With Hurt, Alan Zweig’s doc on Steve Fonyo, set to play at VIFF on Wednesday, The Vancouver Province’s Glen Schaefer talks to the film’s subject at his “temporary home” in Metro Vancouver. Sadly, the movie
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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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The Bar (Review)
Gee, and I thought the folks at Traveling had a weird sense of humour. But this one is something else. The Bar takes place, of course, at a bar. A film noir comedy, they call
Continue ReadingVIFF Opening, TIFF Board Changes, Social Impact Award, SMPIA Party
The Vancouver International Film Festival kicks off tonight with the showing of Brooklyn, an international co-production (Canada, Ireland, UK) telling the story of a young immigrant woman in 1950’s New York — our Nick will
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AFF Awards, The Magicians, and Savvy Girls
Belated congratulations to the winners of the 35th Atlantic Film Festival awards, who were announced on Sunday. Best Atlantic Short went to Ashley McKenzie’s 4 Quarters while Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island, by
Continue ReadingBeyond 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
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