Congratulations to the 2015 TIFF award winners; the Festival has the whole story here, and BlogTO’s Alexander Huls has a list version here. Andrew Cividino has triumphed once again with Sleeping Giant as Best Canadian
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Dunn Becomes First Len Blum Resident
(Via press.tiff.net) Stephen Dunn has been announced as the official Inaugural Len Blum Resident at TIFF. A new program that starts this year, TIFF introduced this residency as a tribute to Len Blum, who is
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Filmmakers Find Their Chances at TIFF
Fire Song, Adam Garnet Jones’ film set in an aboriginal community, has drawn attention at TIFF and gets a closer look from Victoria Goldberg at Excalibur. Also at TIFF is the premiere (today) of New
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Telefilm and UniFrance Unite to Take on the U.S. Market
(Via CNW) Telefilm Canada and UniFrance films have decided they’re natural partners and announced (at TIFF) that they’re launching “a partnership focused on the distribution and promotion of independent films from their respective countries.” (UniFrance
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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,
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