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TIFF Sees Sales, Sets Record

September 21, 2015September 21, 2015FestivalsAndrew Cividino, canadian independent film, festivals, Sleeping Giant, TIFF

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

From TO to Telluride, to the Arctic, to Regina

September 11, 2015September 11, 2015Today's Top StoriesAndrew Cividino, Cory Trepanier, festivals, Ryan Bray, Sleeping Giant, Telluride Film Festival, The Sabbatical, TIFF

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

Shoegate and Five Other Film World Stories

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015Today's Top StoriesAndrew Cividino, Canada International Film Festival, Classroom Energy Diet Challenge, Emergence, Karen Tusa, Karen Tusa Tuesday, Much Music Video Awards, MuchFACT, Royal Reel Award, Shoegate at Cannes, Sleeping Giant, Under Our Skin, Winnipeg

On Shoegate at Cannes (read about it, plus how it’s worse than it sounded at first, at The National Post), we’re just going to quote Emily Blunt: “Everyone should wear flats, to be honest, at

Dancing Arabs, Singing Sweethearts, Filmmaking Canadians

May 15, 2015May 15, 2015Today's Top StoriesAndrew Cividino, Ben's at Home, Big Muddy, Cannes, Dancing Arabs, Eran Riklis, Kathleen Jayme, Paradise Island, Patrice Messina's Sweethearts, Sleeping Giant

“Dancing Arabs is an unfortunate title,” says Chris Knight in The National Post, in contrast to the film’s director, Eran Riklis, who as we noted yesterday thinks it’s great. Knight goes on to say “no

More CanCon at Cannes

May 4, 2015May 4, 2015FestivalsBleu tonnerre, Canadian talent to watch, Cannes, festivals, Sleeping Giant, Telefilm Canada

(Via CNW) Telefilm Canada has published a list of Canadian talent to watch, representing the next wave of Canadian filmmaking, at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival (May 13 to 24, 2015). And the ones to watch

From Cannes to Waterloo (ON): 4 Canadian Film Stories

April 21, 2015April 21, 2015Today's Top StoriesAndrew Cividino, Canada’s Top Ten Festival, Cannes, IF4, International Fly Fishing Film Festival, niche film festival, Northwest Film Fest, Nova Scotia's tax credit cuts, Sleeping Giant, TIFF

The Cannes Film Festival has announced more selections — this time, for the jury, which will include Canada’s own Xavier Dolan and “honourary Torontonian” Guillermo del Toro, reports The Kingston Whig-Standard. Dolan’s film Mommy, of