The Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF) is celebrating its 40th anniversary by adding $1 million (US) to its cash awards for the films competing. “No other festival in the world rewards its best films in
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New Albums, New Studios, and More News
(Via Wireservice.ca) Alison Crowe and Band (the Band being Céline Greb, Sarah White, and Dave Baird) have released their debut, double-album (one live + one studio set), Introducing / Heirs + Grievances, plus a web-based
Continue ReadingMore on TIFF’s Summer
TIFF’s summer lineup features creative works from all over — but many of them are homegrown. Here’s just a sampling. The Canadian Open Vault program, a series of free screenings of Canadian classics, opens on
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TIFF has a full summer planned for movie lovers in TO, including retrospectives on major filmmakers like Hitchcock and Truffaut, screenings of cult classics, the first summer edition of the TIFF Next Wave 24-Hour Film
Continue ReadingLooking Back at DOXA 2016 (with Video)
It was a good year for Vancouver’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival, which wrapped up on Saturday. How good was it? It was so good that: Most film screenings at the Festival sold out in advance.
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