I remember sitting at the park watching my young kids on the swings when I first heard the word COVID-19. What was it and why was everyone everywhere talking about it? Within weeks the Ontario government, led
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The Second Most Important Event in Rock History
In 1969, there were three music festivals that changed the trajectory of the world’s music scene. On September 13, one month after Woodstock, a couple of months before Altamont “The Toronto Rock ’n’ Revival” concert brought together
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11. BLINDNESS (special mention) Director, Don McKellar A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant “white blindness“. Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created
Continue ReadingTHE GREATEST MOVIES & TV SHOWS NEVER MADE
With the infinite number of platforms we have access to: streaming, pay tv, movies in cinemas, video on demand, it’s hard to comprehend, but not every whim of an idea is turned into a film
Continue ReadingSCOOPING UP ROSIE
We’ve seen this type of story before. Whether it was from the funny pages in the 1930’s newspapers with the story of little Orphan Annie or a more modernized take on the subject with the
Continue ReadingTHE BIRTH OF THE LEVI’S TORONTO INTERNATIONAL TEEN MOVIE FESTIVAL
FINANCING AN INDIE FILM, THE DEATH OF THE CANADIAN PRODUCER It was the year 2000 and my associate Jonathan and I were trying to cast our production company’s (Hiltz Squared Media) latest projects for
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