Kino Sum Productions

Oki! We are happy to announce that our film Iikaiksimatsa’pao’p is continuing its festival run with two new official selections: No Man’s Land Film Festival happening in Denver, Colorado and Moariland happening in Otaki, Aotearoa, New Zealand!

We are so excited for this opportunity, and we thank you for your continued love and support.

Lucky Star drops on this Friday, October 3! Huge thanks to everyone who came out to one of our festival or theatrical shows across Canada and the USA. For anyone who would like to watch Lucky Star at home, we’re available across North American VOD.

Pretty choked up remembering the enormous efforts of the cast and crew of LUCKY STAR. Thank you to everyone who pushed this baby into the world. LUCKY STAR begins streaming on July 1 and is now available on VOD.

You can now listen to Rebecca Bruton and Kurt Newman’s original score for ORPHANED, released by , at the click link in bio!

“The unique challenge posed by the Orphaned soundtrack was to create an ‘atmospheric’ score – a series of pieces ever-present at low volume beneath the documentary dialogue. Where the Circle of Steel score was intended to function as an additional character in the film, Gillian asked for music that could sit polyphonically within the acoustics of the Alberta landscapes she was investigating.

For this score I chose experimental Toronto guitarist Kurt Newman of the ‘Nashville Minimalism Unit’ as my co-creator. Kurt’s musical approaches have included years of free jazz study, an extensive pedal steel practice involving multiple huge pedal boards, as well as a deep commitment to idiomatic country and bluegrass guitar stylings. I felt he would understand my goal to ‘disunify’ the subjective line of each musical work, while remaining tethered to folk and country roots. We both performed the score for Orphaned, me on electric and acoustic guitars and fiddle, and Kurt on dobro, pedal steel, and acoustic guitar with layers of pedal processing. We recorded in separate locations before having the tracks mixed by here in Calgary. We hope you enjoy this minimalist, landscape-inspired series of pieces!”

– rebecca bruton