Winner of the Best Canadian Feature at the 2022 Toronto Inside Out 2SLGBTQIA+ Film Festival and official selection of the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, OUT IN THE RING explores the rise and history of LGBTQIA+ professional wrestlers and representation in the sport. Using a combination of interviews with LGBTQIA+ wrestling talents (past and present), allies & historians, archival footage and rare photos, OUT IN THE RING uncovers the history of the pro wrestling industry and the rise of visibility for performers and fans around the world.

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A FILM BY PHYLLIS ELLIS

When international sport governing bodies rule that ‘identified’ female athletes must medically alter their healthy bodies, under the guise of fair play, four champion runners from the Global South fight back against racism, the policing of women’s bodies in sport, and the violation of their human rights.

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Documentary “Toxic Beauty” Nominated for International Emmy Award

The story of one family’s forgotten pet turtle.

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Bermuda Lost
 Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.

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Don't Leave Home Movie

Director: Michael Tully   Writer: Michael Tully

| Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 14 November 2018 (Philippines)

An American artist’s obsession with a disturbing urban legend leads her to an investigation of the story’s origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.

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The Night Watchmen Movie

Director: Mitchell Altieri   Story by: Dan DeLucaKen Arnold   Writers: Dan DeLucaJamie Nash

| Comedy, Horror | 21 November 2017 (USA)

Three inept night watchmen, aided by a young rookie and a fearless tabloid journalist, fight an epic battle to save their lives. A mistaken warehouse delivery unleashes a horde of hungry vampires, and these unlikely heroes must not onaly save themselves but also stop the scourge that threatens to take over the city of Baltimore. 

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551 (Col Dillard) Movie
Documentary | (USA)

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Bermuda Lost
Drama | (USA)

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Bermuda Lost
 Drama 

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Cheryl Dillard Staurulakis’s Previous Productions

Don't Leave Home Movie
| Documentary | 2019

A documentary feature film with exclusive access to scientists, lawyers, advocates, regulators, politicians, a dynamic whistle blower, survivors and women who have lost their lives. It follows the class action lawsuit against J&J and the plaintiffs, personal stories of women fighting for justice in a race against time with this deadly disease.

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Aleppo
| Short, Drama | 24 March 2019 (USA)

After witnessing the death of his beloved mother and sister in a market bombing, Yaz, a bright young boy, loses his voice. Unable to escape Aleppo, his father send him and his brother on a quest to reach Turkey for a better and safer life. But in the way, they must battle the desert, hunger, ISIS and their own faith.

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The Night Watchmen Movie

Directors/Writers: Grant Korgan Brian Niles 

| Documentary | 9 February 2018 (USA)

On March 5, 2010, while filming a snowmobiling segment in the Sierra Nevada back-country, Grant Korgan burst-fractured his L1 vertebrae and was told he would never walk again.

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Four Corners
| Short, Adventure, Comedy| (USA)

Distraught to learn that there is nowhere else in the world left to discover, accomplished explorer Nathaniel J. Lockwood frantically seeks new direction in his life.

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It Happened Again Last Night (2017)

Paige must choose between love and fear before she has no choices left to make.

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Someone You Love: The HPV Epidemic

Director:  Frederic Lumiere   Writers: Mark Hefti

| Documentary, Biography | 5 September 2014 (USA)

Narrated by Vanessa Williams. The Human Papilloma Virus HPV may be the most widespread, misunderstood and potentially dangerous epidemic that most people hardly know anything about.

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Lady Ganga: Nilza's Story

Director:  Frederic Lumiere   Writers: Mark Hefti, Frederic Lumiere

| Documentary| 6 December 2015 (USA)

With just a few months left to live, Michele Baldwin broke a world record and started a movement that would save the life of another woman years later in the highest place on earth: the Himalayas.

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After Emma

Director: Gabrielle Stone   Writers: Gabrielle Stone

Short, Drama| (USA)

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