Ninth Floor, directed by Mina Shum and produced by the NFB, playing at TIFF next month, is the true story of a student protest with destructive results. Windsor Square’s Robert K. Stephen tells how Caribbean
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Samsung Canada Presents New Products at TIFF
(Via CNW) Samsung Electronics Canada has recently released two new powerful devices and is now celebrating their debut by teaming up with Toronto International Film Festival to showcase them throughout the event. The new products are
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Mean Dreams (Needs Actors), Best of 7, The Witch
There’s an open casting call in Sault Ste. Marie on the 25th, MFM has announced. This one is for Mean Dreams, a coming of age crime thriller about two teens and a dog on the
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Hurt on Platform, VQFF, Access Unlimited, Global Fall Lineup
Steve Fonyo is the subject and star of Alan Zweig’s doc Hurt, screening in the Platform program at TIFF this year. Fonyo’s story is well known; after raising millions for cancer research with a cross-Canada
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Montréal WFF, Mask In 3-D, Music in AV, Mashup in Mississauga
The Montréal World Film Festival (WFF) has announced the lineup for its World Competition and First Feature Competition, and the names of jury members for both. Canada is represented by My Enemies by Stéphane Géhami
Continue ReadingAtlantic Film Festival, Cocksure Lads, Guantanamo’s Child, Reel Paddling Film Festival
At this year’s Atlantic Film Festival, the Atlantic Canadian program will include a look at “race relations in north-end Halifax”, “a First Nations LGBT thriller shot in the Annapolis Valley”, and a “dark home invasion
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