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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...

Please reach out to us if you would like to: a) meet to discuss possible co-productions with our Canadian company or b) buy or distribute one of our three films that we are releasing this year including the drama, Dancing on the Elephant or the documentaries, The...

  The market season begins with a trip to Park City in January. Walter Forsyth will be there for the first half of the fest so please  reach out if you are a) a sales agent looking for a dramatic feature for ROW outside of Canada, b) producers looking to...

We are pleased to announce that we have closed financing on the feature documentary, A Lifetime in Photobooths with a successful application to La Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC). Production will begin in September. Did we mention that we...

Tanya and Walter have begun to set up meetings at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival. If you are interested in working with Gorgeous Mistake Productions, please email us. Nova Scotia offers amazing locations, excellent tax incentives, equity investment, and...

Bell Fund provided key development for two feature documentaries we are making, THE HANDS THAT FEED US and A LIFETIME IN PHOTOBOOTHS. Bell Fund recently released their annual report and they featured our projects on page 18 and 19. See the report here.

We are happy to announce that the Rogers Documentary Fund has joined the supporting partners for A Lifetime of Photobooths. Thank you to all the funders and partners who will be on this journey with EyeSteel Films and GMP.

In partnership with EyeSteel Films, Gorgeous Mistake Productions is happy to announce that we will be going into production on A Lifetime in Photobooths this summer. With help from CMF, Telefilm, Bell Fund and SODEC the development is nearing completion. Production...

Having sat on the board of directors of Hot Docs for six years, Walter has a keen interest in the chaos that is Hot Docs 2024. Plus being film festival administrators - Tanya presents the Hellifax Horror Fest (with Walter's help) and Walter is part of the team that...