Agriotherium Film & Video Production

14/01/2024

It’s a new year and a new country for Not Quite That. We are thrilled to announce that we are heading to Spain to screen - the International Documentary Film Festival on Gender that will take place in Soria from the 9th to 16th March 2024.





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25/11/2023

Fresh!
A bunch of super rad faces, places, and projects! Thank you directors and producers for your trust. Looking forward to what’s next ✨

Thank you directors and producers for your trust! Looking forward to what's next Music: Us Against the World by Jungle

25/09/2023

Not Quite That Documentary continues it's festival run at the Scottish Q***r International Film Festival!

New SQIFF Programme Highlight ‼ 🎥✨❤️‍🔥

Today's pick is Not Quite That directed by Ali Grant (). Not Quite That Documentary follows 57-year-old Sarah, a butch le***an predisposed to breast cancer. Sarah discusses the implications of a mastectomy as a butch-presenting person. She contemplates if people would perceive her as transmasculine and how that would make her feel.

This film is followed by two shorts. Director Leo Torre of The Ship of Theseus will join us to chat about short filmmaking and the importance of q***r/ trans friendships.

Curated by Nat Lall ()

🔗To browse the full brochure of films and events, go to our website: www.sqiff.org

Image description: Sarah looks at herself in the mirror. She’s wearing a colourful shirt with designs in blue, orange, and purple.

21/09/2023

Tickets available for Suddenly Slaughter!

The Biting School is thrilled to announce the premiere of Suddenly Slaughter at The Cinematheque on Tuesday, October 10 at 7pm.

16/09/2023

This was such a great project to shoot - showing at The Cinematheque this October!
https://www.facebook.com/100064621275286/posts/669720458525324/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

06/04/2023

Had the pleasure of shooting part of Not Quite That_The Movie last spring! It's premiering at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival!

Really stoked to share that “Not Quite That” will have its world premiere next month .

Huge thanks to for this honour and to our producer extraordinaire Cari Green, editor , cinematographer , composer Marilyn Lerner, sound designer , animator , story editor , , production coordinator and the rest of the gang as well as , , and for their incredible support.

Love to and all your friends and family for trusting us with your story.
See you in Vancouver!
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04/03/2023

Tickets are on sale now for our absolutely 🔥 program for the final Cinema Spectacular!

13/01/2023

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Growing up, Teresa Alfeld had no idea Doug Bennett was a rock star — she just knew him as her best friend's dad. Her film Doug and the Slugs and Me airs Jan. 15 on CBC.

03/01/2023

Doug and the Slugs and Me is coming to CBC Gem for streaming AND to CBC (channel 3) January 18th at 8pm!

I didn’t realize how special Doug’s music was until decades later

06/07/2022

Big news for Cinema Spectacular!

Extra extra! Read all about it:
https://cinemaspectacular.com/weve-got-news/

20/06/2022

It's Chill Nature Time

http://laurelkbrown.ca/2022/06/last-light-on-the-rapids/

07/05/2022

More Doug and the Slugs and Me! Now on The YVR Screen Scene Podcast

What comes to your mind when you hear the words “Doug and the Slugs”? If you live in Canada and grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, you probably think of one of the hottest party bands of the era fronted by the unlikeliest of rockstars: the late, great Doug Bennett. And you probably smile, because songs like “Too Bad” and “Real Enough” and “Making It Work” and “Day By Day” and their accompanying music videos were fun, and because Slugmania was real. You can revisit the songs and the men who made them in Doug and the Slugs and Me, a fascinating and fun documentary by Vancouver filmmaker Teresa Alfeld about the man that publicist-turned-MuchMusic VJ Denise Donlon describes in the film as “more a carnie than a s*x symbol.” The film follows the rise of the Vancouver band and its frontman through archival footage, interviews with band members, Doug’s family, and icons like Ed the Sock, Bif Naked, Ron Sexsmith, and Sir Bob Geldof. We also hear from Doug himself through the journals he left behind.

Doug and the Slugs and Me is a film about the Slugs, about music, making music, legacy, friendship, ego, dreams, grief, and the documentarian’s starting point, namely: “What happened to this man we thought we knew?”Documentarian Teresa Alfeld – who grew up next to the Bennett family and was best friends with one of Doug’s daughters – visits the to talk about Doug and the Slugs and her remarkable film, which screens at the 2022 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Listen on Apple Podcasts, everywhere podcasts are enjoyed for free, or on the YVR Screen Scene site.

On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-220-doug-and-the-slugs-and-me/id1457938433?i=1000559818578

On the YVR Screen Scene site: https://www.yvrscreenscene.com/home/2022/5/6/episode-220-doug-and-the-slugs-and-me

06/05/2022

Director Teresa Alfeld talks Doug and the Slugs and Me on CTV Vancouver!

Director of 'Doug and the Slugs and Me', Teresa Alfeld joins CTV Morning Live to speak about the film and the upcoming showing at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival!

13/04/2022

Gaffed a tiny little piece of Nisha Platzer’s Back Home which will be showing in France!

06/04/2022

LOVELY news to wake up to this morning - Teresa Alfeld’s Doug and the Slugs and Me is closing out DOXA Documentary Film Festival! This was an incredible project to be a part of over the year(s!), congratulations team!

🔥 Get hyped!! 🔥 We're excited to announce our Special Presentations for DOXA 2022! Check out the full details at DOXAFestival.ca and stay tuned for our full program launch on April 13th. We can't wait to get this year's festival started!! 🎉

DOXA 2022 runs from May 5-15 with screenings happening both in-person and online. Sign up to our newsletter to receive the latest updates!

12/02/2022

Feelin' big 'like butter scraped over too much bread' Bilbo Baggins energy in 2022 so far.
http://laurelkbrown.ca/2022/02/the-patience-to-build-and-wait/

Every time I think I’ve pushed through a certain kind of stress, another one kind of shows up to rudely crash my party. My mental toolkit of things to keep my head above the water is getting a little messy – the screwdriver is missing, there’s an empty plastic baggie that once held drywall scr...

08/02/2022

Golden Delicious Film is representing Canada at the Frameline Completion Fund - I was gaffer for this Telefilm Canada feature last spring! Congrats, team! 🤩

05/02/2022

Gaffed this rad little project with a great team (and also a lovely lizard 😗) - check out the BTS of the build and the shoot! Looking forward to seeing it all put together!

This is "EDEN Jungle Time-lapse" by Jenn Strom on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

02/02/2022

Querencia’s tearing up the Canadian Screen Awards! Got to gaff this one in 2020 - congrats, team!

26/01/2022

Oop - hi! First Chill Nature Time of 2022!
http://laurelkbrown.ca/2022/01/last-seasons-start/

Oh hey – if you’re reading this, you’ve most certainly made it to 2022. High fives all around.It’s been a Time, folks. I had my first solo Christmas, it dumped snow! Gave myself an extended holiday which has just kind of… kept doing due to job cancellations from COVID. I have been able to ...

01/12/2021

Thanks Bryce for having me on the podcast again! Tune in to the Let's Watch That - A Film Review Podcast. and learn how to tell when I'm spiraling just by what I'm watching on Letterboxd.
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/21332474/tdest_id/910574

Laurel K Brown (Cinema Spectacular) is back on the podcast this week talking about the fantastic film Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse! We also talk about Marvel, animation movies, Spider-Man, and just movies in general! Enjoy! Episode sponsored by   Promo Code: Letswatchpod Rate! Review! Subscribe...

03/11/2021

This Sunday, catch two short docs at The Rio Theatre Carmen Pollard’s Militant Mother and Teresa Alfeld’s Jean Swanson: We Need a New Map

Two new documentaries look at their tireless battles for change. We need their ilk more than ever.

29/10/2021

Sometimes your brain needs a break 🤷‍♀️

So here's a playlist of all of the Chill Nature Times, just for you

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23/10/2021

It's Chill (with some ducks) Nature Time 😤
https://laurelkbrown.ca/2021/10/starry-surface/

Love real-life particle physics generators but with ducks.Nothing’s very the same for very long, isn’t it? Keeps us on our toes. With November coming in like a freight train, I find autumn in Vancouver a rather short, wet affair followed by many months of a humid, low cloud ceiling sort of vibe....

14/10/2021

Production workers at Netflix, Amazon and other major studios are forced to skip meals & bathroom breaks, working 12+ hr days at minimum wage. The workers, r...

30/09/2021

Last pond trip of the summer
https://laurelkbrown.ca/2021/09/ebb-and-lily-pad/

Autumn is officially here; with it comes cozy, spiced coffees and evenings spent making big batches of food to stock in the freezer for when things get busy. Some heavy rain has caught me while at work a couple of times and has had me thinking “maybe summer wasn’t so bad’, but the grass is alw...

09/09/2021

Gaffing with See Horse Films last month was a blast! Congratulations to the Smoke Eater team!