“My Name is Pochsy: An Industrial Film” wins 5 Prizes in Canada and the U.S.

• Boston Underground Film Festival: Audience Choice Award - Best Short
• Rutger's University US Super 8 and Digital Video Film Festival - Best Experimental Film (tie)
• Female Eye Film Festival In Toronto - Best Director Debut
• Dawson City International Short Film Festival: Lodestar Award for Best Film
• Edmonton International Film Festival: Kodak Canada Prize - Best Canadian Short

For upcoming festivals and more on My Name is Pochsy see here

“Horribly Beautiful World” to shoot this summer

Pochsy Productions is currently in pre-production to shoot more short films featuring doomed mercury plant worker, Pochsy. Companion pieces to “My Name is Pochsy,” these black little numbers will operate independently, and as a designer set entitled “Horribly Beautiful World.”

Karen co-stars in Spring Street Films' Rock Sparkle

Karen has recently finished shooting with Calgary director Sandi Somers and singer/songwriter Kris Demeanor and his Crack Band. A ficto-documentary about poverty, poetry and the Canadian Dream. Karen plays groupie Glory Dey.

Alberta Foundation for the Arts Funds "Crazy Like a Girl"

Pochsy Productions has won funding for the first stage of development of "Crazy Like a Girl," Hines's trans-genre chick lit horror flick. "Crazy Like a Girl" is a psycho-dramedy in three shades of black.

Ongoing:

Karen has recently returned from the Banff World Television Festival where she was the WIDC Banff Fellow. She is currently working on two television projects, 'Oil Wife' and 'Haunted Condo.' Hines is also working on her stageplay 'The Mood Ring' which is slated for production in 2009.