*New Canadian Film: The Right Way

Mark Penney, makes his indie debut with The Right Way, shot in around Brampton for $10,000 on digital video.

From The Globe:

Enter twentysomething Canadian director Mark Penney with an old-fashioned, grim Canadian movie that, frame by frame and line by line, has no shot at the box office or even the sparsely attended but de rigueur week at the Carlton cinema. It is screening tonight and tomorrow at Camera Bar in Toronto's west end, which should just about cover the courier cost of sending DVD copies to the press.

It's a shame because, despite its paramount flows, The Right Way marks the birth of a promising young director who can sustain enough darkness and despair for 80 minutes to make early Atom Egoyan look like a lost Wayne and Shuster special. Penney's tale of woe has it all: drugs, suicide, abortion, suburban alienation and abusive parents who tell their children they're too lazy to wipe their own asses.

Mark, send us a copy. We'll review it and send the copy back to you so you can get the word out.

Camera Bar

[Review via The Globe and Mail]