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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

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...

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...