In Memory of John Dunning
September 23, 2011 
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It is with great sadness that we learned of John Dunning‘s passing earlier this week. A titan of Canadian independent filmmaking – his company with Andre Link, Cinepix, gave us Valerie, L’Initiation, Shivers, Rabid, Meatballs, My Bloody Valentine and more – Dunning had a drive and creative spark that brought Canadian cinema out of the didactic and onto the world cheap discount levitra stage. We had the great pleasure of being able to honour John Dunning and his partner Andre Link with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Fantasia this past summer, and although Dunning was too ill to attend the ceremony in person, we have attached here both the Cinepix Tribute video that screened at the ceremony, which features an exclusive interview with John, as well as the festival overview of days 7+8 that features footage of the ceremony itself. John’s passing is a tremendous loss to the film community and we only hope that other Canadian filmmakers and producers can learn from his example to carry on cialis prescription his remarkable legacy.
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books generic propecia online within canada including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
