Professor at Sheridan College, Associate Programmer of Hot Docs and Programmer of SYFF (the Syrian Film Festival of Toronto), Toronto-based filmmaker’s Aisha Jamal’s short films have been screened in festivals worldwide. With a focus on
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Sticks and Stones (Review)
Far away in San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Siciliambiente, an annual film festival focusing on environmental issues and social change welcomes documentaries, short films and animation from around the world. As the festival’s 2016 edition
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News from Newfoundland: Flankers & Riverhead
About a year ago, Newfoundland director Justin Oakey presented his 15-minute film Flankers and immediately charmed the festival circuit audience with a rough, hard-hearted story of feuding fishermen in the rural islands of the North.
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Hippypocalypse & the Midnight Grind Series
1960s exploitation films have been a campy little treasure of underground cinema — and now young Toronto-based filmmakers are bringing them back in all their gore and glory. PM Pictures is Director Carlo Schefter, Producer
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Rencontre (Review)
Rencontre is a simple, bittersweet haiku about unexpected encounters and their equally unexpected brevity, directed by Toronto-based director Brennan Martin. The short film won the awards for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Film at
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The Flying Man: Canadian Internet Movie on the Road to the Big Screen
As far as internet sensations go, The Flying Man hit the jackpot. A short film uploaded three years ago to the video platform YouTube, Canadian-Brazilian sfx artist Marcus Alqueres’s thriller-sci-fi caught the attention of major
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