If you’ve ever wanted to be on Big Brother Canada, now’s your chance to try for it. Shaw Media has just announced open casting calls in Vancouver (September 19), Calgary (September 26), Edmonton (September 26), Winnipeg (October 3), Toronto (October 24), Montréal (September 19), Halifax (September 26), and St. John’s (October 3). You can also apply online up to October 19th.
The NFB is sending seven films to TIFF: three feature films and four shorts. In the feature category, Winnipeg’s Guy Maddin is back with The Forbidden Room. This “epic phantasmagoria” begins with a lost woodsman, lately escaped from a clan of cave dwellers, wandering into a doomed submarine. The shorts include documentary Rock the Box, written and directed by Katherine Monk, a film critic and writer based in Vancouver. DJ Rhiannon Rozier says she ran into the glass ceiling, so she did something she never thought she would do: she posed for Playboy.
Bell Media’s pay television network The Movie Network has pre-bought 11 of the Canadian films appearing at TIFF, and supported four others through The Harold Greenberg Fund/Fonds Harold Greenberg. Pre-buys include Into The Forest by Patricia Rozema, Stephen Dunn’s feature film debut Closet Monster, along with the short film Portal To Hell!!!, from Vivieno Caldinelli.
