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The Toronto International Film Festival, affectionately known as TIFF, turns 30 this year. To celebrate the occasion, Toronto's Media Monkey Productions, in association with the Toronto International Film Festival Group and Rogers Television, is producing Postcards from TIFF. Produced by Jeff Halligan and Micol Marotti, the project highlights some of the best moments from the past 30...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Scene+Stealer.-a0136847273
The Scene Stealer by Warren Dunford, Cormorant Books, Toronto, 2005. 355 pages. $29.95.

To crack open The Scene Stealer is more like watching a film than devouring a novel. As in many recent movies, the storyline jumps around in chronology. The book starts in the middle, jumps back in time to offer some sort of explanation for the events, and then brings us to the...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Gary's+Touch.-a0136847272
2005 26mins prod Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa, p/d/sc/ph/ed Ken Takahashi.

When you think of Ottawa, what comes to mind? Quiet, orderly streets, the boring bustle of bureaucrats, pampered politicians, Paul Anka? Think again. Ottawa is also a place of lonely, marginalized figures haunting its postcard cityscapes. Cinematically speaking, we need only recall...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Escape.-a0136847271
2005 19mins prod Canadian Film Centre, p Lea Marin, d/sc Sean Frewer, ph Samy Inayeh, ed Gareth Jones; with Stephen Bogaert, Kimwun Perehinec, Michele Duquet.

Out there in the scrubbed suburbs of Anywhere Canada, where The Adjusters Noah Render used to live, a nameless couple is dealing with the death of their child. The fastidious interiors of their huge home now house a...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/this+is+a+story.-a0136847270
2005 4mins prod Picture Plant, p/d/sc/narr William D. MacGillivray, ph Kent Nason, ed Christopher Cooper; with Joseph Rutten, Morgan Salter (voice).

Nova Scotia-based director William D. MacGillivray's (Life Classes, Understanding Bliss, et al) latest work is a short film as startling in its simplicity as it is vertiginous in its thematic possibilities. As the...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Worldwide+Short+Film+Festival+(6%2f14-19%2f05).-a0136847269
Bridging the wide gap between Toronto's manic film-festival season from April through to June and the beginning of the Toronto International Film Festival in September, this year's Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) proved that it is one of the best. Chris Landreth was the toast of the 2005 festival, and rightfully so. Even though it got a bit tiring watching Ryanthree times within a...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Yorkton+Short+Film+%26+Video+Festival+(5%2f26-29%2f05).-a0136847268
It was the night for Shadow Pleasures at this year's Golden Sheaf Awards. The performing--arts film based on the works of famed author Michael Ondaatje, Shadow Pleasures took home the Golden Sheaf Award of Excellence, the highest honour of the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival. It was nominated in seven categories at the 58th annual festival and won six other Golden Sheaf Awards,...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cannes+Film+Festival+(5%2f11-22%2f05).-a0136847267
The beer is cold and it is free. The sky s a warm azure canopy. The Mediterranean, just off the end of the Canadian Pavilion's wooden deck, is that same sky's inviting blue mirror. People are herded inside to hear new Telefilm Canada boss Wayne Clarkson introduce Canada's two pre--eminent film directors, David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan. They speak genuinely about how proud...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Gabriella+Martinelli's%3a+Little+Black+Book.-a0136847266
AT THIS YEAR'S 30th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, Martinelli and her U.K.-based partner Jeremy Thomas (Sexy Beast, The Last Emperor) are the producers of Tideland, one of the most highly anticipated films of the festival. It stars Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, The Fabulous Baker Boys) and newcommer Jodelle Ferland and is directed by the irrepressible and...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+ties+that+bind%3a+Louise+Archambault+and+Familia.-a0136847265
Quebec newcomer Louise Archambault worked as a line producer on commercials, unit director and stills photographer before turning to her own film projects. Atomic sake won the Prix Jutra for best short in 2000 and was screened at festivals worldwide. Now her debut feature, Familia, has been chosen to open the Canada First! program at the Toronto International Film Festival and is set for...]]>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lost+in+Iceland%3a+freezing+rain%2c+blinding+sandstorms%2c+dead+sheep%2c...-a0136847264
Beowulf & Grendel, a feature-film adaptation of the epic 8th-century Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, is a medieval adventure that tells the blood--soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll Grendel, who is threatening the kingdom of Hrothgar, the well--respected King of the Danes. When Beowulf arrives to help Hrothgar, he encounters Selma, reputed by...]]>