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“…mumblecore is the sole significant American indie film wave of the last 20 years to have emerged outside the ecosystem of the Sundance Film Festival…” - The New York Times

GENERATION D.I.Y.
July 10-17   BUY TICKETS

ndependent distribution company, filmswelike, introduces the new anti-festival: Generation D.I.Y. This summer, Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book, Confidential) and veteran promoter Gary Topp (The Police, Ramones, Dixie Chicks) bring Generation D.I.Y. to theatres across Canada, an unlikely assembly of films by a collection of American filmmakers who are young, ambitious, and broke.

Heralded as the "mumblecore" movement at 2005's South By South West film festival, their works share achingly relatable stories of twenty-somethings and a grainy lo-fi esthetic that have won them critical acclaim everywhere from The New York Times to Entertainment Weekly . While they have cast off the "mumblecore" label, Generation D.I.Y.'s collection of scriptless films can be considered the first movement in American cinema since Jim Jarmusch and Richard Linklater stood behind the lens...more info + tickets