Hot Docs Forum and market director Elizabeth Radshaw discusses the projects she’s excited about and how one pitch team was wooed after being found on a crowdfunding site.
Hot Docs programming chief Sean Farnel said the star wattage is one element of a 2011 festival that aims to lift Hot Docs from being a big regional documentary festival to a big international film festival.
Timed to coincide with World Intellectual Property Day, the Canadian Film Centre on Tuesday awarded Toronto filmmaker Ace Billet a $10,000 cheque as its Reel Challenge content winner for his short film Big Gulp.
The Los Angeles Times reports the Quebec director, still basking in Oscar glow from directing Incendies, is now set to helm the English language vigilante thriller Prisoners, to be produced by Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment.
The film, which features Paris as a playground for Dino, a cat, has been a strong performer on the festival circuit after bowing at the New York International Film Festival.
The OCAD program will earn graduating students a part-time diploma and a full-time master’s degree.
La nuit, elles dansent will screen in the Director’s Fortnight, while Ce n’est rien unspools in the Short Film Competition.
Hollywood producer Zanne Devine has launched a new Canadian multi-platform distribution company, Pacific Northwest Pictures, to be based in Vancouver and run by Emily Alden.
Deborah Chow’s film heads into theaters on April 22 in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, with more cities to follow.
Marc Roussel’s thriller Remote sees a man trying to prevent the murder of a young woman living in his apartment thirty years before.