The historical drama Lincoln leads this year’s Oscar race with 12 nominations, closely followed by Life of Pi with 11. Both films are competing for best picture along with Beasts of the Southern Wild Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Les Misérables Amour Django Unchained Argo Lincoln’s director Steven Spielberg and actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally […]
by Allan Tong In 15 minutes, Chris Doyle answers five questions with 20 answers. He loves to talk and he loves films. In fact, Doyle will be talking about one in particular at The TIFF Lightbox on Saturday, April 23 in honour of the 1994 landmark, Chungking Express, that he photographed for the renown director […]
Hot Docs is expanding to a second cinema. One of the largest documentary festivals in the world, Hot Docs re-opened the 727-seat Bloor Cinema last year and will be adding a second screen in the same building, an old vaudeville theatre. Hot Docs will renovate the five-storey “fly tower” located behind its main screen into […]
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has named Kim Nguyen’s Rebelle the best Canadian film of the year while Toronto critics chose Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell. Inexplicably, Toronto did not even nominate Rebelle. About a young African girl’s harrowing journey as a child soldier, Rebelle also picked up awards for Rachel Mwanza as best actress […]
The Prix Ars Electronica 2013 – International Competition for CyberArts is open for entries! From its very inception in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica is an open platform for various disciplines at the intersection of art, technology, science and society. The event calls for entries in seven categories, including a youth competition. Online Submission: http://prixars.aec.at Deadline: […]
The National Society of Film Critics, made of 60 of the country’s most prominent writers on film, today voted Michael Haneke’s Amour the best film of 2012. A full list of the other awards follows, with the winner designated by an asterisk and the first and second runners up listed with the number of votes […]
TIFF’s 12th annual Canada’s Top Ten continues with actors Anita Majumdar and Zaib Shaikh will introduce Midnight’s Children and answer audience questions onThursday, January 10 at 6:30 p.m. and Friday, January 11 at 3:30 p.m. Salman Rushdie adapted his novel into a screenplay with director Deepa Mehta. Midnight’s Children premiered at TIFF 2012. Canada’s Top […]
Canadian icon, Gordon Pinsent, will discuss his career at TIFF on Monday, January 14 at 7 p.m as part of its In Conversation series. One of Canada’s most beloved actors, Gordon Pinsent began his career on the stage before starring in such popular Canadian TV series as The Forest Rangers and Quentin Durgens, M.P. and racking up […]
Leading crowdfunding site Kickstarter has raised over $100 million to support indie films since it launched in spring 2009. April 28, 2009 — January 1, 2013: Total pledged: $102.7 million Total collected: $85.7 million Total backers: 891,979 Funded projects: 8,567 In the past three years, nearly 900,000 people have pledged their support to an independent […]
The Producers Guild of America has announced the 10 films nominated for the Darryl F. Zanuck producer of the year award for U.S. theatrical motion pictures: Argo (Warner Bros.) Producers: Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Producers: Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn Django Unchained (The Weinstein […]
