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Durs A Cuire heads Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema will open with the world premiere of Guillaume Sylvestre's debut documentary feature Durs A Cuire. Described as a unique, uncompromising and intimate, the film travels behind the scenes at two of Canada's top restaurants to engage with the chefs who made them, Normand Laprise of ...
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Atopia snaps up Quebec features
Montreal-based Atopia Distribution has picked up four new Quebec-based titles, including Marc-Andre Forcier's Nemesis, Denis Cote's Elle Veut Le Chaos and Who Is K.K. Downey', the debut feature of actor Darren Curtis. Nemesis, Forcier's 12th feature, will feature Remy Girard, Roy Dupuis and Celine Bonnier in a family drama set ...
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Nic Balthazar's Ben X conquers Montreal
Nic Balthazar's Belgium-Netherlands coproduction Ben X was the toast of Montreal as the debut film-maker took the audience award, the Ecumenical Prize and shared top competition honours with Claude Miller's A Secret as the 31st Montreal World Film Festival wrapped on Monday night. The story of a young autistic man's ...
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Ben X, Un Secret share top competition honours at Montreal
Nic Balthazar's Belgium-Netherlands coproduction Ben X was the toast of Montreal as the debut filmmaker took the audience award, the Ecumenical Prize and shared top competition honours with Claude Miller's A Secret as the 31st Montreal World Film Festival wrapped on Monday night. The story of a young autistic man's ...
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Ben X
Dir: Nic Balthazar, Belgium - Netherlands, 2007, 90 mins.A galvanizing portrait of autism and its profound impact on both the autistic person and their families and community, Ben X boldly melds virtual reality with live-action verite style and docudrama to create what may be a new film grammar. Inspired by ...
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Lantos unveils new Canadian distribution, international sales outfit
Canadian producer Robert Lantos has officially unveiled his new international and domestic film distribution enterpriese, Maximum Films International and Maximum Film Distribution. As previously tipped on Screendaily, former Celluloid Dreams managing director Charlotte Mickie will head the former while veteran Canadian industry executive Tony Cianciotta will head the latter. Both ...
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Montreal festival's Cauchard lambasts Telefilm's Clarkson
The Montreal World Film Festival opened with a bang on Thursday with the festival's second-in-command calling for the government of Canada to intervene on behalf of the beleagured event.In her welcoming address, festival vice-president Danielle Cauchard called on Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper to give Telefilm Canada executive director Wayne ...
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Schoettle moves sideways from Sprockets to TIFF
Jane Schoettle, the founding director of Sprockets International Film Festival for Children, is stepping down from her position after 10 years to expand her programming activities at the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFFG will soon post an international talent search for Schoettle's replacement. A candidate is expected to be announced ...
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Transformers to hit IMAX screens eight weeks after release
Michael Bay's summer hit Transformers is to be distributed in IMAX cinemas, according to the giant-screen company and DreamWorks/Paramount. Having already grossed more than $300m domestically and $350m internationally since its release, the film will be digitally remastered for release on more than 80 IMAX screens worldwide September 21. Asked ...
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Toronto announces full festival line-up
World premieres from Lord Richard Attenborough, Renny Harlin, Gillian Armstrong, Alain Comeau, Wayne Wang and Michael Moore are among the highlights as the Toronto International Film Festival unveiled its complete line-up in advance of its September 6 opening. Also announced were new films from Kenneth Branagh, Paul Schrader, Sidney Lumet, ...
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Gross starts shooting $20m WWI epic Passchendaele
Actor-director-screenwriter Paul Gross has begun shooting his WWI drama Passchendaele in Calgary, Alberta. Produced by Niv Fichman of Rhombus Media, Frank Siracusa of Whizbang Films and Francis Damberger of the Damberger Film and Cattle Company, the $20m, 45-day production will follow the exploits of Canadian soldiers leading up to one ...
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Canada's Entertainment One buys Seville Entertainment
Entertainment One, the newest player on the Canadian film distribution scene, is acquiring Montreal-based distributor Seville Pictures, the company announced today. The move is the first Canadian foray in an ambitious global releasing strategy of Entertainment One Film Entertainment president Patrice Theroux, who launched the division last month. Speaking to ...
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Montreal World Film Festival - Second life
Serge Losique is on the phone and he is laughing. The president of the Montreal World Film Festival (Mwff) is not unlike the captain of a storm-tossed ship now entering safe harbour. The distributors who refused to give him films are now providing top titles (see sidebar). The agencies that ...
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Imax at 40: the bigger picture
IMAX started out as a niche in the exhibition business. Forty years on, the company has created its own distribution window. Now it just needs more screens. Denis Seguin reports.When the Imax Corporation was founded 40 years ago at the Universal and International Exhibition (Expo 67) in Montreal, its creators ...
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Canada - A catalogue of innovation
An Oscar, two prizes at Cannes, two top feature awards at the Hot Docs documentary film festival in Toronto, the GSM Award for original mobile content and a nomination for an International Interactive Emmy Award: Tom Perlmutter reels off the successes of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the ...
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Louis Belanger starts shooting The Timekeeper
Quebecois filmmaker Louis Belanger has commenced principal photography on his first English-language feature, The Timekeeper, for Real Chabot of the Coop Video de Montreal. Adapted by Belanger and Lorraine Dufour from the novel by Trevor Ferguson, the film stars Roy Dupuis, Craig Olejnik, Julian Richings, Gary Farmer, Wayne Robson, Gaston ...
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Montreal boasts 53 world premieres in competition sections
The Montreal World Film Festival today announced the films in Official Competition, First Films Competition and World Greats (Out of Competition) for the 31st event.Of 230 features, 53 are world premieres, 56 are international premieres (premieres outside the country of origin), 59 are North American premieres, and 42 are Canadian ...
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de Heer, Makhmalbaf films among TIFF Visions world premieres
New films from Rolf de Heer and Hana Makhmalbaf will make their world premieres as part of the Visions programme at the Toronto International Film Festival, the festival announced today. The 13 titles join the seven titles already announced, including Roy Andersson's You, The Living and Ulrich Seidl's Import Export, ...
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Montreal to fete Andres Vicente Gomez, Sophie Marceau
Spanish producer Andres Vicente Gomez and French actress and filmmaker Sophie Marceau will both be the subject of tributes at 31st Montreal World Film Festival. The festival also announced today the ten titles of its Midnight Slam! cult film programme, including world premieres of Jeb Weintrob's Scar, Laurent Courau's Predators ...
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Canada - Ten years in the making
On September 14, Jan Miller's baby turns 10. Strategic Partners (SP), the co-production market she founded in 1998 will begin a new decade.Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada as an adjunct of the Atlantic Film Festival, the three-day event has developed a reputation as a no-nonsense destination for producers ...