A Canadian comedic drama featuring Montreal’s Jay Baruchel has been chosen to kick off the alternative Slamdance Film Festival.

“Real Time,” written and directed by Canadian Film Centre graduate Randall Cole, stars Baruchel (“Undeclared,” “Knocked Up”) as a compulsive gambler given one hour to live. Veteran actor Randy Quaid plays the hit man who gives him the temporary reprieve.

The 14th annual Slamdance Fest features 29 movies and will be held Jan. 17 to 25, running concurrent with the Sundance Film Festival. Like Sundance, Slamdance will take place in Park City, Utah.

Only first-time directors can submit feature films, which must have budgets under $1 million to be eligible.

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Long time no see, huh? Lol, I know, I know, but I did get most of Jay’s section up and I’ve now moved to a server where it’ll be actually possible to update the site. I’m currently working on the gallery, and while this place isn’t technically open it should at least be viewable soon. The coding has also been updated. Happy Holidays!

No real content up yet, but I expect to have at least the Jay section up and running in the next few days, but don’t quote me on that, lol.

Granted, it’s not really a grand opening, but the site does have a first page and the gallery’s been started, so yay me, lol. Gallery updates below: