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Friday, February 2, 2026 International premiere of Dancing on the Elephant to screen in Competition at the 35th Cinequest Film Festival,  in San Jose, California, March 12 and 14, 2026  Trailer: HERE Tickets on sale now. (Halifax, NS) – The feature film Dancing on the...

The 24th Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse, Yukon will screen three films from Gorgeous Mistake Productions. Dancing on the Elephant will play Saturday, Feb. 7 (the same day at the Victoria Film Festival) along with The Last Walt. Devon Cooke's The Hands...

The short version of The Last Walt is now available to watch. We hope to complete the feature but for now, please check out CBC GEM or CBC Docs on YouTube. We want to thank the CBC, the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Content Creator...

Our dramatic feature, Dancing on the Elephant will be in Halburton, Ontario. Check out the info here. It will be on Feb 12 at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion.  

Walter Forsyth will be attending the European Film Market and Berlinale February 13-19. Please reach out if you would like to discuss possible co-production opportunities or service productions in Nova Scotia. walter@gorgeousmistake.com

Film Club Fridays in part of the TIFF Film Circuit and they had a wonderful turn out for Dancing on the Elephant on January 9 at 7pm. They had to open up a second screening at 2pm. Watch the trailer here.  

We are delighted to share that Dancing on the Elephant is going to have its BC premiere at the 31st Victoria Film Festival on February 7. Tanya Preyde will be attending along with lead actor, Sheila McCarthy and screenwriter, Lisa Hagen.

After a successful world premiere at Devour Food Film Festival, The Hands That Feed Us will be on Super Channel starting in November. This is from a CBC article about the Devour festival: Q: What films will stick with audiences long after the credits roll? Michael...

We had a wonderful sold out screening of Dancing on the Elephant at the 36th St. John's Women's International Film Festival. Director, Julia Neil, screenwriter, Lisa Hagen and producer Tanya Preyde attended along with stars Mary Walsh (The Grand Seduction) and Amanda...

We are very excited to announce that The Hands That Feed Us, directed by Devon Cooke, will premiere Friday, October 24th at 2:00 pm AST at the 15th Devour Food Film Festival in Wolfville, NS. The film is a co-production with Vancouver's Story Bubble Media and was...

We are pleased to share that Audrey Chan has been selected for the CMPA 2025/26 Mentorship Program and will be joining Gorgeous Mistake Productions Inc. for their placement as a Producer-in-Training through the Production Mentorship stream. The Canadian Media...

Dancing on the Elephant was programmed at noon on a Wednesday so we did not expect too much from Cinefest but the audience surprised us. They sold out the room and so they opened up a 2nd theatre and we sold that out as well. Writer, Lisa Hagen attended the screenings...

We are thrilled to announce that we premiered Dancing on the Elephant to a SOLD OUT theatre at the 45th Atlantic International Film Festival and won awards for Best Actor (Mary Walsh) and Best Editing (Angela Baker). We had the whole team present (directors Julia Neil...

Our latest dramatic feature, Dancing on the Elephant starring Sheila McCarthy (Women Talking, The Umbrella Academy), Mary Walsh (The Grand Seduction, The Missus Downstairs) and Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid's Tale, Infinity Pool, Dark Matter) will premiere at the 45th...

This year Story Money Impact restructured their Impact Mentorship Program to support more powerful projects by also creating a Learning Group, offering up to 10 hours of mentorship to 4 additional changemakers: Fraser Allan Best, Sean Cisterna, Shay Erlich, and Tanya...

Crave’s standalone-doc slate kicks off with A Lifetime in Photobooths (1 x 90 min.), which chronicles a tenacious drag king’s fight to protect analog photobooths, which have become sanctuaries for queer identity and self-expression, from becoming yet another casualty...

We are excited to announce the completion (or very near completion) of three GMP projects that we hope will come to your town in the fall. Dancing on the Elephant, The Hands that Feed Us and The Last Walt will premiere somewhere in the world this fall... stay tuned to...

Walter Forsyth will be attending the 78th Cannes Film Festival looking to sell a feature, find investment for another and meet with potential co-producers. He will aslo be spending a lot of time at Cannes Docs meeting with delegates about Lunenburg Doc Fest.

Gorgeous Mistake Productions will be at Hot Docs 2025. If you are interested in working with a Nova Scotia company, let us know. Reach out to walter@gorgeousmistake.com or tanya@gorgeousmistake.com.    

  Walter is attending CPH:DOX, March 23-28, 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the first time thanks to the generous support of the Canadian Media Producers Association and the NS Department of Culture. CMPA-BC is leading a delegation of BC producers along with...