Writer-director-star Kit Zauhar‘s debut feature Actual People is currently streaming on global streaming platform MUBI. The film focuses on Riley, a young woman in her final week of college who ends up having to confront anxieties about her love life, family, and future.
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Theatre Gargantua brings us The Flight, an original, new work, written and performed by acclaimed theatre artist Beryl Bain (Queen Bess Productions). The show explores the life of ground-breaking aviation pioneer Bessie Coleman, the first African American, and the first Native American, to hold an international pilot’s license. Coleman earned her license in France in 1921, after being unable to find anyone in the United States who would teach an African American woman to fly.
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郝邦宇 Steven Hao is a Chinese-Canadian actor, singer, writer and director born and raised in China. He is a recent Toronto Metropolitan University graduate who is already making a name for himself in the theatre world. Hao will appear next in Shakespeare BASH’d’s upcoming production of The Tragedy of King Lear.
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The reality that at a certain point in life, a woman must decide to have children or not is not without its pressures. Pressures from family, from partners, from society and from oneself.
In Huesera: The Bone Woman, Michelle Garza Cervera‘s first foray into genre filmmaking, this very pressure takes the shape of a haunting figure. Natalia Solián (Netflix’s Somos) stars as Valeria, a young woman expecting her first child who becomes cursed by this sinister entity.
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Demons are one of the most popular themes in horror films. The premise delivers and when done well, it will deliver serious creeps and honest scares. To change things up a bit in the genre and moving away from the Catholic point of view on demons, The Offering is taking this genre through a Jewish, more specifically a Hasidic lens.
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As part of my birthday month celebration, I always make it a point of enjoying as much of the Toronto arts & culture scene as possible. This year was no exception and I compiled an In The City list that I hope some of you were able to use to plan your days out and about.
Here are some details and recap of my time at a couple of events in the past month.
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In the latest from writer/director Hlynur Pálmason, a 19th century Danish priest is assigned the responsibility of the construction of a church in a far off corner of Iceland.
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Written 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.”
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As Aquarians, like myself, continue to celebrate on for the next few weeks, I have compiled a few more events to add to your celebrations.
Winter can be a difficult time to get around, however, this lists includes a wide array of events for your enjoyment.
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Writer/Director Rashad Frett‘s latest short film RICKY is a combination of people in Frett’s personal life inspired him to write this film. They described how difficult it was to get rid of institutionalized habits as well as the difficulties with reintegration. For some, it became so overwhelming that it eventually resulted in isolation from their families and friends.
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