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Celluloid Dreams on The Take at Toronto
Paris-based Celluloid Dreamshas picked up international sales rights on the feature documentary The Take, written and narrated by Canadian journalist NaomiKlein, author of the best-selling corporate critique "No Logo", and directed bypartner Avi Lewis.The film, which screens inVenice's new Digital Section and premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs DocumentaryFilm Festival in ...
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Toronto programmer gets death threat for Casuistry doc
A programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival was therecipient of a death threat on Tuesday. The anonymous caller was protesting thefestival's inclusion of a feature documentary, Casuistry:The Art Of KillingA Cat, a film aboutthree Toronto visual art students who in 2001 killed a cat as part of ananti-meat art ...
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Festival programmer gets death threat for Casuistry doc
A programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival was therecipient of a death threat on Tuesday. The anonymous caller was protesting thefestival's inclusion of a feature documentary, Casuistry:The Art Of KillingA Cat, a film aboutthree Toronto visual art students who in 2001 killed a cat as part of ananti-meat art ...
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Creep, Dead Birds lead Toronto Midnight lineup
The worldpremiere of Christopher Smith's UK-German subway thriller Creep is one of the highlights of 10 titlesset to screen in the 17th Midnight Madness programme at the TorontoInternational Film Festival.Franka Potentestars as a drowsy commuter who takes the last train of the night into aterrifying maze of catacombs where she ...
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Creep, Dead Birds lead Midnight line-up
The worldpremiere of Christopher Smith's UK-German subway thriller Creep is one of the highlights of 10 titlesset to screen in the 17th Midnight Madness programme at the TorontoInternational Film Festival.Franka Potentestars as a drowsy commuter who takes the last train of the night into aterrifying maze of catacombs where she ...
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ThinkFilm takes Nixon for North America
Torontoand New York-based THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to NielsMueller's debut The Assassination Of Richard Nixon and will release thepicture in New York and Los Angeles on Dec 29.TheCannes competitor will screen as a special presentation at the upcoming TorontoInternational Film Festival, and is based on real events surrounding ...
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Toronto announces complete line-up
Films from KevinSpacey, Mike Barker, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Jean Paul Salome and CarloMazzacurati will make their world premiere at the 29th TorontoInternational Film Festival. TIFF took the wraps off its complete line-up at apublic press conference today. Of the 253 feature-length films announced, 100are world premieres, 26 are international premieres and ...
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THINKFilm draws new equity investment
Toronto-basedreleasing company THINKFilm has attracted new equity investment from twoCanadian investment firms, Covington Capital Corporation and Dynamic VentureOpportunities Fund.This is thefirst new infusion of equity capital in the privately-held company since RobertLantos of Serendipity Point Films joined as a partner and chairman in January2003.In a statement,THINKFilm president and chief executive ...
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Toronto unveils Visions, Discovery, Wavelengths titles
New films from DavidGordon Green and Michael Winterbottom are among the latest wave of worldpremieres announced by the Toronto International Film Festival as it unveiledthe complete line-ups in the Visions, Discovery and Wavelengths programmes.Visions, which wasintroduced in 2002 with a mandate to focus on "innovation" but is actually away of ...
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Montreal unveils competition line-up
The Montreal WorldFilm Festival has unveiled its 2004 competition line-up, including the worldpremieres of Paul McGuigan's MGM/Lakeshore Entertainment-backed Wicker Park and new films from Chile'sRaoul Ruiz, Greece's Nikos Panayotopoulos and Australia's Craig Monahan.The 28thMWFF, which runs August 26 to September 6, also features several worldpremieres out of competition such as ...
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Toronto revamps Canadian presence
Don McKellar's second feature Childstar will make its world premiere at the TorontoInternational Film Festival as the event announced its local programming andunveiled its inaugural Canadian competition line-up, Canada First!Also making their world premiere are Bruce McDonald's TheLove Crimes Of Gillian Guess, JerryCiccoritti's Blood, ElidaSchogt's Zero The Inside Story,Andre Forcier's ...
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Montreal to present host of film premieres
The Montreal World FilmFestival will present the world premieres of German filmmaker Andreas Struck's Sugar Orange, Australian director ChrisKennedy's comedy A Man's Gotta Do,and Canadian documentarian Debbie Melnyk's CitizenBlack, a film about newspaper baron Lord Black. The feature-lengthdocumentary features interviews with Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger, RichardPerle and Black's wife, journalist ...
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Montreal first titles include premiere of Black documentary
The MontrealWorld Film Festival will present the world premieres of German filmmakerAndreas Struck's Sugar Orange, Australian director Chris Kennedy's comedy A Man's Gotta Do, and Canadian documentarian DebbieMelnyk's Citizen Black,a film about newspaper baron Conrad Black. The feature-length documentaryfeatures interviews with Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle andBlack's wife, journalist ...
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Docs on Kerry, gay marriage, Rwanda premiere at Toronto
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival will present 11 world premieres, including new works from GeorgeButler, Peter Raymont and Don Boyd, as TIFF announced the bulk of its Real ToReel documentary programme.Butler's Going Upriver The Long War Of John Kerrychronicles the career of the current US Democratic presidential nominee, whileRaymont's Shake Hands ...
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Montreal under fire from Telefilm Canada, SODEC
Serge Losique, the mercurialand controversial director of the Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF), hasreceived an ultimatum. He and the organization he has lead for 28 years mustsubmit to the scrutiny and standards of Telefilm Canada and its Quebec counterpart,SODEC, or lose the C$1m of the agencies' joint subsidy to a ...
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Zidi, Schatzberg, Robert among Montreal Film Festival jurors
French filmmakerClaude Zidi will head the eight-person international jury at the 28thMontreal World Film Festival, August 26 to September 6. The director of suchfilms as Les Ripoux, LesSous-doues and their sequels as well as AsterixEt Obelix, Zidi hasworked with the pantheon of France's onscreen talent, including GerardDepardieu, Philippe Noiret, ...
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Telefilm Canada chief resigns for executive vp role at CBC
In a surprise move, RichardStursberg, the executive director of Telefilm Canada, has resigned after onlytwo-and-a-half years to accept a position at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.Stursberg, who was appointedto Telefilm's top job in January 2002, has been embattled of late, havingintroduced a controversial reward system based on a film's performance at ...
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Toronto snaps up Shark Tale
DreamWorks' computer-animated comedy Shark Tale will make its North Americanpremiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, an announcement whichmakes it a virtual lock for a world premiere slot at Venice.Other films that haven't screened previouslymaking North American premieres at Toronto include Todd Solondz's Palindromes, featuring Jennifer JasonLeigh, Ellen Barkin and ...
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Telefilm Canada to back ten low budget projects
TelefilmCanada has announced it will back ten projects, six in English and four inFrench, as part of its $1.3m (C$1.7m) Low Budget Independent Feature FilmAssistance Program (LIFAP). All the films are budgeted under $570,000(C$750,000).Theprogramme, introduced in 2000, was given a boost last year when one of itsrecipient projects, Jacob Tierney's ...
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Montreal gives a new look to film market
The MontrealInternational Film Market is putting a new spin on trade shows.The nine-daymarket, which coincides with the Montreal World Film Festival, is abandoningthe trade-booth format of traditional markets to focus on an increased numberof meet-and-greet cocktails and enhanced meeting areas.In a statement,market director Gilles Beriault said the changes would give ...