Cairo Time arrives on screens Friday but was ‘a nightmare, logistically,’ to shoot, says director Ruba Nadda

Love songs warm hearts as Claude Demers’ doc Les dames en blue bows at FNC. ”When I saw the film I cried,’ says Chamberlan

CBC funnyman to host gala from Calgary

Retrospective and ‘master of cinema’ award awaits at Mannheim festival

Vic Sarin screens latest at festival opener. ‘This film is very close to my heart,’ star Connie Nielsen tells crowd

Exclusive DVD deal for Canada and U.S. includes Dolan’s I Killed My Mother

Acclaimed late documentary filmmaker and veteran thesp among this year’s recipients for their influential work

The Vancouver International Film Festival is pulling out all the stops for its 28th annual installment, Oct. 1-16.

Business opportunities are being bolstered at VIFF’s Film and Television Forum (Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 ) with the addition of Storyville Vancouver, a new event featuring a long-form documentary pitch session in front of a panel of international commissioning editors, plus seminars on creative documentaries.

Popular and prolific West Coast directors are being showcased in VIFF’s Canadian Images, starting with Vancouver filmmaker Bruce Sweeney, whose romantic comedy Excited opens the program.

Veteran Montreal filmmaker Kevin Tierney had a profitable TIFF, bagging the $10,000 CFTPA producer’s award for The Trotsky.

Former ThinkFilm topper Mark Urman is back in indie distribution, this time with his own company, Paladin. The new outfit reunites Urman with two other former ThinkFilm execs, Amanda Sherwin, who becomes head of marketing at Paladin, and Michael Tuckman, who oversees theatrical sales. Sherwin and Tuckman filled the same posts at ThinkFilm.