Screening – Friday, February 12 @ 5pm Team captain Bornor Kargbo and midfielder Census Jalloh are amputees who play organized soccer in Sierra Leone to cope with the horrors of war they suffered a decade ago. As they dream of playing internationally, they wrestle with nightmares that haunt their daily lives and threaten the very […]
Festival Screening – ADDED Tuesday, Feb 9 @ 10:20pm Thursday, Feb 4 @ 7pm Friday, Feb 5 @ 4pm Standing on Water is a story of overcoming your fears and following your passion. It’s the journey of how Casper Steinfath despite his fear of water became one of the best stand up paddle surfers in […]
The Toronto Black Film Festival is dedicated to giving unique voices in cinema the opportunity to present audiences with new ways of looking at the world. A dynamic, refreshing and audacious Festival whose ambition is to encourage the development of the independent film industry and to promote more films on the reality of Black people […]
JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE AT THE BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA FEBRUARY 5-15 A TRIBUTE TO A ROCK AND ROLL ICON TORONTO – The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema is pleased to host a limited theatrical engagement of JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE An official selection at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE screens […]
TORONTO – Award-winning documentary, The Flying Stars, returns for its hometown premiere at the fourth Toronto Black Film Festival (TBFF) on Friday, Feb. 12 at 5:00 pm at the Carlton Cinema. Toronto filmmakers Ngardy Conteh George and Allan Tong will introduce the film.The Flying Stars recently was named best documentary at Atlanta’s BronzeLens Film Festival. […]
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Screening Times: Dec 26th @ 8:45pm, Jan 1st @ 2:00pm, Jan 14th @ 8:15pm “I never thought about being a poet. I always wrote poetry. What did I have to think about? You don’t decide things like that. You do it.” – Al Purdy Toronto can’t get enough of Al Purdy. […]
What is Film Independent’s Documentary Lab? Held in Los Angeles in April, the Film Independent Documentary Lab is an intensive five-week program designed to help filmmakers who are currently in post-production on their feature-length documentary films. Through a series of meetings and workshops, the Documentary Lab provides creative feedback and story notes to participating filmmakers, […]
“Highly entertaining.” – Mike Hale, THE NEW YORK TIMES “Delightful.” – Scott Foundas, VARIETY Synopsis The New Yorker is the undisputed standard bearer of the single panel cartoon. Whether they leave us amused, inspired, or even a little baffled, the iconic cartoons have become an instantly recognizable cultural touchstone over the past 90 years. Directed […]
“If this is to be the template for future stadium extravaganzas, the bar undoubtedly has been set” – The Hollywood Reporter “Visually magnificent” – Indiewire Universal City, CA – Roger Waters, the creative genius behind musical pioneers Pink Floyd, in association with UPHE Content Group, announces that the groundbreaking masterpiece ROGER WATERS THE WALL is […]
Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 28 @ 4:45pm Sunday, Nov 29 @ 6:30pm 75 years after iconic Soviet writer Isaac Babel’s wrongful execution, his grandson comes closer to the elusive truths of his heritage. In Finding Babel, Andrei Malaev-Babel confronts lingering traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfather’s subversive writing and in the […]
