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🎬 Vancouver-based film & TV production company.
📽️In theatres: THE PAINTED LIFE OF EJ HUGHES
📺 Now streaming: WILDFIRE, HAIDA MODERN, PREGGOLAND

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Official red carpet photos from this year’s Leo Awards dropped. 💃🕺🏻 Optic Nerve Films was thrilled to have its two most recent projects recognized with multiple honours… THE PAINTED LIFE OF E.J. HUGHES won three awards in the Feature-length Documentary category: 🏆 Best Direction for Jenn Strom; 🏆 Best Editing for Jenn Strom; and 🏆 Best Musical Score for Mark Lazeski!🎉Meanwhile our 5-part docuseries, WILDFIRE received three nominations in the Documentary Series category:🏅Best Direction for Kevin Eastwood & Clay Mitchell; 🏅Best Cinematography for Clay Mitchell & Simon Shave; and🏅Best Musical Score for Andrew Harris. Thank you to the @LeoAwards for these honours and to our broadcaster on both projects, @KnowledgeNetwork! 👏🙏

Pictured here:
1) The EJ Hughes team
2) Director Jenn Strom with her two big wins!
3) The Wildfire team
4) Strom and Bryan Marshall
5) Producer Kevin Eastwood with Wildfire researcher and Leo-nominated director for Clan of the Painted Lady, Jennfer Chiu

#ejhughesfilm #thepaintedlifeofejhughes #wildfire #knowledgenetwork #ejhughes taken in Hyatt Regency Vancouver by @opticnervefilms

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Hey #Victoria: if you haven’t seem THE PAINTED LIFE OF E.J. HIUGHES, here’s your chance… Hot on the heels of a Hughes painting selling for a record-breaking $5.7 Million at auction a few weeks ago, the film is returning for one day. Catch it this Sunday, June 14 at the Cinecenta at UVIc! See www.cinecenta.com or link in bio for more details.

#ejhughes #ejhughesfilm #cinecentafilms #uvicfilm taken in Cinecenta Films by @opticnervefilms

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Last Saturday night, Optic Nerve Films was honoured to win two Golden Sheaf Awards at the @YorktonFilm Festival for its two most recent projects:

🔥 WILDFIRE
🏆 Golden Sheaf Award winner for Best Documentary Series
🎥 Directors/Producers: Kevin Eastwood, Clay Mitchell, Simon Shave
📽️ Production companies: Optic Nerve Films, @CK9Studios

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🎨 THE PAINTED LIFE OF E.J. HUGHES
🏆 Golden Sheaf Award winner for Best Director (Non-Fiction)
🎥 Director: Jenn Strom (@picturecutter)
🎬 Producers: Kevin Eastwood, Jenn Strom
📽️ Production company: Optic Nerve Films

Congrats to the production teams and everyone involved in both projects! 👏 And thanks to the Yorkton Film Festival and the presenting sponsors, @Frank.Digital and Royal Auto Group for these honours — and to our partners at @KnowledgeNetwork for their support! 🙏

#wildfiredocumentary #ejhughesfilm #dgcbctalent #knowledgenetwork #yorktonfilmfestival taken in Yorkton, Saskatchewan by @opticnervefilms

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Optic Nerve Films was thrilled to learn that THE PAINTED LIFE OF E.J HUGHES was nominated for 4 @LeoAwardsBC today:🦁🏆

📽️ BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY (producers: Kevin Eastwood & Jenn Strom)
🎬 BEST DIRECTION: Jenn Strom (@picturecutter)
🎞️ BEST PICTURE EDITING: Jenn Strom
🎹 BEST MUSICAL SCORE: Make Lazeski (@marklazeskimusic)

Congrats to everyone who was part of the film, either in front of or behind the camera, and thank you to the Leo Awards! 👏🙏

#leoawards2026 #ejhughesfilm #ejhughespaintsbritishcolumbia #knowledgenetwork #ejhughes taken in Leo Awards by @opticnervefilms

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Optic Nerve Films was honoured to learn that our Knowledge Originals series, WILDFIRE🔥 received multiple nominations at the @LeoAwardsBC today. 🦁🏆

The series received nominations in the Documentary Series category for:
🎬 BEST DIRECTION (Kevin Eastwood, Clay Mitchell),
🎥 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Clay Mitchell, Simon Shave) and
🎹 BEST MUSICAL SCORE (Andrew Harris).

Congrats to our entire team and thank you to the Leo Awards! 👏

If you haven’t seen the series, you can stream it for free across Canada at knowledge.ca 📺 (see link in bio)

#leoawards2026 #wildfiredocumentary #bcwildfire #knowledgenetwork by @opticnervefilms

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#Vancouver: it’s your last chance to catch THE PAINTED LIFE OF E.J. HUGHES at the VIFF Centre! Show is at 5:45pm. You still have time to get there! 📽️🍿

#ejhughes #viffcentre #whatsonvancouver #ejhughespaintsbritishcolumbia taken in Viff Vancity Theatre by @opticnervefilms

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After 10 weeks playing to packed houses, THE PAINTED LIFE OF E.J. HUGHES has only one screening left at the VIFF Centre.

If you haven’t seen the film, don’t miss this last chance to see it on the big screen! The film plays THIS TUESDAY, April 14 at 5:45pm.

🎟️ Go to viff.org for tickets or more information.

#ejhughes #ejhughesfilm #viffcentre #vancouverfilm #cdnart taken in Vancouver International Film Festival by @opticnervefilms

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Victoria, thank you for your support 🩷 - “The Painted Life of E.J Hughes” has been extended at The Vic Theatre, including a screening tonight at 7:15pm. If you know people who would still like to see it on the big screen, please pass it on! taken in The Vic Theatre by @opticnervefilms

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Hey Vancouver Island: we’ve added two more theatres to our run this week: @DuncanCinemas and @RavensCryTheatre. If you have friends in Duncan or Sechelt, respectively please spread the word! Plus we’re held over for a 3rd week at The Vic Theatre in Victoria (@victoriafilmfest) and 10th week(!!) at the VIFF Centre (@VIFFest) in Vancouver! In all cases, this will be your LAST WEEK to see the film on the big screen!

Showtimes:

Raven’s Cry Theatre:
Sat Apr 11 & Sun Apr 12 @ 2pm

Duncan Cinemas:
Sun Apr 12 @ 11am

Vic Theatre:
Tues Apr 7 @ 7:15pm (Today!)
Tues Apr 14 @ 5:15pm
Thurs Apr 16 @ 7:15pm

VIFF Centre (Final week!)
Sat Apr 11 @ 2:50pm
Tues Apr 14 @ 5:45pm

#ejhughes #ejhughesfilm #duncanbc #secheltbc #ejhughesgallery taken in Vancouver Island, BC, Canada by @opticnervefilms

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🍿 Hey Victoria: if you missed it at the @VictoriaFilmFest, THE PAINTED LIFE OF EJ HUGHES is returning to the Vic Theatre! 🎞️

📽️ Showtimes as follows:

• Sat Mar 28 at 7:15pm
• Sun Mar 29 at 3:00pm
• Wed Apr 1 at 5:15

🎟️ For tickets go to victoriafilmfestival.com or see link in bio

#TheVicTheatre #TheVicTheatreVictoriaBC #EJHughes #EJHughesFilm #victoriabcevents taken in The Vic Theatre by @opticnervefilms

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🎉We’re excited to announce that WILDFIRE has been nominated for an International Rockie Award at the 2026 Banff World Media Festival! 🏔️🏆📺

Congrats to all the cast and crew, everyone at @OpticNerveFilms & @CK9Studios, and our partners @KnowledgeNetwork! 🍾

Congrats too to all our friends who are also nominated! For a link to the Variety article, see link in bio!

#wildfire #wildfiredocumentary #bcwildfires #banffworldmediafestival #knowledgenetwork taken in Banff World Media Festival by @opticnervefilms

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As my friends know, I am a fanatic for old movie theatres, so the past couple days were a special treat as I got to return to one of my favourite movie theatres around: the glorious Patricia Theatre in qathet (formerly known as Powell River).

Thank you to my old mentor/instructor from Emily Carr, Peg Campbell and her partner, Gary Shilling for bringing THE PAINTED LIFE OF E.J. HUGHES to the @qathetfilm festival! It was an honour to present the film to another coastal BC community where audiences know and love EJ Hughes’ work. And speaking of artists, big thanks as well to @MeghanHildebrand for moderating our Q&A — and also for inviting myself and director Jenn Strom for a studio visit. If you’re not familiar with Meghan’s work, do yourself a favour and check out her Instagram to see her extraordinary paintings. 👩🏼‍🎨 🎨 🖼️

And if you haven’t seen THE PAINTED LIFE OF EJ HUGHES but want to, we have some exciting news: the film is expanding to more theatres around the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island! Stay tuned for theatres and dates.📽️🎞️🍿

#ejhughes #ejhughespaintsbritishcolumbia #patriciatheatre #qathetfilmfestival @qathetartist taken in The Patricia Theatre {est 1913} by @opticnervefilms

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