Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 3, 2009 under Air Canada enRoute Student Film Festival | 
Air Canada announced the finalists in the 3rd Annual Air Canada enRoute Film Festival. A free public screening of the nominated short films will take place on Tuesday, October 20 at the Scotiabank Theatre in downtown Toronto, followed by an invite-only awards celebration hosted by The Drake Hotel. The nominees were selected from over 300 entries submitted to enRoute from emerging filmmakers from across the country.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival |
The 10th Anniversary of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, runs in Toronto from Wednesday, October 14th until Sunday, October 18th, 2009.
The Festival, which annually spotlights the work of Native filmmakers and media artists from across the Indigenous spectrum,will showcase more than 125 works by Indigenous people at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 28, 2008 under Green Reel Environmental Film Festival |
The City Playhouse will again roll out the “Green” carpet on January 16 & 17, 2009 for the 2009 Green Reel Environmental Film Festival. The festival features an environmentally-themed and thought provoking collection of award-winning international documentaries, mainstream Hollywood entertainment and independent productions.
The schedule of over twenty films includes several free screenings which are sponsored, in part, courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada. The list of films includes “Encounters At The End Of The World”, “Garbage Warrior”, “The Price of Sugar”, “Good Morning Khandahar” and “Sharkwater”, Morgan Spurlock’s controversial “Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?”, the Award Winning “Up The Yangtze” and the world premiere of the independent vermicomposting documentary “SQUIRM - The Story of Cathy’s Crawly Composters”.
Over 20 environmental vendors and community organizations will be showcasing their products and services in the theatre lobby area during the two day event. New for the whole family this year is a performance by the clown sisters Morro & Jasp in their critically acclaimed environmental show, “Go Green!” Morro & Jasp perform each morning at 10:30am. Tickets are $8 each or admission is included with the purchase of a Festival Pass or Day Pass
Tickets are $5 per person for each screening, $12 for a day pass or a Festival pass is $20 per person. Tickets can be purchased at the City Playhouse Box Office 905-882-SHOW (7469).
2009 SCHEDULE
JANUARY 16, 2009
10:30am - MORROW & JASP GO GREEN - tickets $8, free with Day Pass or Festival Pass
11:30am - SQUIRM : The Story of Cathy’s Crawly Composters
12:30pm - Town At The Top of The World - free screening
1:30pm - Darfur Now!
3:30pm - El Contrato - free screening
4:30pm - Five Ring Circus
6:00pm - Shipbreakers - free screening
7:30pm - SHARKWATER
9:00pm - Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
JANUARY 17, 2009
10:30am - MORROW & JASP GO GREEN - tickets $8, free with Day Pass or Festival Pass
11:30am - Encounters At The Edge of The World
1:00pm - Be The Change - free screening
2:00pm - Geologic Journey - The Great Lakes - free screening
3:00pm - SQUIRM : The Story of Cathy’s Crawly Composters
4:00pm - Up The Yangtze - free screening
6:00pm - The Price of Sugar
8:00pm - Good Morning Khandahar - free screening
9:00pm - Garbage Warrior
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 21, 2008 under Vancouver Pan-African Film and Arts Festival |
The second annual Vancouver Pan-African Film and Arts Festival to be held this weekend, October 24 to 26, in Vancouver, Canada. Last year’s inaugural VPAFF (held October 26 & 27) was considered a great success and included and included government delegates from Africa and the U.S., as well as distinguished guests, Ambassador Andrew Young and entourage, renowned American filmmaker Charles Burnett, and Government of Namibia officials.
The 2008 VPAFF runs from Friday October 24 (United Nations Day) through Sunday October 26. The program includes:
FRIDAY OCTOBER 24: Hosted by Jamaican-born and Canadian Raised Denis Simpson - award-winning actor
5:30 pm - to 10:30 pm - Gallery Gachet - 88 East Cordova Street, Vancouver
Star-Studded Opening Night & Fundraising Festivities: An exciting evening of fun, food, music, dance and film. Hollywood star and human rights activist Danny Glover is expected to introduce his new film, Poor Boy’s Game. Other entertainment includes Vancouver based DJ Diallo who will heat up the dance floor with the best of traditional, modern and everything between from across the African continent, and an invigorating Zulu dance inviting lively audience participation through call and response, led by famous African dancer/choreographer Bheki Ndlovu. Raffle items include, wine, gift baskets full of African products, pizza cooking stone and pizza wheel, and beautiful Zimbabwean sculpture donated by Stone Age Art and a two nights’ stay at the Tropicana Suite Hotel Vancouver and more. 5:30 PM to 10 pm, Gallery Gachet, 88 East Cordova St. Tickets $35 on-line: www.vpaff.com (Tix includes VIP Reception entry and Opening film)
SATURDAY OCTOBER 25: Harbour Centre SFU Downtown, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
11 am to 7 pm - Fletcher Challenge Theatre
Films: The festival premieres the screening of Jason E. Sims The Obama Experience, a brilliant 3D-Short animation inspired by the ground breaking efforts of the Barack Obama campaign, Senator Obama Goes to Africa - Directed by Bob Hercules and produced by Keith Walker. Narrated by Barack Obama, the documentary, this film chronicles his return to his paternal family’s roots on an emotional journey to Africa. It’s Time African Women Join Hands against Domestic Violence, Produced and Directed by Steven Hunt, and co-presented with the Law Courts Educational Society of BC. From Under the Bushy Trees, directed by Moira Simpson and Jan Padgett, this is a feature length documentary that explores how to deliver aid to Africa with justice and dignity. Bavubuka All Stars, by Canadian Aaron Elton, a documentary promoting Africa’s next generation young positive musicians, and Dan Balluff’s Children of Congo: From War to Witches a must see film, showing individuals and organizations that are implementing positive change for the children and people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 26: Harbour Centre SFU Downtown, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
11 am to 7 pm - Fletcher Challenge Theatre
- Music & Dance - All Aboard the VPAFF Express on Sunday at 11 am - 12:30 pm
Exciting workshop will include a solo performance by acclaimed South African dancer/choreographer Bheki Ndlovu as a warm-up to the simultaneous broadcast with South Africa. “In South Africa we have a lot of dances, especially now with some from other parts of Africa, and the music, interestingly, we still have music that inspires us to sing along, clap hands and dance traditional styles, which is the way we have celebrated life since the beginning of time”, said Bheki whose productions include Sarafina! Bafana and The Lion King. This 90-minute workshop of African song and dance goes from 11 am to 12:30 pm.
Simultaneous Broadcast with South Africa 11 am to 3 pm
- The Reel PanAfriCAN SoundsCAPE Videos: A ground-breaking inter-continental experience linking Vancouver audience members in ‘creative conversation’ with African film subjects in Africa! Stunning, Canada-South Africa co-production combining interactive film, music, dance and dialogue with participating audiences in both Canada and South Africa to explore issues of migration, multiculturalism and the role of the artist in promoting cross-cultural understanding. These films were made by artists who emigrated from other parts of Africa and who experienced severe animosity as they attempted to make a new home.
Using Internet video technology, this event links Vancouver audience members directly with people in Cape Town, South Africa in a creative conversation. This two-hour ground breaking event will be led on each side by a vibrant MC to create an interactive expression of African unity, understanding and international cooperation.
- Panel Discussion - 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
“Say NO to Stigma”: A discussion pressing issues of immigration, xenophobia, multiculturalism promoting cross-cultural understanding of refugee rights, resilience and reconciliation with panel members that include Dr. Catherine Murray (SFU), Moussa Magassa (Uvic), Rudolf Richards (Community Elder), Heiko Decosas (SFU), Addy Kgomo (Umoja Compassion Society), Arthur Martins-Aginam (SFU)
- 4:45 pm - Kinship Day Festival Closing Ceremony by Attorney General & Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism, Province of British Columbia
Closing Feature Film: God Grew Tired Of Us - 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm
The winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival - God Grew Tired of Us, the story features The Lost Boys of Sudan. This powerful documentary tells the story of four boys ages 3 to 13 orphaned by a civil war.
Fleeing their villages, they formed a surrogate family, protecting and providing for each other, traveling together for 5 years, over thousands of miles, against all odds reaching a UN refugee camp in Kenya. Eventually they were selected to settle in the United States by a humanitarian aid organization.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 20, 2008 under Migr@tions Online Film Festival and Competition |
The second Migr@tions Online Film Festival and Competition, Canada’s first and only online film festival dealing with issues of immigration, launched without any fanfare yesterday. The festival is organized by RCIviva, Radio-Canada International’s web-based service, and will feature a total of 80 short documentaries and dramas - 40 each in English and French - from more than 22 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, South Korea, U.K., U.S., Zimbabwe and, of course, Canada.
The inaugural event drew 150 submissions from across Canada, attracting more than 60,000 viewers. By going international, this year’s festival received more than 200 entries, each between four and nine minutes, from South African Sarah Van Borek’s Xenophobia Unplugged on a musician’s journey, to American Alana Kakoyiannis’ Cosmopolis, a documentary on Greek immigrants who, having gained social mobility, are passing the torch to the next waves of Mexicans.
Among the Canadian features are Ellen Tang’s Girl Any More, which examines if having an anglicized name affects who you are, Radha Rajagopalan’s Wires and Words, exploring how second-generation Tamil Brahmins in Canada connect to their heritage through the internet, and Punam Kumar Gill’s The Lesson, about the filmmaker’s father, who helped his Punjabi community in Edmonton by teaching newcomers how to drive.
Viewers can watch and vote for their favourite films at rciviva.ca/migrations, with a chance to win an iPod each week, leading up to the festival’s closing in mid-December, when the winners of the $25,000 in awards are announced. There will be an old-fashioned screening at University of Toronto from 8 to 10 p.m. on Nov.16.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 14, 2008 under FRESHTIVAL |
Opening day at Canadian Rockies’ ski resorts is only a month away and Fresh Sports will kick off the season by hosting the 6th annual FRESHTIVAL, Canada’s Premiere Freeski Film Festival.
FRESHTIVAL is North America’s longest running freeski film festival and will premiere the top eight new and exciting ski movies of 2008/2009, with screenings at Calgary’s Uptown Theatre October 16 - 18, 2008.
FRESHTIVAL OFFICIAL MOVIE SELECTIONS:
Thursday, October 16th
6:30pm and 9:30pm
The Fine Line - Rocky Mountain Sherpas
Under The Influence - Teton Gravity Research
Friday, October 17th
3:30pm
Turbo - Level 1 Productions
Journal - Theory 3 Media
Friday, October 17th
6:30pm and 9:30pm
Hunting Yeti - Nimbus
Claim - Matchstick Productions
Saturday, October 18th
6:30pm and 9:30pm
Reasons - Poorboyz Productions
The Massive - Tanner Hall
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 2, 2008 under Montreal World Film Festival |
Japanese director Yojiro Takita’s “Okuribito” (Departures), a drama about an out-of-work cellist who leaves Tokyo to return to his hometown to become an undertaker, won the top jury prize Monday at the 32nd Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF). “
The Necessities of Life,” by Canadian director Benoit Pilon, a story an Inuit hunter named Tivii who is afflicted with tuberculosis in the 1950s but regains his pride and will to live, won the audience award.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on July 25, 2008 under Cervino International Film Festival, Giffoni Film Festival, Gimli Film Festival, Rome International Film Festival, Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival, Toronto International Film Festival |
JCVD, a comeback film in which Belgian action star Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as himself kicks off the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program.
The Gimli Film Festival kicks off today, Friday, in Gimli, Manitoba, with the main events to include “No Network,” “Lars and the Real Girl,” and “Paris Je T’aime.” The festival runs through July 29th. | Gimli Film Festival
From July 25th to August 3 Breuil-Cervinia and Valtournenche will host the XI Edition of the Cervino International Film Festival. | Cervino International Film Festival
Actress Gena Rowlands will receive the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival in September.
Meg Ryan was on hand at the 38th Giffoni Film Festival in Giffoni, Italy on Thursday (July 24) where she received the Francois Truffaut Award
Rome International Film Festival executive director resigns
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on July 16, 2008 under Toronto International Film Festival |
Canadian programming at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival celebrates the best of Canadian national cinema, bringing the country’s finest films and filmmakers to the attention of local, national and international audiences.
The Festival announces Michael McGowan’s One Week, starring Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban and Campbell Scott, and Kari Skogland’s Fifty Dead Men Walking, starring Jim Sturgess, Sir Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan and Kevin Zegers. These titles join the previously announced Opening Night film, Passchendaele by Paul Gross, as Canadian Gala Presentations to date.
Special Presentations include Deepa Mehta’s Heaven on Earth, Fernando Meirelles’s Blindness and Philippe Falardeau’s C’est pas moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear !). These titles join Atom Egoyan’s previously announced Adoration. Read more of this article »
Tags: 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Before Tomorrow, Blindness, C'est pas moi je le jure!, Campbell Scott, Canada, Canadian Music Café, Cooper’s Camera, Deepa Mehta, Down to the Dirt Charles Officer’s Nurse, Edison and Leo, Fernando Meirelles, Fifty Dead Men Walking, François Girard, Hard Rock Café, Heaven on Earth, im Sturgess, It’s Not Me I Swear!, Joshua Jackson, Justin Simms, Kari Skogland, Kevin Zegers, Liane Balaban, Madeline Ivalu, Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Michael McGowan, Neil Burns, One Week, Passchendaele, Paul Gross, Philippe Falardeau, Rose McGowan, Sir Ben Kingsley, Toronto International Film Festival, Warren P. Sonod