SELECTED PRESS “Huculiak is hurling a brick for Canadian newcomers with his Norwegian-language drama about impulsive teen angst that is filled with creative risk.” “Ash once again displays the filmmaking prowess of Huculiak and his team.” “Set against raging wildfires, the film has a boldly cinematic scale, a searing performance by Tim Guinee, and a grandiose score by Cayne McKenzie, but undoubtedly it also asks a great deal of its audience.” “Ash once again distinguishes Huculiak as a director with a shrewd ability for harnessing the power of the natural landscape...To shoot anything in this disaster zone is a new kind of crazy. But one can’t help but be awed by the rewards this ballsy filmmaking yields. Ash is incendiary poetry.” “Vancouver-based director Andrew Huculiak, whose stunning debut feature Violent garnered critical acclaim...deserve[s] commendation for thoughtful and deeply considered artistic steering through challenges of moral ambiguity and discomfort.” "A sincere expression of a generous curiosity about some of life’s bigger questions, and an attempt to find, in the act of leave-taking, some wisdom and a kind of grace.” “Violent is cinema at its most lyrical, most heartbreaking, and most personal. There has never been a film like it; there may never be another one.” THE QUIET EARTH“Violent is brilliant...rather than powering through by force, Huculiak's feature film debut purposefully strides across the room and quietly commands everyone's attention. It's an impossible film to ignore or forget.”