Shivers (1975)

Atom Egoyan is the Genie Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated director of Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Ararat and the forthcoming Where the Truth Lies.

Producer Robert Lantos of Serendipity Point Films first worked with David Cronenberg on the controversial Crash (1996), a feature that rocked Cannes, shocked London and led to what Lantos calls ‘one fun ride.’

Viggo Mortensen gives a remarkable performance as Tom Stall, the lead character in David Cronenberg’s new feature, A History of Violence.

Peter Weller stars as Bill Lee in David Cronenberg’s 1991 feature Naked Lunch.

According to actor Ralph Fiennes, someone once joked that when meeting David Cronenberg for the first time, ‘You expect to meet a freak, and instead meet someone a bit like an L.A. gynecologist. He has something of a doctor’s clarity and precision about him.’

President and CEO of Toronto’s Capri Films, Gabriella Martinelli produced David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly as well as Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, in which Cronenberg performs. She also served as coproducer on Naked Lunch and as production manager and post-production supervisor on Dead Ringers.

It was 18 years ago that director of photography Peter Suschitzky embarked on what he describes as the most important professional relationship of his career.

Editor Ronald Sanders

Actor/writer/director Don McKellar performs in David Cronenberg’s feature eXistenZ (1999), while Cronenberg appears in McKellar’s feature Last Night (1998) and stars in his short Blue (1992).

Vincenzo Natali is the director of the feature dramas Cypher, Nothing and the international sci-fi hit Cube.

It was one year ago that private Montreal firm SECOR released its report on the state of film festivals across Canada. Due to the report’s scolding of the management of Montreal’s World Film Festival for being distant, difficult and ineffectual, Telefilm Canada and SODEC announced that they would withdraw their annual funding for the event starting in 2005. They declared that the money, which adds up to nearly $1 million, would go instead to a new and improved international film festival.