A well done movie released in 2020
Dave Not Coming Back
Dave Not Coming Back received the Audience Award at both Austin Film Festival and Hamilton Film Festival 2020. The film premiered on August 17, 2020 as part of the Adventure Film Series, a special summer edition of the Whistler Film Festival. It subsequently premiered commercially in Montreal, Quebec, on September 11, and was screened later the same month at the Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op in Sudbury, Ontario, before being released commercially to streaming platforms in October 2020.
It was released theatrically in the fall of 2020, despite a semi-lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic. It was released online in the United States on November 10, 2020 and in Canada on December 15, 2020.
Malak received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. The film has an 8.5 score on IMDb and a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.