AWARDS
- CSA Award (Canadian Screen Award) Best Director of a Comedy Series for Schitt's Creek
- Leo Award Best Feature Film for Everything's Gone Green
- Best Director at Niagara Film Festival for Everything's Gone Green
- CityTV Feature Film Award at Vancouver and Edmonton International Film Festivals for Everything's Gone Green
- Everything's Gone Green invited to TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival), SXSW (Austin), Calgary International Film Festival, Atlantic Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival and the Pusan International Film Festival (Korea)
- Best Film at Austin Fantastic Fest for The Dark Hours
- Best Film at Puchon International Film Festival (Korea) for The Dark Hours
- Best Film at the New York City Horror Film Festival for The Dark Hours
- Best Film at the Eerie Horror Film Festival for The Dark Hours
- Jury Award at the Sitges-Catelonian International Film Festival for The Dark Hours
- Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Dead by Dawn Film Festival (Scotland) for The Dark Hours
- Best Horror Feature and Best Director at the Phoenix International Horror & Sci-Fi Festival for The Dark Hours
- The Dark Hours invited to the Chicago International Film Festival, Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival (Montreal), Macabro Film Festival (Mexico City), German Fantasy Film Festival, Malaga Film Festival (Spain) and the Cardiff Film Festival
REVIEWS
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EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN
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**** (four stars)
- TIME OUT NY “Charming.” -THE VILLAGE VOICE “A romantic comedy/social satire that manages to be hip, charming, funny and dressed to kill. Pluses are the inventive visuals and lively pace of Paul Fox’s direction as well as the hard-to-resist appeal of the movie’s very attractive leads." -Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Fox has talent and a track record of original, excellent filmmaking." - Chris Anderson, THE LONG TAIL - WIRED “Paul Fox's direction has a deft ease and comic apprehension which serves the material beautifully, as well as the cast.” -FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL “[Actors] Costanzo and Song make a sweet screen couple, although their charm is dwarfed by that of Vancouver itself, which is photographed as if it were New York in Woody Allen's Manhattan.” –THE NEW YORK TIMES |
“Starring an excellent Paulo Costanzo (late of "Joey") as a twentysomething uberslacker… [Everything's Gone Green] is seasoned with fine perfs by JR Bourne as a charismatic, creepy hustler and Steph Song as Costanzo's sexy potential love interest.”
-VARIETY
"Director Paul Fox does a nice job of infusing novelist-turned-screenwriter Douglas Coupland’s script with appropriate bursts of style, while the film’s various performances are engaging and charismatic (Costanzo is just about perfect in the central role).”
- REEL FILM REVIEWS
“Director Paul Fox creates a bright, fast-paced film that weirdly and completely matches the mood and themes of Coupland’s many novels. Everything’s Gone Green is layered with odd ideas, cultural references, snappy dialogue, dreamy visuals and charming characters, all of which add up to a refreshingly unironic look at art, love, life and the desire to just be."
-Glenn Gaslin, E! REVIEWS
“ Perfect for first-date couples.”
- SALON.COM
-VARIETY
"Director Paul Fox does a nice job of infusing novelist-turned-screenwriter Douglas Coupland’s script with appropriate bursts of style, while the film’s various performances are engaging and charismatic (Costanzo is just about perfect in the central role).”
- REEL FILM REVIEWS
“Director Paul Fox creates a bright, fast-paced film that weirdly and completely matches the mood and themes of Coupland’s many novels. Everything’s Gone Green is layered with odd ideas, cultural references, snappy dialogue, dreamy visuals and charming characters, all of which add up to a refreshingly unironic look at art, love, life and the desire to just be."
-Glenn Gaslin, E! REVIEWS
“ Perfect for first-date couples.”
- SALON.COM
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"The Dark Hours provides evidence of talent everywhere." (*** ½ out of four stars).
- Stephen Cole THE GLOBE AND MAIL (TORONTO) “Perfect. Just perfect. A cool, gritty psychodrama. Consistently full of surprises and turns, this is a taut, beautifully realized thriller that goes to the places you least expect. Highly Recommended.” -AIN’T IT COOL NEWS “You know you’re in the grip of a good filmmaker and you’d best sit back and see where he’s going to drag you before he’s done.” -Roy Frumkes, FILMS IN REVIEW “Director Paul Fox turns in a creepy and impressive thriller which grabs you from the start and keeps its energy level going until the finale (**** out of five stars)." -Christopher Null, FILMCRITIC.COM “What a dynamite, no-holds-barred, two-fisted story it is. Simply the best damn thriller of the year.” -BROOKLYN SKYLINE “Mean, smart, and relentless.” -J.R. Jones, CHICAGO READER |
THE DARK HOURS
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“Fox never fails to crank up the feeling of dread just as the viewer grasps a thread of hope."
-Katherine Monk, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE
“The Dark Hours is one of those rare gems… a clever film that relies on nuance and intelligence to make you squirm.”
-FILM THREAT
“The overall impact is greatly enhanced by (Kate) Greenhouse's complex performance, Fox's atmospheric direction and the truly eerie musical score by E.C. Woodley.”
-Frank Scheck, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“With a sure hand for camera and sound tricks that frequently suggest scarier stuff happening just out of view… The movie's final third takes a turn to the ambiguous, altered-perception terrain of mid-1970s Roman Polanski.” -Glen Schaefer, THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE
“It's not often that a fine bit of horror filmmaking sneaks under the radar and emerges to knock you for a loop. The Dark Hours represents one of those occasions; a slick, small-scale affair that just reeks of "someone-knows-their-crap" from top to bottom. The Dark Hours is an exceedingly well done, tight little dose of suspense-horror.”
-David Johnson, DVD VERDICT
“Paul Fox is a very smart filmmaker. Just when you think you have his next move figured out he betrays you, shattering the comfort zone with a revelation that isn’t so much about who done it but why and why it matters…What Fox does with one simple pan across the room in a key moment will leave you breathless. My guess is you'll be talking about this film far longer than many of its brethren.”
-TWITCHFILM
“Just so gosh-darned nasty I couldn’t help but be won over.”
-Jim Knipfel, NY PRESS
-Katherine Monk, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE
“The Dark Hours is one of those rare gems… a clever film that relies on nuance and intelligence to make you squirm.”
-FILM THREAT
“The overall impact is greatly enhanced by (Kate) Greenhouse's complex performance, Fox's atmospheric direction and the truly eerie musical score by E.C. Woodley.”
-Frank Scheck, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“With a sure hand for camera and sound tricks that frequently suggest scarier stuff happening just out of view… The movie's final third takes a turn to the ambiguous, altered-perception terrain of mid-1970s Roman Polanski.” -Glen Schaefer, THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE
“It's not often that a fine bit of horror filmmaking sneaks under the radar and emerges to knock you for a loop. The Dark Hours represents one of those occasions; a slick, small-scale affair that just reeks of "someone-knows-their-crap" from top to bottom. The Dark Hours is an exceedingly well done, tight little dose of suspense-horror.”
-David Johnson, DVD VERDICT
“Paul Fox is a very smart filmmaker. Just when you think you have his next move figured out he betrays you, shattering the comfort zone with a revelation that isn’t so much about who done it but why and why it matters…What Fox does with one simple pan across the room in a key moment will leave you breathless. My guess is you'll be talking about this film far longer than many of its brethren.”
-TWITCHFILM
“Just so gosh-darned nasty I couldn’t help but be won over.”
-Jim Knipfel, NY PRESS
