The Highland Gardens Hotel in Hollywood is best known for some of it's previous tenants and a sorry event in room 105. Now though, Steve Markle* has delivered a movie of illuminating charm and -- dare I say -- pathos that documents the Hotel's continuing role in the lives of Hollywood soldiers, both young and old.

The film has been out for about a year now and has previously been screened in Canada on Bravo and StarTV. It was on again recently and it is probably because the film has received at least two Gemini nominations.

Finally, a Canadian movie that doesn't have "bureaucrat" written all over it. If Markle does not win an award it will probably be because he hasn't been eating enough rubber shrimp with cinema wannabe civil servants at government sponsored posterior kiss-a-thons.

If you watch one Canadian film this year -- make sure it's not the one by that director -- it should be Camp Hollywood. This movie puts entertainment TV and reality shows in their place.

* Markle went $85,000 into debt making the picture, which probably explains the lack of a web presence and no web site for the film.