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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...

After four weeks, we bid farewell to an amazing team and wonderful cast - thank you everyone for such great work. Now the post-production team takes over with hopes of getting a completed film by the end of June.

We are happy to announce that the dramatic feature film co-directed by Julia Neil and Jacob Smith, Dancing on the Elephant,  went to camera on February 26. We were supposed to start on the 23rd but a positive Covid test set us back a wee bit. Wow, producing is fun. We...

September is always a hectic month, with TIFF, AIFF and Lunenburg is quick succession. This year is no different. Tanya and Walter attended TIFF and got to see Erin as she worked at TIFF Industry and now is starting at Vortex. Go Erin Go. AIFF Partners should be fun...

It will be interesting to witness TIFF during the actors' strike. The market seems active and there are lots of great films. But the stars create the buzz. Regardless, let's meet on Kings St. and then go see a film. We will be there Sept. 8-12.

We are thrilled to announce that our series, Living in Flow picked up the award for Best Non-Scripted TV Series at last night's sold out Screen Nova Scotia Awards. Congrats to the whole team and our partners, Telus Fund, Vice Media Canada and the Government of Nova...

GMP will be represented by Tanya Preyde and Walter Forsyth at the 30th Hot Docs Festival in Toronto from April 27 to May 4. If you have a project that needs a Nova Scotian or Canadian partner, please reach out: tanya@gorgeousmistake.com