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.gif) Toronto
Filmmaker Takes A Shot At Capturing Shinny Mania
(March 12, 2010) A movie musical about hockey? How Canadian, eh?
So Canadian in fact that a host of homegrown hosers are lining
up to be part of
Score: A Hockey Musical,
written and directed by filmmaker Michael McGowan. McGowan said
when he first proposed combining the disparate elements of
hockey and music,
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www.thestar.com - Bruce DeMara |
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Film Market Access Receives Grant
from Quebecor Fund
(March 15, 2010) Toronto –
Film Market Access
(FMA) is the
recipient of a
Quebecor Fund grant
to create
the Quebecor Cannes Market Fellowship. This financial support
will allow FMA to continue assisting Canadian
producers, particular those from under-represented cultural
communities with strategic consulting and coaching to fully
participate in business meetings and networking events at the
Festival de Cannes. |
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 Hollywood Picks Grit Over Glitter At Its Peril
(March 12, 2010) Of the many conspiracy theories advanced for
why The Hurt Locker beat Avatar at the
Academy Awards,
the only one that holds water is based on terrified actors. The
actors' branch is the largest single bloc amongst the academy's
nearly 6,000 voters. The thinking goes that
flesh-and-blood thespians balked at giving Best Picture to a
movie that triumphantly featured computers over humans. |
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www.thestar.com - Peter Howell |
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Green
Zone: Bourne-Type Action Belies Thoughtful Look At War
(March 12, 2010) If the vertigo doesn't get you in
Green Zone,
the paranoia just might. Paul Greengrass moves the camera
like a dog gnawing on a bone in this Iraq War thriller, creating
disorientation that some viewers might find intolerable. But
what the director and his favourite accomplice Matt Damon really
hope to do is shake up anybody who still holds Pollyanna views
about America's unhappy meddling in Middle East affairs. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com - Peter Howell |
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Running
Wild With Kristen And Dakota
(Mar.
16, 2010) Before
Floria Sigismondi
began shooting the bad-girl rock-band film
The Runaways,
she redecorated a room. The director pulled all the furniture
out of a large space in a Los Angeles studio, and papered the
walls, floor to ceiling, with hundreds of photos taken of the
seminal all-girl band that combusted after a few short years in
the late seventies. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com - Gayle MacDonald |
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Seema
Biswas Gets Cookin’ In Mehta’s Satire
(March 17, 2010)
In
the last 15 years or so,
Seema Biswas
has appeared in more than 30 feature films. Virtually all of
them have been shot in her native India, where she was born in
1965. Virtually all of them have occupied the serious end of the
dramatic spectrum. The one exception goes into Canadian theatres
this month. True,
Cooking with Stella,
made about a year ago, is set in New Delhi, primarily in and
around the compound of the Canadian High Commission, the first
time that venue has been used as a location. |
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www.globeandmail.com - James Adams |
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This
Movie Isn’t Broken. It Rocks
(March 17, 2010)
Veteran
Toronto director Bruce McDonald is showing his new film at the
hottest convergence in North America, the annual
South By Southwest (SXSW)
festival.
This Movie Is Broken
is a creative collaboration that reflects the spirit of this
unique event, which presents film premieres, an interactive
conference and music showcases to tens of thousands of mostly
young attendees. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com - Jennie Punter, Austin, Texas |
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