SUCK makes it’s world premiere tonight at The Toronto International Film Festival.  Click HERE to see video.

SUCK Premieres at TIFF

 For more screening times click HERE.

I just finished designing a period western film called Red Coat Justice.   It’s a story about a Mountie named Wade Grayling who brings peace and justice to a lawless northern outpost in Canada’s Yukon Territory in 1894.   The film stars Andrew Walker and Jessica Pare. 

RED COAT JUSTICE - TOWN OF MERCI

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 Jim Goodall is 33 years old and lives in Toronto, Canada.  A graduate of York University’s film and video production program, Jim has been working since 2003 as a writer, director and production designer.   Most recently Jim completed production designing a feature film called SUCK, which stars Malcolm McDowell, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Moby and Henry Rollins.   In 2007 Jim won the PITCH THIS! Award at the Toronto International Film Festival for a feature film script called GIANTLAND.   Jim also wrote and directed an award winning live action/CGI animated short film called The Interior Monologue Of Gill  The Goldfish which premiered at the 2007 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films and aired on City TV and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC).  That same year Jim designed the Genie nominated short drama, The Answer Key.   In 2005 Jim guest directed and production designed a series for the CBC entitled What It’s Like Being Alone  with producers Brad Peyton and Fred Fuchs.     In 2004 Jim co-directed and co-produced his first animated project entitled Buck’s Big Bang which screened at the 2005 World Wide Short Film Festival in Toronto.    In 2003 he made a short film and developed a TV series for YTV called Mr. Ramsbottom  which launched his professional career as a writer/director and production designer.  Before that, Jim traveled the international film festival circuit with a live action student film entitled In Timbuktu (2001), and a live action comedy called Heroes (1999) which earned him the “Best of Craft Award for Writing” at TV Ontario’s Student Telefest Awards.    Currently Jim is developing a number of TV and feature film projects and getting set to direct his first feature film with the Canadian Film Center’s Feature Film Program.   

CONTACT:

416-659-3952

thegoodster@gmail.com

The nominees for The 29th Annual Genie Awards were announced today by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (ACCT).   “The Answer Key”, a film I production designed in 2007  was  nominated in the catagory for BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA.    The 2009 Genie Awards will take place Saturday, April 4th at the Canada Aviation Museum in Ottawa, Ontario and will be broadcast on Global Television.

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Here  (TORONTO STAR) is a little bit about the latest project I’m working on called SUCK.   The film stars Malcolm McDowell,  Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Moby, Henry Rollins and a great cast of up and coming young actors.    Looks like it will be released in Oct. 2009.

Worlfest is one of the oldest and largest film & video competitions in the world, with more than 4,500 category entries received from 37 countries in 2007.  No awards are given in any category unless the scores from the juries are high enough to place for honors.

Among the remarkable number of WorldFest discoveries, we include just a few, listed in alphabetical order: John Alvidson, John Badham, Ralph Bakshi, Carroll Ballard, John Boorman, Marty Brest, Michael Cimino, The Coen Brothers, Bryan De Palma, Jonathan Demme, Michael Demme, Atom Egoyan, John Frankenheimer, Leslie Linka Glatter, Charles Guggenheim, John Lee Hancock, Hal Hartley, Randall Kleiser, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, George Lucas, David Lynch, Paul Mazursky, Steve Poster, Robert Rodriguez, John Sayles, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Robert Townsend, Will Vinton, Peter Weir, Hugh Wilson and hundreds more. The winners this year will be the Spielbergs of tomorrow and you can meet them before they are famous.

After its debut at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, “The Interior Monologue of Gill The Goldfish” returns to sunny California once again for two screenings at the Newport Beach Film Festival.    Check it out if you can.  

HERE ARE SOME LINKS TO HOW IT ALL PLAYED OUT.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/255578

http://festival.playbackmag.com/articles/20070911/pitchthis.html

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tiff/story/2007/09/11/pitchthis-winners.html 

http://blogto.com/film/2007/09/tiff_today_september_12_2007/