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Release: November 28, 2023

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Cindy was a hooker trapped in the East End Hustle. Now she's getting revenge on those who treated her like dirt. Cindy (Born for Hell's Andrée Pelletier) is outraged by the sadism of her pimp boyfriend Dan (Ghost Story's Miguel Fernandes), so she turns her back on him and her seedy profession. As he attempts to lure her back, she doubles down on her rebellion by liberating new recruit Marianne (Bingo's Anne-Marie Provencher) and giving safe haven to several of Dan's most prized employees, crippling his business. As this gang of frustrated sex workers waits for the dust to settle, Dan grows incensed, escalating the dispute into a full-blown war. Leaning into his mafia connections and insatiable appetite for violence, Dan orders vicious retaliation... but Cindy has some vengeful tricks up her sleeve. An unsung Canadian exploitation classic originally brought to American screens by Lloyd Kaufman's Troma Entertainment, EAST END HUSTLE is a sordid crime saga that finds an unexpected balance of horror and humanity. Reuniting director Frank Vitale with his key collaborators from the acclaimed Montreal Main, this gritty, unblinking revenge saga anticipates future genre staples like Ms .45 and The Ladies Club. Fueled by an urgent sense of danger and a memorably funky, synth-laden score by noted screenwriter Len Blum (Meatballs), EAST END HUSTLE is a '70s genre gem like no other. Bonus Features: 1. 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray Set 2. 4K UHD presented in High-Dynamic-Range 3. Newly scanned and restored in 4K from the 35mm original camera negative by Canadian International Pictures with sound transferred from the 35mm optical track 4. Audio commentary featuring Paul Corupe of Canuxploitation.com and film historian Jason Pichonsky 5. East End Director (2023, 18 min.) – New interview with writer-director Frank Vitale 6. The Art Bug (2023, 8 min.) – Vitale on Montreal Main and his career before East End Hustle 7. East End Troma (2023, 14 min.) – New interview with distributor Lloyd Kaufman 8. Kaufman’s Canada (2023, 5 min.) – Kaufman reflects on his Canadian connections 9. Renegade Films (2023, 10 min.) – New interview with writer Bill Brownstein on Cinépix and its co-founder John Dunning 10. Audio interview with composer Len Blum (2023, 15 min.) 11. Theatrical trailer 12. Booklet featuring a new essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 13. Reversible cover artwork 14. English SDH subtitles Top About this item From the Brand Reviews East End Hustle [4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray]

Release: February 24, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Who next becomes the keeper of the beast that lives on human flesh? During a New Year’s Eve snowmobiling trip, Jenny (Rabid’s Riva Spier), her boyfriend Marty (The Grey Fox’s Murray Ord), and their friend Chrissy (Sheri McFadden) veer off path to explore a patch of private property. Stranded by a heavy snowfall, they stumble upon an abandoned hotel and seek refuge for the night. But before long, they meet a menacing woman (Rad’s Georgie Collins) who shares the building with her knife-wielding son (The High Country’s Bill Grove) and a mysterious creature who feeds on human flesh. As the visiting trio comes under attack, they struggle to make a safe escape – and maintain their grip on reality. Featuring haunting performances from its entire cast and a typically atmospheric score by Paul Zaza (My Bloody Valentine), James Makichuk’s GHOSTKEEPER is an essential entry in the New Year’s Eve horror canon and a dread-inducing descent into wintery isolation and madness. Long regarded as the Canadian answer to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, this slasher staple is a Canuxploitation classic and one of the enduring highlights of the tax shelter era. Bonus Features: 1. Newly scanned and restored in 4K from the only known complete 35mm theatrical print by Canadian International Pictures 2. New audio commentary featuring stars Riva Spier and Murray Ord, plus co-writer/associate producer Doug MacLeod 3. New audio commentary featuring The Hysteria Continues! and author/film historian Amanda Reyes 4. New episode of The New World Pictures Podcast on Ghostkeeper 5. Ghostsneaker (2025, 16 min.) – New interview with film historian Chris Alexander 6. The Window of Opportunity (2025, 15 min.) – New interview with story consultant Dave Makichuk 7. I Need It Friday (2025, 10 min.) – New interview with composer Paul Zaza 8. Zaza Begins (2025, 16 min.) – Zaza reflects on his early films 9. Hollywood Canadians (2025, 14 min.) – Filmmakers Paul Lynch (Prom Night) and David Winning (Storm) reflect on Jim Makichuk 10. Calgary Underground Film Festival Q&A (2024, 41 min.) – Post-screening discussion featuring Ord, MacLeod, and Dave Makichuk 11. Archival interview with actress Georgie Collins (2011, 14 min.) – A conversation moderated by Ord and edited by Jim Makichuk 12. Archival interview with cinematographer John Holbrook (2011, 7 min.) 13. Alternate opening (1982, 2 min.) 14. Ghostkeeper 2 (2013, 6 min.) – Jim Makichuk’s Kickstarter video pitching a sequel 15. Night School (1971, 2 min.) – Early Jim Makichuk short 16. Booklet featuring a new essay by film journalist/programmer Yasmina Ketita and an essay on the film’s production history by Eric Volmers 17. Reversible cover artwork 18. Alternate French language audio track 19. English SDH subtitles

Release: March 25, 2025

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* 40th anniversary special edition At the height of the 1980s, following their breakthrough documentary P4W: Prison for Women, filmmakers Janis Cole and Holly Dale turned their lens on Vancouver’s Davie Street neighborhood, a bustling, neon-soaked hub for both trans and cisgender sex workers informally known as “the prostitution capital of Canada.” The result was HOOKERS ON DAVIE, a landmark document combining candid interviews with a group of instantly memorable subjects and vivid location footage of their street work, surreptitiously captured with hidden cameras. An indelible community portrait, the film culminates in the group’s collective efforts to challenge and overcome legislative oppression. Much lauded upon its release in 1984 and no less potent – or engrossing – 40 years later, HOOKERS ON DAVIE showcases Cole and Dale’s deeply humanist approach, bringing care and compassion to subjects often represented in more reductively moralistic terms. CIP is proud to present this groundbreaking classic in a new 4K restoration that confirms its place among the greatest non-fiction films ever produced in Canada. Bonus Features: 1. 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray Set 2. 4K UHD presented in High-Dynamic-Range 3. Newly scanned and restored in 4K from the original 16mm A/B negatives by Canadian International Pictures with sound transferred from the original 16mm magnetic final mix 4. New audio commentary featuring directors Janis Cole and Holly Dale 5. New audio commentary featuring multi-disciplinary artist and curator Jordan King 6. New introduction to Hookers on Davie by Cole 7. Directors on Davie (2024, 23 min.) – New interview with Cole 8. Before Davie (2024, 12 min.) – Cole on her early films with Holly Dale 9. Mardi on Tiggy (2024, 14 min.) – Trans elder Mardi Pieronek’s tribute to her friend Tiggy 10. Video report on The West End Sex Workers Memorial fundraiser (2009, 7 min.) 11. Toronto Arts Awards tribute to Cole and Dale (1994, 4 min.) 12. CBC interview (1984, 8 min.) – Barbara Frum in conversation with Cole and Dale 13. Citytv interview (1984, 3 min.) – Jeanne Beker in conversation with Cole and Dale 14. Hookers on Davie home movies (1983, 34 min.) 15. Afterword featuring Cole and Dale (2024, 8 min.) 16. Cream Soda (1975, 13 min.) – New 2K scan of Cole and Dale’s first short 17. Minimum Charge No Cover (1976, 11 min.) – New 2K scan of Cole and Dale’s second short 18. New introductions to both shorts by Cole 19. New audio commentaries for both shorts featuring Cole and Dale 20. New audio commentaries for both shorts featuring King 21. Hookers on Davie archival press gallery 22. Booklet featuring essays by Kay Armatage, Adrian Rui Hung, and Cayley James 23. Reversible cover artwork 24. English SDH subtitles

Release: July 28, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Four more trailblazing classics from the dawn of Québec’s cinematic revolution BETWEEN SWEET AND SALT WATER (Entre la mer et l'eau douce) – Leaving his rural hometown for the trials and tribulations of success in the city, young folksinger Claude (Orders star Claude Gauthier) begins a charged romance with waitress Geneviève (Dead Ringers’ Geneviève Bujold). Legendary filmmaker Michel Brault’s celebrated fiction feature debut transposed the intimacy and immediacy of his vérité work and brought new legitimacy to independent cinema in Québec. WHERE ARE YOU? (Où êtes-vous donc?) – Coming together across an extended road trip to Montréal, Christian, Georges, and Mouffe each forge a unique path in the face of an increasingly consumerist society. Filmmaker Gilles Groulx’s follow-up to The Cat in the Bag is an intoxicating formal kaleidoscope that pushes cinematic language to its limits. GENEVIÈVE – Traveling to Québec City for a winter carnival, teenagers Geneviève (Bujold) and Louise (A Woman in Transit's Louise Marleau) experience the joys and disillusionment of a young love affair with Bernard (Bernard Arcand) in Michel Brault’s first collaboration with Bujold. FABIENNE (Fabienne sans son jules) – Restless with local celebrity and longing for a lead role in a film, free-spirited chanteuse Fabienne (famed Québécois singer Pauline Julien) relentlessly pursues an offscreen Jean-Luc Godard in this early short from Jacques Godbout (YUL 871). Bonus Features: 1. Region Free Blu-ray 2. Scanned and restored in 2K from the 35mm interpositives 3. New Between Sweet and Salt Water audio commentary featuring author/professor André Loiselle 4. New interview with former Cinémathèque québécoise director Robert Daudelin on Where Are You? and the films of Gilles Groulx 5. Geneviève Bujold: Art = Life (2018, 5 min.) – A tribute to Michel Brault starring Bujold 6. Theatrical trailers for Between Sweet and Salt Water, Where Are You?, and the three features from The Other New Wave, Vol. 1 7. Booklet featuring a new essay by author Ralph Elawani and a new interview with Godbout by film programmer Marc Lamothe 8. Reversible cover artwork The Other French New Wave Vol. 2 [Blu-ray] The Other French New Wave Vol. 2 Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews

Release: June 23, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* The kids your mother never let you play with. Charismatic painter Steve (Scanners star Stephen Lack) has carved out a reputation as Montréal’s premiere drug connection, trafficking narcotics with a crew of friends and lovers living as a makeshift “family” on the fringes of society. But tensions rise when the police catch wind of their latest shipment, and Steve strikes up a friendship with a university student eager to observe the group’s illicit lifestyle for his graduate thesis. As the walls start to close in, old jealousies and new paranoias surface, and the family scrambles to adapt or perish. Featuring seven songs by acclaimed Leonard Cohen collaborator Lewis Furey, the directorial debut of Allan Moyle (Times Square, Pump Up the Volume, Empire Records) is an innovative drug drama that set the stage for Drugstore Cowboy and other celebrated portraits of addiction. Equal parts Warhol and Cassavetes, the film’s docu-fiction approach earned widespread praise for its urgency and vivid reality, with The Toronto International Film Festival citing it as “one of the best films of the ’70s.” Out of official circulation for decades, THE RUBBER GUN returns in a stunning new restoration from the original camera negatives. Bonus Features: 1. Newly scanned and restored in 2K from the original 16mm A/B negatives by Canadian International Pictures with sound transferred from the answer print 2. New interviews with actor and co-writer Stephen Lack 3. New interview with director Allan Moyle 4. New interview with composer Lewis Furey 5. New interview with co-cinematographer Frank Vitale 6. American Cinematheque Q&A – Post-screening discussion featuring Moyle 7. Fantasia International Film Festival intro and Q&A featuring Lack and Vitale 8. Original theatrical outro song 9. Archival stills gallery 10. Theatrical re-release trailer 11. Booklet featuring a new essay by professor Nathan Holmes and an archival profile by P.M. Massé-Connolly 12. Reversible cover artwork 13. English SDH subtitles Top Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews The Rubber Gun [Blu-ray] The Rubber Gun

Release: August 25, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* An unclassifiable animated odyssey from the director of Heavy Metal. A group of monkeys, including a director loosely inspired by Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider persona, struggle through various trials and tribulations while making an epic adventure film in this psychedelic and satirical look at the Hollywood counterculture of the early ’70s. Directed by celebrated animator Gerald Potterton – who earned multiple Oscar nominations for his work at the National Film Board of Canada, contributed to Yellow Submarine, and later directed Heavy Metal – this is an outrageous and inspired feat of cinematic imagination. An unlikely hybrid of analogue animation and live action Soviet fantasy film, TIKI TIKI repurposes extended passages from Rolan Bykov’s eye-popping 1967 phantasmagoria Aybolit-66 as the film within the film, employing irreverent comic dubbing and cutting to subvert the original intent. The result puzzled and thrilled ’70s audiences in equal measure and turned heads by winning Mosfilm art director Aleksandr Kuznetsov a Canadian Film Award. An unapologetically eccentric experience that has earned comparisons to H.C. Potter’s Hellzapoppin', TIKI TIKI remains one of the most sought-after animated enigmas of its era. Bonus Features: 1. Newly scanned and restored in 4K from the original 35mm A/B negatives by Canadian International Pictures with sound transferred from the three-track master mix 2. New audio commentary featuring Paul Corupe of Canuxploitation.com and film historian Jason Pichonsky 3. New interview with producer Murray Shostak 4. New interview with animator Paul Driessen 6. Fantasia Q&A (2024, 15 min.) – Shostak and film historian Chris Seguin at the Fantasia International Film Festival 7. Potterton Productions demo reel (1972, 23 min.) 8. Five short films directed by Potterton: Super Bus (1969, 6 min.), The Remarkable Rocket (1975, 25 min.), Canada Vignettes: Winter - Starting the Car (1979, 2 min.), Canada Vignettes: Winter - Dressing Up (1979, 1 min.), and George and the Christmas Star (1985, 24 min.) 9. Making Movie History: Gerald Potterton (2014, 5 min.) – The filmmaker reflects on his early years at the National Film Board of Canada 10. Three NFB short films with animation by Potterton: Huff and Puff (1955, 7 min.), Fish Spoilage Control (1956, 9 min.), and It’s a Crime (1957, 13 min.) 11. Original theatrical trailer 12. Theatrical re-release trailer 13. Booklet featuring a new essay by animation historian Ross Anderson and a new essay on Aybolit-66 by filmmaker/educator Olga Egovora 14. Reversible cover artwork 15. English SDH subtitles Tiki Tiki [Blu-ray] Tiki Tiki Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews