The Amina Profile

Outfest 15 – A GAY GIRL IN DAMASCUS: THE AMINA PROFILE

Last Festival Screening July 17, 2015 @ 5:00 PM (Director’s Guild of America) DGA 2 A typical online flirtation between two strangers developed into shocking international intrigue. Sophie Deraspe’s gripping Sundance hit follows the virtual romance between Sandra, a journalist from Montreal, and a Syrian girl named Amina whose blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” […]

NFB has 8 Films Selected to Screen at 2015 Hot Docs

NFB has 8 Films Selected to Screen at 2015 Hot Docs

Mysteries and disappearances stranger than anything in a detective novel. Visionary one-of-a-kind figures in Canadian arts and politics. Feature documentaries and short works, and a live preview of the final installment in a legendary six-year digital project. It’s all part of a rich National Film Board of Canada (NFB) presence at the Hot Docs Canadian […]

World Premiere of THE ANIMA PROJECT @ the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Premiere: Saturday, Jan 24th, 9pm @ TEMPLE THEATRE What began as a love story between two women turned into an international socio-political thriller―spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood in the Internet age. Now, the story behind this incredible true-life drama is the subject of a new feature documentary. The […]