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Montreal's FNC unveils new programmers, prizes
Montreal's Festival du NouveauCinema (FNC) has drafted three new programmers, including New York-based producerMadeleine Molyneaux and Japanese film scout Hiromi Aihara, and will introducethree new prizes at its 35th anniversary edition, October 18 to 28,2006. The festival also announced that it hopesto increase the profile of short films by including ...
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Telefilm Canada closes Paris office
Telefilm Canada is closingits Paris office, effective March 31, 2006. The Canadian film and televisionfunding agency said the closure made sense because few clients were using theoffice and that what limited function is achieved there can be obtained throughother Canadian operations in the French capital and throughout Europe, such asembassies ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y. takes 13 prizes out of 13 nominations at Quebec's Jutra Awards
Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. literally swept the 2006 Jutra Awards, thecelebration of cinema in Quebec, to continue its domination of Canada's cinemaprizes. One week after winning ten prizes at Canada's Genie Awards, includingBest Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor, the Quebecois filmwon in each of the thirteen categories for ...
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Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. sweeps the board at the Genies
Itmay not have landed a foreign-language Oscar nomination but Quebecois title C.R.A.Z.Y.has more than compensated at home. TheFrench-language drama, the story of a young man's acceptance of hishomosexuality in a loving if oppressively heterosexual family, swept Canada'sGenie Awards on Monday, winning ten prizes out of 12 nominations, includingbest motion picture ...
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Prosperous IMAX goes back on the block
IMAX Corporation, thepioneer of large-format filmmaking and exhibition, has announced it isexploring "strategic alternatives" that include a possible sale or merger. Thecompany has retained Allen & Company and UBS Investment Bank as itsfinancial advisors in the strategy. The announcement coincides with the company's2005 financial results.It's not the first time IMAXhas ...
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Familia wins Claude Jutra Award, C.R.A.Z.Y. gets Golden Reel in Canada
LouiseArchambault's Famillahas been named the winner of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television'sannual Claude Jutra Award for first-time filmmakers. The prize,sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada, will be presented at the 26thGenie Awards held on March 13 in Toronto. Written by Archambault and producedby Luc Dery, Familiais ...
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Arctic saga to break the ice at Toronto festival
The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen, Zacharias Kunuk's and Norman Cohn's follow-up to 2001 Camerad'Or-winning sensation Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, will have its world premiere at the TorontoInternational Film Festival, as its opening night gala on September 7. Set in the Canadian Arctic in 1922 against the backdrop ofan expedition of ...
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Anderson, Fraser, Levy, Goulet inducted into Canada's Walk Of Fame
Four Canada-born screenstars, Pamela Anderson, Brendan Fraser, Eugene Levy and Robert Goulet are amongthe 2006 inductees to Canada's Walk of Fame, a celebration of Canadiancontributions to the world of music, arts and entertainment. The ceremony, which includesa star-shaped dedication and the casting of the recipients' impressions inconcrete, will take place ...
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Telefilm Canada greenlights seven French-language films
Telefilm Canada has approvedproduction financing on seven French-language feature films through the CanadaFeature Film Fund (CFFF). In a release Teiefilm saidthe CFFF's overall goal was to increase Canadian audiences in theatres forCanadian feature films to a five per cent share of the Canadian box office andthat goal had been realized ...
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Polar Express IMAX version crosses $60m worldwide gross
Warner Bros' Christmas titleThe Polar Express has crossedanother milestone in its IMAX format release, entitled The Polar Express: An Imax 3D Experience.It is now the most successful digitally-remastered IMAX film to date. The giant-screen version hasgrossed $60m worldwide, having earned $45m in its first release beginning in2004 and some $15m ...
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Seville picks up nine titles for Canada from Berlin
Montreal-based SevillePictures has picked up nine pictures out of the Berlin Film Festival fordistribution in Canada. Leading the pack is OskarRoehler's German box office topper Elementary Particles, which won the Silver Bear for best actor for leadMoritz Bleibtreu; Seville bought the film from Celluloid Dreams.From Trust Film Sales,Seville bought Lars ...
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Lassie to open Sprockets Toronto in April
Lassie Come Home will make its North Americanpremiere as the opening night film at the ninth annual Sprockets TorontoInternational Film Festival for Children on April 21. Released in the UKin December 2005 under the title Lassie, the Charles Sturridge-directed update of theclassic canine hero stars Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton and ...
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Lassie to open Sprockets in Toronto in April
Lassie Come Home will make its North Americanpremiere as the opening night film at the ninth annual Sprockets TorontoInternational Film Festival for Children on April 21. Released in the UKin December 2005 under the title Lassie, the Charles Sturridge-directed update of theclassic canine hero stars Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton and ...
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Canadians look south for new deals
Late last year, when a Canadian federalelection was called for January 23, there was a ripple of fear in the Canadianfilm industry and the culture sector as a whole. After 12 years in power, thescandal-marked Liberal government was doomed.The prospect of a Conservative victory hadmany worrying that tax-cutters would hold ...
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Upstart Montreal Festival collapses after just one year
The Festival International de Film de Montreal (FIFM) hasthrown in the towel. Ending months of speculation, the FIFM's administration, Regroupement pour un festival decinema a Montreal, issued a press release at 5pm Montreal time on FridayFebruary 10 confirming that it will not present a second edition. Soon after, FIFM programming ...
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Steel City
Dir/scr. Brian Jun. US 2006. 95 min.An overlooked gem in Sundance's USdramatic competition, Steel City is awell-written and solidly-performed exploration of working-class male angst seenthrough the eyes of two very different sons as they struggle with the legacy oftheir dead-beat father.The achievement is all the more impressivegiven that debut filmmaker ...
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The Darwin Awards
Dir/scr. Finn Taylor. US. 2006. 93 min.The Darwin Awards is a hit-and-miss comedy with far too few hits and way too manymisses. Indeed, the title is perilously close to reflexive, given the likelyfate of this misbegotten hybrid. A Premiere presentation at the Sundance FilmFestival, it will initially rely on the ...
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Alpha Dog
Dir/scr: Nick Cassavetes. US. 2006. 122min.Alpha Dog aims to be a nihilistic exploration of a true story about alow-level LA drug dealer whose career was ended by a more-than-usuallysenseless murder. But director-screenwriter Nick Cassavetes spends too many ofhis 122 minutes amidst LA's over-privileged and over-stimulated teenagewasteland and too little providing ...
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Glastonbury
Dir. Julien Temple. UK. 2005. 135 min.A tribute to the legendary UK pop musicfestival, Glastonbury achieves a state ofgrace rare in performance documentaries; you begin to feel you're in attendanceat this three-day marathon of music, mood-altering substances and mayhem. At135 minutes, it's a concert film that will test the endurance ...
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Fifth TIFF tour to set sail for UK, Eire
The TorontoInternational Film Festival Group's Film Circuit will present seven Canadiantitles during a tour of Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and the Republic ofIreland from Feb 19-May 5.The fifth annual event, entitled Canadian Cinema Showcase: North Of Hollywood,features recent Canadian productions including Thom Fitzgerald's 3 Needles, Francis Leclerc's Memoires Affectives (UK/Irish ...