Productivity in the industry. Today TIFF has announced its partnership with Instagram. Film Competition TIFFxInstagram invites international filmmakers both amateur and experienced to submit 60 second movies via Instagram, #TIFFxInstagram, best to check stats on
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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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The Dishwasher (Review)
With Telus Storyhive coming around again, it seems only necessary that I review a submission that has come out recently. The short is none other than The Dishwasher, by Matt David Johnson. Now I know
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Female Voices in the News
Catherine Hardwicke, “one of the most powerful female voices in Hollywood”, as TIFF’s Theresa Scandiffio notes, will take part in a special In Conversation With . . . event at TIFF Bell Lightbox on July
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Being Canadian (Review)
At one point Robert Cohen, the writer-director of Being Canadian, parks outside his old high school. He wants to prove wrong the teacher who told him he’d never amount to anything. He yells (from inside
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The List (Review)
What is it with all these full lengths about legal matters and civil authorities being really bad movies? Or, to put it lightly, having mediocre content. I kind of have to wonder if this is
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