TORONTO – imagineNATIVE Features six NFB Short Films. Indigenous roots, identity and representation are at the heart of six National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short films―directed by a mix of new filmmakers and some of Canada’s most acclaimed artists―screening at the 16th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto from October 14 […]
Inspired by Rawi Hage’s Award-Winning novel, COCKROACH A visceral portrayal of an Iranian man’s struggle to fit into Western culture, The Underground is a new short film by critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer, which is set to have its World Premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Araz, an Iranian refugee in Canada, […]
from gat Following a fall festival tour for her latest feature film, The Animal Project, Ingrid Veninger returned to Toronto with a desire to see more fiction features written and directed by Canadian women. On November 18th, she proposed the idea of a screenwriting lab on her Facebook page, and received 20 submissions. “I want […]
