Montreal producer Bernadette Payeur plans to use La Donation’s TIFF screening as a weapon to lobby for the survival of auteur films.

Given how ever-present native peoples were in Hollywood movies, it’s odd how epically misrepresented they were.

What happens when a visionary filmmaker makes a documentary on an important environmental issue?

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.

In a seedy motel somewhere along Mississauga’s lakeshore, director Rob Stefaniuk is shooting a scene in which a sleazy rocker is about to be fellated by a goth princess.

As I’m chatting on the telephone with Passenger Side writer/director Matt Bissonnette, he is conveniently sitting on the passenger side of his producer Corey Marr’s vehicle.

Last December, during the typical winter production slowdown, Vancouver producer Oliver Linsley and some filmmaking friends were bored. So they decided to make an ultra-low-budget indie just for fun.

‘It’s not autobiographical,’ Bruce Sweeney says of his latest film. It’s a statement he’ll probably be making a lot, given the storyline in his new low-budget feature, Excited.

Gary Yates’ latest film is a crowd-pleasing, crazy heist movie, about four hapless outsiders who decide to feed their morphine habit by knocking over a couple of ATM machines.

Coming-of-age drama Cole is Carl Bessai’s seventh film to premiere at the Toronto festival.

Well-known CBC Radio host, actor, writer and musician Sook-Yin Lee has added feature film director to her multitude of talent hats. The Toronto-based media personality’s directorial debut, Year of the Carnivore, is the opening film in the Canada First! program.

We all can recognize the Newfoundland dog. A hirsute, enormous beast, webbing between its pads and gentle in temperament. If you’re not from the province, you may not know about the crackie, however.