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Terrance Odette

Terrance Odette

History

Award winning Filmmaker Terrance Odette began his career producing and directing music TV series & specials, including over 130 music videos. Odette’s feature films have all played to great critical acclaim, (Variety, Village Voice, MacLean’s, Globe & Mail, voted Top-Ten All-Time Canadian Films Vancouver Sun). His films have garnered numerous awards and screenings at film festivals (Sundance, Berlinale, TIFF, VIFF, BFI UK, Mumbai) and toured throughout the Americas, including the honour of his first feature films retrospective April of 2015 at Regina Public Library. His fourth feature film “FALL” stars Michael Murphy (Manhattan, Tanner 88) and Cannes prize-winner Best Actress Suzanne Clement (Laurence Anyways, Mommy) received 5 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARD Nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor (Michael Murphy), DGC nomination for BEST DIRECTOR. Odette. His latest efforts include the documentary features newly released FESTA, Unimaginable to be released later in 2022, Saudade in production and narrative feature Brethren in development.

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Terrance Odette

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Festa - Hamilton

Festa - Hamilton

Director

By the late 1960's, people living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with a direct connection to Racalmuto, Sicily, outnumbered the total population of Racalmuto. Since 1990, The Fratellanza Racalmutese Club of Hamilton celebrate Festa Maria SS. Del Monte, mirroring the festival held annually in Racalmuto for over 500 years. Filmed over three days in June 2018, Filmmaker Terrance Odette, with a camera, microphone and life-long fascination for culturally significant parades and ceremonies, captures a people’s commitment to community, rain or shine. Through food, play, and religious ceremony the film celebrates the value of cultural performance within the fabric of Canada’s multiculturalism.

Writer

An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral.

Director

An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral.

Director

A Belligerent blind diabetic escapes from hospital in a last ditch effort to save his dog from euthanasia, while the medical attendant sent after him deals with the death of his own estranged father.

Writer

Saint Monica centers on a young girl named Monica, whose fervent desire is to return to the Toronto church with which she grew up. Determined to play an angel in its annual Christmas procession, Monica steals a pair of wings and prepares to join the rest of the cast. Complications arise when an eccentric old woman steals them back.

Director

Saint Monica centers on a young girl named Monica, whose fervent desire is to return to the Toronto church with which she grew up. Determined to play an angel in its annual Christmas procession, Monica steals a pair of wings and prepares to join the rest of the cast. Complications arise when an eccentric old woman steals them back.

Director

In wintry Winnipeg a man struggling to keep the poor lodging he can find meets a homeless man lugging around an unopened electric heater. They cook up plots to get some money for the heater and survive the cold.