First Screening – Saturday, November 14th – 4pm @ TIFF For all the cinematic and televisual treatments of alcoholism that have come before, rarely has the affliction been treated with such harrowing frankness and sheer expressive brilliance as on display Wojtek Smarzowski’s The Mighty Angel. Based on Jerzy Pilch’s celebrated novel, the movie tells the […]
by su-anne lieu for FILMbutton Valerie Weiss’ film A Light Beneath Their Feet focuses on the relationships between a bipolar mother and her daughter. Taryn Manning plays the bipolar mother, Gloria, who keeps her daughter very close to help her cope with her illness. Madison Davenport plays the loving daughter ,Beth, struggling with a decision […]
First Screening – Tuesday, November 10 – 6:30pm @ TIFF Bell Lightbox When the filmmaker Michel Negroponte (Jupiter’s Wife) received an e-mail from a woman who thought she might be a promising subject for a documentary, a process of collaboration began that would result in one of the most revealing self-portraits of living with mental […]
First Screening – Tuesday, November 10th – 9pm @ TIFF As it does for most people, Sarah’s day begins with the sound of the bedside alarm. But that’s where the similarity ends. For Sarah (Libby Munro), the beginning of the day marks the start of another ordeal, wherein no task is easy, time trickles by […]
Opening Night Screening – Friday, November 6th – 7:45pm @ Bloor Hot Docs Cinema When he was on his game as a professional hockey player, Sheldon Kennedy was in complete control: assured, aggressive, strategic and always in motion. Off the ice, however, Kennedy was living a secret nightmare. A victim of serial sexual abuse perpetrated […]
Rendezvous With Madness And The Department Of Psychiatry At University Of Toronto Co-Present A Special Screening: Signe Bauman’s ROCKS IN MY POCKETS Tickets on Sale Screening – Monday October 5, 2015 – 7 p.m. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King St. West Mindfest 2015 Film Screening @ Mental Illness Awareness Week Rendezvous with Madness […]
This interview with writer/director Low Howe took place during the 2014 Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival in Toronto, ON. The film will be released in the US by Oscilloscope Labratories in the the spring of 2015.
