The 10th Annual CaribbeanTales International Film Festival announced its award recipients on Saturday September 19, at the closing ceremonies. This year 16 feature-length and 35 short films in Official Competition, including dramas and documentaries from 25 countries covering all genres and themes, screened over ten days at the Royal Cinema in Toronto. The 2015 Incubator […]
This is the inaugural year for Platform, the Festival’s new juried programme that champions director’s cinema from around the world. The Festival welcomed an international jury composed of acclaimed filmmakers Jia Zhang-ke, Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland, who awarded the first ever Toronto Platform Prize to Alan Zweig for HURT. The jury remarked, “Following a […]
imagineNATIVE announces the first producer-focused professional development lab for emerging and mid-career Canadian Indigenous Producers looking to hone their skills in dramatic feature film production. In recent years, the Indigenous film community has identified the immediate need for increased training and professional development opportunities for Indigenous creative feature film producers in Canada. As audience appetite […]
Toronto – In advance of its World Premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Video Services Corp (VSC) has obtained all Canadian rights for the highly anticipated documentary This Changes Everything, a film by Avi Lewis. Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international bestselling book of the same name, This Changes Everything is an ambitious global […]
$120,000 in Completion and Development Grants Awarded to Top Canadian Doc Projects TORONTO – Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Shaw Media are pleased to announce that five projects have been chosen to receive a total of $120,000 in grants from the Shaw Media-Hot Docs Funds in its fifteenth round of disbursements. Established in […]
TORONTO, ON – Fan Expo™ Canada announces a group of celebrity guests that brings the 4-day extravaganza to a whole new level of fandom. The mecca of pop-culture will return to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre Labour Day Weekend with loads of celebrity sightings Fan Expo™ Canada expects 140,000 fans to come through the doors […]
TORONTO ─ TIFF unveiled today special guests confirmed for the 2015 TIFF Industry Conference. The seven-day conference will feature 200 speakers and will include intimate conversations with industry powerhouse Gigi Pritzkerand financing mogul Nicolas Chartier, and an Asian Film Summit Master Class with acclaimed filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke. Actor, writer and producer Bill Hader and award-winning […]
A Summer of FREE Live Music and Movies Continues at Yonge-Dundas Square! Presented by Virgin Mobile The epicentre of Toronto, Yonge-Dundas Square (YDS), will be teeming with free live music, and movies about music, all summer long! Toronto loves movies, and free movies even more! The only downside is sitting in an overly air-conditioned theatre […]
SiriusXM Canada’s Top Comic Finale headlined by Harland Williams Voting opens today to choose the eight finalists. Canada Laughs broadcasting live from Just For Laughs Montreal. TORONTO – SiriusXM Canada (TSX: XSR), the country’s leading audio entertainment company, today has revealed the 24 semi-finalists in SiriusXM’s Top Comic nationwide comedy search. It’s now up to […]
TORONTO – JULY 17 – KINGSWAY THEATRE; VANCOUVER AUGUST 7 – VANCITY THEATRE Norway’s Submission to the Academy Awards Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2014 “Despite the weighty title, this is an extremely light, delicate art film that rarely makes a false move”. – The Hollywood Reporter “Quietly moving and exquisitely made, suffused with […]
