The Montréal World Film Festival (WFF) has announced the lineup for its World Competition and First Feature Competition, and the names of jury members for both. Canada is represented by My Enemies by Stéphane Géhami (in the World Competition). The eighth edition of the festival runs August 27th to September 7th — full details are on the festival site.
The Mask (Eyes of Hell), Canada’s first feature-length horror movie and first feature-length 3-D film, has been restored by TIFF and the 3-D Film Archive and will screen at the TIFF Cinematheque programme, the festival announced today. They say the 1961 Julian Roffman film about a haunted mask is “deliciously creepy.”
Congratulations to the winners of the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-visual Composers, which honour (and reward) Canadian composers under 30 for their works created exclusively for film, TV, and Internet. Broadcaster has the full story.
Speaking of music, film, and how they go together, the Bollywood Monster Mashup in Mississauga drew a record crowd this year, The Can-India News reports. The Mashup, the largest South Asian festival in Canada, celebrates “Bollywood music and dance in fusion with various genres from around the world.”
