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March 18, 2010

 

  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,
    Source: www.thestar.com - Bruce DeMara
  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.  
    Source:  Film Market Access
  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.
    Source: www.thestar.com - Peter Howell
  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.
    Source: www.thestar.com - Peter Howell
  Running Wild With Kristen And Dakota

(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.
    Source: www.globeandmail.com - Gayle MacDonald
  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.
    Source: www.globeandmail.com - James Adams
  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.
    Source: www.globeandmail.com - Jennie Punter, Austin, Texas
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