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Heysel stadium doc gets its world premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto
Lode Desmet's Heysel'85 - Requiem For A Cup Final willclose the 12th annual Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival inToronto. The Belgian production, which chronicles the Heysel Stadium disasterof 1985, is among 100 films screening at the festival, billed as the largestevent of its kind in North America. The festival ...
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Triplets wins Canada's Genie for top film
As anticipated Quebecois picturesdominated the 25th Annual Genie Awards in Toronto [20],particularly Memoires Affectives (LookingFor Alexander) which won prizes forDirection for Francis Leclerc, Best Actor for Roy Dupuis and Best Original Screenplayfor Leclerc and Marcel Beaulieu. The picture won four prizes at Quebec's JutraAwards last month.Pascale Bussieres won the Best ...
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The Liberace Of Baghdad
Dir. Sean McAllister. UK-Den. 2004.75mins.A documentary that goes behind the dailyheadlines out of Iraq, The Liberace OfBaghdad focuses on a pianist whose professional career came to an abruptend with the toppling of Saddam. Shot over eight months in Baghdad in 2004 attremendous peril to its director Sean McAllister, not to ...
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Animated Triplets wins top prize at Canada's Genie Awards
French animated feature TheTriplets Of Belleville won the BestMotion Picture Genie at the 25th annual Genie Awards in Toronto lastnight. As anticipated Quebecoispictures dominated the evening, particularly Memoires Affectives (Looking For Alexander) which won prizes for Direction for Francis Leclerc,Best Actor for Roy Dupuis and Best Original Screenplay for Leclerc ...
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Roby wins Claude-Jutra Award for White Skin
Quebecois filmmaker DanielRoby has been awarded the Claude-Jutra Award for the direction of his firstfeature film, La peau blanche (White Skin). The prize, sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada, will be presented at the 25thGenie Awards Gala to be held on March 21 in Toronto.Based on the novel ...
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Alliance Atlantis MPD unveils 2004 revenue hike
Alliance Atlantis' incometrust Motion Picture Distribution has recorded a 27% increase in its revenuefor 2004. The rise, from $340m(C$410.5m) in 2003 to $433m (C$522.5m) in 2004, came from strong results acrossthe breadth of the company's holdings in Canada, the UK and Spain. Canadian operations recordedtheir fourth consecutive year as the ...
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IMAX to install screens in Guatemala, Costa Rica
IMAX Corporation has signedagreements to install giant-screen cinema systems in Guatemala City, Guatemalaand San Jose, Costa Rica, the first IMAX facilities in both countries. The deals are with CircuitoAlba and Repretel, leading media and entertainment companies with operations inGuatemala and Costa Rica, respectively. Both facilities will accommodate IMAXtraditional large-format fare ...
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Toronto's new headquarters gets $20m cash injection
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival Group's proposed Festival Centre headquarters received a majorboost Friday when the Government of Ontario announced it would donate $20m(C$25m) to the cause. The plan for the newheadquarters, announced with much fanfare in 2003, has suffered from a lack ofinvestment momentum. TIFFG has set a target of ...
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Foreign films spent $267m in Ontario last year, says OMDC
Foreign-producedfeature films spent $267m (C$331m) in Ontario in 2004, a nearly 140% increaseover the previous year's $112m, according to numbers released Wednesday by theOntario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), the provincial agency thatadministers tax credits and local services. The increase isless a harbinger of things to come than an indication of ...
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IMAX gets Batman Begins at the same time as 35mm
IMAX Corporation and WarnerBros have announced that Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins will be simultaneously released to IMAX andconventional 35mm cinemas on June 17, 2005. It will be the eighth Warnerfilm to undergo IMAX's DMR digitalremastering process. Warner will be the exclusive distributor of the film toIMAX cinemas worldwide."Moviegoers love ...
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Game 6
Dir. Michael Hoffman. US.2005. 87mins.Despite an engagingperformance by Michael Keaton, this dramatic comedy lacks an emotional heft tomatch its sophisticated premise and milieu. Exploring the existential crisis ofa Broadway playwright and baseball fanatic, Game 6 goes to interestingplaces but never gels as a whole. Screening at Sundance in the Premieressection ...
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Duguay revs up Villeneuve racing biopic
Gabriella Martinelli'sToronto-based Capri Films will produce a bio-pic of legendary Formula 1 racerGilles Villeneuve. Christian Duguay (The Art Of War) has signed to direct from a screenplay to bewritten by documentary filmmaker Malcolm Clarke (Prisoner Of Paradise). The announcement was made in Montreal Thursday atthe nightclub owned by Villeneuve's son ...
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Memoires Affectives shares Jutra riches with Cinemascope
MemoiresAffectives won four awards, including best picture,and Ma Vie En Cinemascope won five asQuebecois filmmaking celebrated its own at the Prix Jutra in Montreal on Sundaynight. Memoiresproducer Barbara Shrier accepted the Best Filmprize while director Francis Leclerc took Best Director, lead Roy Dupuis BestActor and Glenn Berman earned Best Editing. ...
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Errol Morris to be feted at 2005 Hot Docs
Acclaimed US documentary filmmakerErrol Morris will be the guest of honour at the 2005 Hot Docs CanadianInternational Documentary Festival. Along with a retrospective of his work, thedirector of such films as Gates Of Heaven,The Thin Blue Line and the AcademyAward-winning Fog Of War will bepresented with the event's ...
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Errol Morris to be feted at 2005 Hot Docs
Acclaimed US documentary filmmakerErrol Morris will be the guest of honour at the 2005 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Along with a retrospective of his work, the director of such films as Gates Of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line and the AcademyAward-winning Fog Of War will be presented with ...
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MPD tips Laberge for corporate development role
Alliance Atlantis' Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) hasappointed Paul Laberge to the newly created position of executive vicepresident of corporate development and general counsel for MPD as well asgeneral counsel and corporate secretary of Movie Distribution Income Fund.MPD and the Fund incorporate the income trust created when Alliance Atlantisspun off its ...
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War of words erupts after De Hadeln's Montreal move
With the ink barely dry on his contract,Moritz De Hadeln, the new director of programming of the newly-launchedFestival Internationale du Films de Montreal (FIFM), has already come underfire from rival festival supremo Serge Losique's Montreal World Film Festival(MWFF).On Wednesday, the MWFF issued aterse one-page press release warning the new event ...
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Rize
Dir. David LaChapelle.US. 2004. 84mins.A delirious celebrationof dance, Rize is an eye-popping portrait of a south-central Los Angelescommunity that has turned its back on gang culture to embrace the music andmotion of a dance craze known as "krumping".Having screened inSundance's American Spectrum strand, where Lions Gate Films acquired worldwiderights, this ...
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Quebec films lead Genie nominations
Films from Quebec held sway as Canada's Genie Awardsannounced its 2005 nominees, however the big news was the absence of GoldenGlobe winner and Oscar nominee Annette Bening in the best actress categorydespite a best picture nod for the Robert Lantos-produced Being Julia.Also shut out of major prize contention was Don ...
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De Hadeln takes helm at new Montreal festival
Moritz De Hadeln, the veteran festivaldirector of Berlin and Venice, has accepted the top job at the new filmfestival in Montreal, Festival Internationale du Films de Montreal (FIFM).The new event was announced last Decemberfollowing a long simmering dispute between the Montreal World Film Festival(MWFF) and its principal public sector financiers ...