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Author: Vincenzo Nappi

Vincenzo Nappi is an award-winning Canadian writer and director born in Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for making Canuxploitation films with a focus on the horror and thriller genres such as "First Bite" and "Is Your Daughter Home?". He also holds a BFA in Film Studies from Concordia University and is a writer for Short Ends.
Festival Spotlights…

Genre, Genre, Genre : My time at FNC 2025

20 Nov 2025
With the year almost done, 2025 has shaped up to be quite the amazing year for genre cinema. With films like Obsession, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Exit 8, 28…
Festival Spotlights…

Oh Canada! : My time at FNC 2024

18 Nov 202426 Sep 2025
Throughout my time at this year’s FNC, I decided to focus nearly exclusively on their Canadian film selection. I chose to do this because I believe we are in the…
FNC

FNC National Short Film Competition Highlights

29 Nov 202329 Nov 2023
Those who know me know that I live and breathe Canadian cinema and am absolutely obsessed with shorts. That’s why for the 52nd edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma…
Festival Spotlights…

Festival Spotlight: SPASM 2022

8 Nov 202228 Sep 2023
Just like that, another edition of Montreal’s gut-busting, demon-summoning, face-punching Spasm Film Festival comes to a close. Here is a list of short films that were the highlights of my…
Honour

Death Through Resurrection: The Tale of Canadian Cinema

1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022
“What you’re seeing isn’t really there. When you’re seeing a projection, it’s an image of something that once was. Whether it was just five minutes ago, or a hundred years…
Into the Digital Age

An Argument for the Loser’s Side: Physical Media in a Digital Age

1 Nov 202131 Oct 2021
“Video stores like mine have been crushed and forgotten about for the last ten years!” Having been born in the year 1995, I am a part of a group of…
Buddy Films

I Wanna Be Me

1 Jul 202130 Aug 2021
Watching On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019) directed by Kenji Iwaisawa is in many ways like watching a slice of the male teenage experience. It is part of the “slice of life”…
Underdogs

Mockumentary in the Hands of Peter Watkins

1 May 20217 Feb 2022
Filmmaker and media theorist Peter Watkins was no stranger to political filmmaking and reconstructing actual events in a faux-documentary style by the time he made Punishment Park in 1971. His…
New Beginnings

Man vs Wild

1 Mar 202130 Aug 2021
Written under the context of Canadian Cinema Seminar at Concordia University. When you think about Vancouver, you are most likely thinking of people living amongst beautiful scenery in harmony with…

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