22 Canadian Premieres at Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival

22 Canadian Premieres at Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival

This 20th year Festival will be a blockbuster year, with more premieres and guests than ever before. Toronto-based and internationally known Inside Out will have a World Premiere to offer up with La Dany by Toronto brother and sister directors Jim and Julie Giles. Two International Premieres, Prima Donna: The Story of Rufus Wainwright’s Debut […]

Hot Docs Announces Audience Award and breaks Attendence Record

Hot Docs Announces Audience Award and breaks Attendence Record

HOT DOCS BREAKS ATTENDANCE RECORDS WITH AUDIENCES OF 136,000 AT 2010 FESTIVAL THUNDER SOUL WINS AUDIENCE AWARD; AUDIENCE TOP TEN ANNOUNCED AUTUMN GOLD WINS INAUGURAL FILMMAKERS AWARD Toronto, May 10 2010 – Hot Docs has wrapped its most successful festival to date with audience numbers reaching an estimated 136,000. The 11-day event, April 29 to […]

A Drummer’s Dream screens at Hot Docs

<em>A Drummer’s Dream</em> screens at Hot Docs

When some of the world’s top drummers held a camp on a tiny Ontario farm, Halifax filmmaker John Walker followed. The result is A Drummer’s Dream By ANDREA NEMETZ Entertainment Reporter IN 1969, John Walker was offered a choice between two roads. Now the award-winning documentary filmmaker is exploring the path not taken. Then a […]

Tribeca Film Festival Wrap

Tribeca Film Festival Wrap

New York, NY [May 4, 2010]– The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by Founding Sponsor American Express, today announced a total attendance of over 410,000 at screenings, panels and free community events, including the Drive-In and Street Fair. Theater attendance for the […]

Jerry McIntosh joins Leone Stars

Jerry McIntosh joins <em>Leone Stars</em>

Jerry McIntosh joins “Leone Stars” documentary as executive producer Veteran documentary producer and director, Jerry McIntosh, has joined the production team at the film, Leone Stars. About the struggles and triumphs of an amputee soccer team in post-war Sierra Leone, Leone Stars will be directed by Allan Tong and Ngardy Conteh. The producer is Walter […]