations the company has developed a program entitled A Weekend of Unity & Peace. Last year’s feature film was Turk Pipkin’s One Peace at a Time, with music by Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Jack Johnson. www.unityandpeace.org

monterey is known for its creatively coordinated marketing strategies incorporating promotional alliances with such strategic partners as Wal-Mart, Fisher Price, Pepsi Cola, American Express, Amnesty International USA, Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, Children’s Cancer Research Fund, Patagonia, Body Glove, KIDS FIRST!, Days Inns, Habitat for Humanity, Greenpeace, the International Motorcycle Shows and Healthy World Healthy Child and Air Pacific. monterey video & Emerging Technologies The monterey video division is the 2nd oldest independent video manufacturer and distributor in the United States and incorporates distribution to all digital markets. monterey is well known for its broad marketing and its direct relationships with key retail, mail-order and internet sites, schools and libraries, and specialty markets. The versatile monterey video library encompasses unique feature films and documentaries with the Company having been awarded numerous Multi-Platinum RIAA and ITA sales Awards; prestigious Independent films starring such distinguished actors as Susan Sarandon, John Ritter, Tommy Lee Jones, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, David Strathairn, Brian Dennehy, Robin Williams, Danny Glover, among many others; celebrated sports programming including Bruce Brown Films On Any Sunday and The Endless Summer; the most prestigious educational yet entertaining library of films adapted from literature’s renowned authors combined with acclaimed performances from many of Hollywood’s greatest actors; and note-worthy children’s programming. In addition, monterey has the honor of being the first video market licensee of the American Film Institute.