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So excited for this event. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/making-diversity-work-edi-for-arts-organizations-and-creatives-tickets-596162727767

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2021 is already bringing the green. (at Unceded Quw'utsun Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJpL8rRjetC/?igshid=djdwcldm4kp8

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Y’all made it to Friday! #parker #dog #ridgeback #ocean #december #sun (at Cowichan Bay, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIY2arejdnS/?igshid=17qomc2qd0e24

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Morning glow at 7am (at Crofton, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFpOs4JDGfO/?igshid=nkfudfpbocno

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Summer, Rideau Falls. ———— #sunset #billyjoellyrics #ottawa #2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CEpxhILDMd-/?igshid=9q6fwh4hq5r5

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Fully blue. #undisclosedlocation (at UNDISCLOSED TOP SECRET LOCATION) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEezcLZjhL2/?igshid=1a9bnxv4dt9qy

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Parker is in office! https://www.instagram.com/p/CEK9s8eDTXj/?igshid=1kx2c9r0r48j0

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How many times have I shot this place? It never gets old ! (at Cowichan Bay, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDsYBPIDSN6/?igshid=1fxmp9jzrwia3

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2019: The Year in Film

It’s that time again — truthfully, this is a bit late — but I’d rather get this out into the world rather than letting more time go by. Anyways — here are my film awards and musings on the final year of the decade in film:

Netflix had an amazing year, that extends their amazing last year (ROMA was my fave movie of last year by the way) and really cements their role in bringing great non-superhero films to the marketplace.The mid-budget drama can live happily on streaming — which is a bit a shame, but it’s better than a total disappearance.

Joker was cinematic, brilliant, and intoxicating — and I loved it, a minority opinion on the film web — but it was just the shot in the arm that these origin stories needed.

Marriage Story seemed like it was built for me, but felt oddly mannered, strangely constructed and cold. Strange because Baumbach’s last Netflix movie was just my cup of tea.

Little Women grew on me. At first, I didn’t love it, but it was so gorgeously adapted, and Greta Gerwig explained it so beautifully on the Scriptnotes podcast that it helped me understand so much more about what she was trying to achieve. I strongly suggest reading her beautiful script.

Emile Mosseri’s score for The Last Black Man in San Francisco is utterly remarkable and sounds like nothing released at the movies in 2019. Perhaps one of my favourite scores ever! And I LOVE movie scores. It’s also Mosseri’s first movie score! Go listen!

For the first time in a long while, I LOVED a Christian Bale performance — his work in Ford vs. Ferrari was tons of fun. I didn’t mind the movie either.

Jojo Rabbit was a big miss for me — but I think Taika Waititi is brilliant and I can’t wait to see what’s next.

Yes, I know, far too many English language movies on this list.

Here’s my full top ten + 1 list.

The Irishman

Parasite

The Farewell

Joker

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

American Factory

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

The Two Popes

Midsommar

Knives Out

Les Miserables

The Awards

Best Picture: The Irishman Best Director: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite Best Actor: Robert DeNiro, The Irishman Best Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, US Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci, The Irishman Best Supporting Actress: Shuzhen Zhao, The Farewell Best Ensemble Cast: Parasite Best Original Screenplay: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite Best Adapted Screenplay: Greta Gerwig, Little Women Best Original Score: Emile Mosseri, The Last Black Man in San Francisco Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins, 1917 Best Film Editing: Yang Jinmo, Parasite Best Art Direction: Barbara Ling, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Best Costume Design: Arianne Philips, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Best Sound: FORD vs. FERRARI

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Got to spend some time with the incredible @crystal_pite and marvellous Jonathon Young this bright and early Saturday morning as we visited @globalbc and @globeandmail to talk about Kidd Pivot’s new show ‘’Revisor’ that will be presented by @dancehouse_van and then tour North America! #mpmgarts #kiddpivot #revisor #weloveourclients #pr #morningtv (at Global BC) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsisrKYBSAk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=88f9h0f35vfo

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My new song to celebrate Christmas 2018. It’s a cover of Sara Bareilles’ beautiful song, Love is Christmas. 

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#ParkerDeFoot sends his most loyal subjects a regal greeting on this our #nationaldogday #ridgeback #dogsofinstagram #doggo #doggeh (at Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm9a4mAjPgU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13x2jxufv4171

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Friday night lights of a natural sort. (at Cowichan Bay, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmoWgMPDIgr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18ptt4snhsroh

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In 2009 one of my dearest friends, Beverley Medford, passed away after a recurrence of cancer that almost took her in 2007. Bev was an incredible human and cultivated the joy of music in all who came across her path. I remember meeting her one of the Duncan United Church’s little rooms. At one of the honky tonk pianos at age 11 or 12. She was, somewhat older. From there, it was a whirlwind of music festivals, concerts, and later university auditions and important singing competitions Around the age of 16 or 17 I’m pretty sure we became best friends— we went to concerts and plays and spent lots of time together. It definitely raised a few eyebrows, but frankly neither of us cared. All I knew was that she was lots of fun and I felt like I could be my full self with her. As close as I was to Bev, she was still an enormous mystery to me. It seemed as though she had lived at least five lives before I met her in Duncan, BC in the late nineties. She’s had other husbands and had even spent a long stint as a lounge singer in Ottawa in the seventies. With wigs. And an organ. And free cocktails. Bev always mentioned Carberry, Manitoba. She mentioned it as the place she was born and where she had gone back to care for her sick parents and where she had started a choir. She loves it when people would sing together. I never gave the place much thought- but in the years since she died, I thought of it more and more. The places we grew up in, or the places we made home have a lasting and permanent impact on us. Often times, it’s only when we leave them that we realize what they meant to us. Time goes by, time brings changes, you changed too Nothing comes that you can't handle, so on go You never see it coming when the world caves in on you On your town, nothing you can do This summer I was driving across Canada and reflecting on the places that I’ve called home in my few decades. As I was driving back to the west coast after well over a decade in Montreal— , as luck would have it, Google Maps took me right into Carberry, Manitoba. #carberry #bevmedford #manitoba

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Excited for #monicahuggett and @byronschenkman at @earlymusicvancouver #yvr #mpmgarts (at Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver)

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Big sky county + a Canadian classic. (at Champion, Alberta)

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Audio time machine

It’s time to go back in time and listen to some audio that I’ve created over the years!