ALWAYS HAD A NICE TIME
Kire Paputts | Canada | 2024 | 88m
A character-driven documentary that follows the lives of six different people living in Toronto’s Parkdale community going through transitional moments in their lives.
MATURE THEMES.
Not suitable for viewers under the age of 18.
Candy is a trans woman whose late sexual awakening has inspired her to live life more boldly.
Jack is an artist who has created a new art movement (Spiritual Depressionism) and is desperately looking for others to join his cause.
Kingi is a Toronto fashion designer who has specialized in screen printing clothing for over thirty years. Surviving a devastating fire, she’s struggling to get her business up and running.
Grizz is an artist living in an encampment at a neighbourhood park. He spends his days painting, getting high, meeting new people, and grieving over the recent loss of his two daughters and granddaughter.
Best friends, Ron and Phil, are panhandlers. They spend their days drinking, laughing, and bringing smiles to the community. When Ron falls ill, it puts their friend and future of panhandling in jeopardy.
Always Had A Nice Time is a celebration of doing what makes you happy, a rejection of societal norms, and a reminder that happiness looks different for each and every one of us.
Kire Paputts is a lover of cinema, animals, fitness, garage sales, and Olive Garden. He is an award-winning Canadian producer/director whose films center around outsider culture. People and characters on the fringes whose voices are mad silenced or overlooked. His company Made By Other People was started in 2014 and is a boutique film production company that strives to create high-quality and bold entertainment no matter the scope of project or size of budget.
TOTAL PIXEL SPACE
Jacob Adler | USA | 2025 | 9m
Total Pixel Space contains every possible digital image, including films of your entire life, every life you never lived, and the lives of every creature or object that ever and never existed on or off the earth, from every possible angle.
Jacob Adler is a composer, performer, and teacher.
He has released 6 albums of music, and he performs on the piano, organ, laptop, accordion, tanpura, and tsimbl in several ensembles specializing in early music, contemporary classical, Hindustani, free jazz, and klezmer. He has performed his compositions at Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Amsterdam, Musica Moderna festival in Łódź, Göteborg International Organ Festival in Sweden, the Issue Project Room in New York, and other festivals in Europe and the U.S.