The annual festival in Toronto wraps by handing out a bevy of awards for environmentally minded films.
Quebec films continue their Canadian festival competition dominance as Guy Edoin’s Wetlands is named first-runner-up in Vancouver.
The unlikely audience pleaser about an aging lesbian couple on a rogue road trip is scooping up prizes on the Canadian festival circuit, to the delight of the film’s director, Thom Fitzgerald.
The Quebec film is one of 63 international films to be screened in Los Angeles for the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Committee.
Breakaway leads the Canadian box office for the week of Sept. 30 to Oct. 06 , 2011, with Cafe de Flore at #2.
Breakaway cracks the Top 10 overall Canadian box office for the week of Sept. 23 to Sept. 29, 2011.
Bridesmaids is this week’s maid of honour in The Nielsen Company’s top 20 list of DVDs for the week of Sept. 19 to Sept. 25, 2011
UPDATED: The film’s coproducers issue a statement on the the accident, which sent 10 to hospital early Tuesday morning.
The $5 million film, directed by Quebec’s Daniel “Podz” Grou, tells the true story of a man jailed for a rape he insists he never committed, and a single mother who sets out to prove his innocence.
The accident on the Resident Evil 5 set has sent 10 cast and crew members to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The festival programming manager is leaving to pursue other opportunities after four years in the role.
Production on the indie road film has just begun in the province, marking the first feature film for director Paula Kelly.