Showing typical Canadian modesty, Burns is using the observation as proof that his 2000 satire, waydowntown, may not have had a lasting impact when it comes to discussing the merit of the 18 ...

Gary Burns’ “waydowntown,” an independent film set in the bustling, generic Canadian metropolis of Calgary, is yet another such success. Combining the eerily insightful voice-overs in the ...

Shot in jittery, supersaturated digital video, Gary Burns’s waydowntown infuses the nine-to-five ritual with a palliative pharmaceutical rush, channeling the endemic coffee-addled buzz and ...

Waydowntown, the Gary Burns’ dark comedy shot in Calgary’s downtown Plus-15s which screened at the inaugural festival in 2000, was among the first wave of films the festival announced today in ...