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Marc Glassman
‘The rough cut was a catastrophe’
Director Denis Delestrac recalls the over-long and over-budget making of his Pax Americana at Montreal fest
Last Train rolls into RIDM
Latest doc from EyeSteelFilm opens Montreal festival with a bang, tracing globalization’s effects through a Chinese family
Guild sounds off – composers should count too!
The Guild of Canadian Film Composers may have been operating since 1980, but it still hasn’t made a point. In fact, the Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office of the Department of Canadian Heritage won’t give a producer even half a point for employing a local composer. It’s something that Marvin Dolgay, the guild’s president, and Maria Topalovich, its executive director, would like to see change in the near future. After all, it can affect whether a Canadian composer is employed – or not.
Rudy Buttignol: Passion for documentaries
Rudy Buttignol may be Canadian broadcasting’s documentary guru but don’t expect him to be pretentious or boring.
Ontario pumps $10 million into TIFF
Province’s deputy premier praises festival’s ‘economic stimulus’ with grant towards Bell Lightbox
Special Presentation: Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Hugh Hefner’s image in the public mind is practically indelible. He’s the aging Lothario of the Playboy empire, an enterprise built on Bunnies, booze and the hedonistic lifestyle of the ’60s.
Special Presentation: Cairo Time
Though Cairo Time is her first feature at TIFF, Ruba Nadda is no neophyte. Sabah, the 36-year-old director’s drama starring Arsinée Khanjian and produced by Atom Egoyan, had a successful international festival run.
Real to Reel: Petropolis
What happens when a visionary filmmaker makes a documentary on an important environmental issue?
Real to Reel: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Piano virtuoso Glenn Gould was a sensation in the late 1950s, a genuine Canadian icon who hit the heights of international acclaim after his recording of The Goldberg Variations became a best-selling classical disc.
Maria Topalovich: Passion for arts propelled Academy veteran
It is no easy feat to sum up Maria Topalovich, but her friend, colleague and Hall of Fame alum, Trina McQueen, does it best.
Norman McLaren: Animation genius created poetry
Few meetings in Canadian film history have been as momentous as the one that took place in Manhattan between the National Film Board’s pioneering commissioner John Grierson and the mild-mannered, immensely talented Glaswegian animator Norman McLaren in mid-1941.
Ruba Nadda – Writer/Director
‘I come from making short films that cost me $500,’ says Ruba Nadda, director of the romantic drama Cairo Time. ‘Now I’m making multimillion-dollar films.
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