Indie film producer Christina Piovesan is learning the virtue of patience.
The fourth annual Playback Canadian Film & Television Hall of Fame event was a star-studded affair, with the best of Canadian talent on the red carpet and at the podium.
The dealmaking on the ground at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday recorded the first major Canadian sale: Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies going to Sony Pictures Classics.
The late Canadian TV host Brian Linehan was famous for Hollywood celebrities responding to his probing questions during interviews with wide-eye astonishment, before injecting: “How did you know that?”
Images from the press conference for Ben Affleck’s The Town.
Kicking things off for TIFF 2010, Score: A Hockey Musical.
Kicking things off for TIFF 2010, Score: A Hockey Musical.
As the countdown from ten began and a beaming Toronto International Film Festival director Piers Handling raised his giant ceremonial scissors, the tears started to flow.
Stories of the wounded struggling to liberate themselves from emotional isolation, grief and regret dominate the slate of Canadian features spotlighted in the Contemporary World Cinema section at TIFF this year.
The puck has dropped on the most unconventional film ever to open the Toronto International Film Festival, as Michael McGowan’s Score: A Hockey Musical kicked off the 35th edition of the fest on Thursday at a glitzy affair at Roy Thompson Hall.
This year the Toronto International Film Festival has selected a collection of films from both well-entrenched and recent breakout Canadian filmmakers for its slate of Canadian Special Presentations.