from TIFF Ten Features, Ten Shorts, Ten Years Of Celebrating Canadian Film Toronto – TIFF revealed the top 10 best features and top 10 best short films of 2010 this evening at the 10th annual Canada’s Top Ten industry event, hosted by Peter Keleghan and Leah Pinsent. Established in 2001, Canada’s Top Ten celebrates excellence […]
Those Who Can by Tobi Gordon for FILMbutton It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the new film documentary, Waiting for Superman lays most of the blame for the current crisis in education at the feet of teachers and their horrible unions. According to filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (whose own offspring, he confides, are safely ensconced in private […]
This interview with Ingrid Veninger, director of Modra, was originally broadcast on Sept. 23th, 2010 by Shael Stolberg on CKLN’s Frameline.
by Tobi Gordon for FILMbutton For many in the Diaspora, especially at this time of year. “Next year, in Jerusalem” is the prayer which has called a wandering, exiled people back home for centuries. In Eran Riklis’s new film, best known for The Syrian Bride & Lemon Tree, there’s another saying, however, that seems to […]
by Tobi Gordon for FILMbutton Pomp and Circumstances – The King’s Speech Who, among us, has not agonized over having to deliver an oral composition in school? Standing up there, in front of the whole class, praying your voice doesn’t betray your nervousness, sweating the sweat of flops, we struggle to get it over with […]
Michael Bennett is a New Zealand filmmaker who’s first feature film was chosen to screen at the 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival or TIFF for short. The interview was done at the festival’s filmmakers lounge and I do apologize for some of the background noise during the interview.
Denise Robert Wins CMPA’s Producer’s Award at the Toronto International Film Festival Toronto – The Canadian Media Production Association announces Denise Robert is the recipient of the fifth annual CMPA (formerly CFTPA) Producer’s Award of $10,000 cash prize. The Award was presented at the Festival’s new Filmmakers’ Lounge at the opening of the Toronto International […]
(Vancouver, B.C. August 19, 2010) — Award-winning director Katrin Bowen presents her first feature, Amazon Falls, in the Canada First program of the Toronto International Film Festival. Amazon Falls is based on Bowen’s B-movie experiences in Los Angeles and unapologetically exposes the grit behind the glitz of fame. Featuring actual midnight-movie footage from Katrin’s brief […]
In celebration of its 35th anniversary, the Toronto International Film Festival gives back to film lovers with the TIFF For Free programme, a series of free public film screenings showcasing programming gems from Festivals past. All screenings will take place at TIFF Bell Lightbox and will give audiences the opportunity to get better acquainted with […]
