Congrats go out once again to acclaimed Quebecois filmmaker Patricia Chica, whose horror comedy short A Tricky Treat has just won four awards at the Macabre Faire Film Festival showcase in New York. Patricia and her team go
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VIFF, Day 1: Wine, Speeches, and Brooklyn
No better way to start off VIFF than to screen a movie and have a little room to network in before the show. Since I arrived pretty early, I had some time to weave my
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TIFF Sees Sales, Sets Record
The TIFF award recipients weren’t the only winners at the Festival this year — it’s also reporting record highs for industry attendance and also strong film sales. As TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey put it
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Beyond the Red Carpet at TIFF and More
“Six years later, [Naomi] Klein is set to nail another manifesto to TIFF’s door,” writes The National Post’s Joseph Brean — this one being the Leap Manifesto, presented today and calling for change across a
Continue ReadingTIFF Films and a Bilingual Job Opening
Bilingue? MFM says St. Nickel is looking for a fully bilingual Production Secretary — who also has to be very organized. Details here. CTV has some background (from CP) on Adam Garnet Jones’ Fire Song,
Continue ReadingFrom TO to Telluride, to the Arctic, to Regina
Variety has plenty of TIFF coverage, from a U.S. perspective of course, starting with Awards Editor Tim Gray’s reflection that the first edition of the Festival, back in 1976, was the scene of a major
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