With Love and a Major Organ is written by Julia Lederer, based on her stage play, and is set in a world where hearts are made of inanimate objects and people suppress emotions to escape into technology.
READ MOREWith Love and a Major Organ is written by Julia Lederer, based on her stage play, and is set in a world where hearts are made of inanimate objects and people suppress emotions to escape into technology.
READ MOREKaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian director and musician whose filmmaking has brought to life stories from the margins of society and across the world.
His latest film, Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones), is an immersive exploration of rituals in Haiti, co-created with dancers, musicians, fishermen, Vodou priests, among other locals. Set to the poetry of Wood-Jerry Gabriel, Leave the Bones is a celebration of the complex and beautiful spirit of the island.
READ MORECanadian Film Fest (CFF) presented by Super Channel, the indie-spirited festival dedicated to celebrating Canadian filmmakers, today announced its lineup for the 2024 edition. CFF is showcasing 11 features and 45 shorts this year. Also new this year, CFF is extending the Festival to six days and expanding its shorts programming by screening six dedicated Homegrown Shorts programs, including a spotlight on Toronto filmmakers.
Here I give you a list of my personal picks of films screening at CFF this year.
READ MORESet in the mid 1990’s, a Japanese Canadian woman grappling with the recent death of her mother brings her family to a self-development retreat. When her distressed relationship with her husband begins to affect the children’s emotional security, the family is forever changed.
READ MORETraffic tickets can be utterly irritating, especially when you know you did nothing wrong… according to your version of events, that is.
READ MOREWritten and directed by Julianna Notten her inspiration for Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls was born out of wanting to “create a character who was confident in her sexuality without sensationalizing it, whose problems reached beyond the fact that she was attracted to other girls.”
READ MOREFaran Moradi is an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker, born and raised in Ontario. He is best known as a Telefilm Talent to Watch recipient for his feature film, Tehranto.
Tehranto is an unlikely story of love and family where Badi and Sharon, two young students with very different upbringings from a divided Iranian community, accidentally fall in love.
Sin La Habana is a film about destiny, power dynamics, and prophecy through the eyes of its three main characters. Leonardo (Yonah Acosta) and Sara (Evelyn O’Farrill), a young Afro-Cuban couple, are desperate to leave the island.
READ MOREThe Blood in the Snow Film Festival (BITS) announced last week a new Horror Development Lab starting in November 2021. The goal of this lab is to facilitate the production of projects by previously underrepresented filmmakers in Canada.
Approximately 12-15 filmmakers and their projects will be selected Canada-wide to be coached by industry leaders from November 18 to 23, 2021.
Did you know that 1 in 7 girls in Canada will leave school this week due to a lack of access to period management products?
Directed by Canadian Screen Award winner Rebecca Snow, and helmed by an almost exclusively female production team, Pandora’s Box: Lifting The Lid on Menstruation locates the global issue of period poverty and menstrual inequality at the intersection of health, economic, social, and even environmental justice