Named one of the top 25 young independent filmmakers in North America by New York's Filmmaker Magazine (2002-03), and one of the top 10 Canadian Industry Trailblazers by The Reel World Film Festival, Deco Dawson has been achieving international acclaim for his body of short film work for a number of years.

One of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 1970s, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork Orange, causing a furor over film violence. Based on a little-known British novel, the film casts Dustin Hoffman as a bookish American mathematician on sabbatical in rural England, in the town where his young bride (Susan George) grew up. He finds himself forced to defend his home against an assault by local toughs, and discovers a frighteningly feral and vicious side to himself. Though Straw Dogs has a reputation for graphic violence, it actually looks tame by contemporary standards. Instead, the violence is psychological, and the suspense and shocks are induced by the editing—you're more terrified by what you think you see than by what you are actually shown. —Marshall Fine

Alternator/Gallery for Contemporary Art The Alternator Media Arts commissioned eight Okanagan artists for Fault Lines, a video art project produced in conjunction with On Common Ground, the national festival and conference of the Independent Media Arts Alliance held June 10-15, 2008 in Kelowna, BC.

Various Directors It's the first Alaska Robotics collection!! This disc features fifteen short films, commentary tracks and several hidden goodies. 

Featured Shorts:
• Socks
• Town vs Valley
• Nyac
• flexBot
• Chuck Keen
• Natural Selection
• Safety Ladder
• A Reason to Get Out
• Lamprey
• Snarfl'xxing with Humons
• "Gage's Rage
• Catfish Man - Editor's Cut
• A House Fit for a King
• Shocking Monster
• The Green Room

A Doug Porter Retrospective A Doug Porter retrospective, including the films Time Has No Image; I'd Like to Move On If I Could, Please; Walkers; Run Into Peace; Losing Sleep; and A Disturbance of Shadows.

Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Center for art tapes In 2005, the Centre For Art Tapes (CFAT) Programming Committee decided on a new program that would highlight the work of senior members. This initiative would result over the next five years in five retrospective screenings with the production of a DVD of the work to document the event.

YFS Malkom the Birder Boy, Random Acts of Silence, Lost Cabin