Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto... Genre director George A. Romero, will host a free screening of his classic 1968 feature film Night Of The Living Dead @ this year's Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff). Tiff will also be launching additional free outdoor screenings, with singers Neil Young, Joan Baez and director Jonathan "Silence Of The Lambs" Demme, @ Toronto's downtown Yonge-Dundas Square. Romero will appear at the screening of Night of the Living Dead, Sept 12, Young and Demme will host the screening of their concert film The Neil Young Trunk Show Sept. 14 and Baez will perform Sept. 18 at the screening of her new doc American Masters- Joan Baez. Other free screenings include concert/musical films Stop Making Sense, Rattle and Hum, The Last Waltz and Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man. Actress Isabella Rossellini has also adapted her film Green Porno, about how insects mate, into a special installation including video/sculptures of sea creatures,...
- 8/12/2009
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Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto... Further to reports from TorontoFilm.Net, LG Electronics have announced their inaugural LG Life.s Good FilmFest, an HD short film festival, enlisting the support of Oscar-winning actor Jamie "Ray" Foxx for a launch event August 11 @ Toronto's Manulife Centre, Panorama Room. Foxx discussed his own experiences breaking into show business and helped to preview the festival for prospective filmmakers/news media. "There really is no other film festival like the LG Life.s Good FilmFest," said Tim Barnes, marketing director, LG Electronics Canada. "The concept is simple: an engaging HD short film festival with no entry fee and the chance to win incredible cash prizes. We.re absolutely thrilled that Jamie could join us to help launch the festival, as his amazing work in film, comedy and music really exemplifies the spirit and talent the FilmFest will no doubt attract."...
- 8/11/2009
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Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto... As Sneak Peek first reported December 2008, the Toronto-lensed horror comedy feature Suck from Capri Vision Inc., a division of Capri Films, is written/directed by Canadian musician/actor Rob "Phil The Alien" Stefaniuk, featuring acting turns from rockers Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins and Moby, following a group of rock Â.n. roll wannabes in search of immortality and a record deal. "...Seemingly doomed to roadtrip doldrums and dives, the band 'The Winners' break their slump when their female bass player disappears one night with a studly, stylin. vampire. She returns charged with sexual charisma that creates audience frenzy and eventually ensnares the rest of the band. Their 'hook' launches them to fame. But fame turns out to be a different kind of Hell than AC/DC promised. Following an 'incident' on a national radio show with 'Rockn. Roger', The Winners hit mega-stardom beyond their wildest dreams.
- 8/4/2009
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HNR's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto... The National Film Board of Canada Mediatheque wraps up its 70th anniversary summer program with the feature docs Nollywood Babylon and Waterlife, plus a night of short films, animation workshops, day camps and free access to 5,000 Nfb titles through digital viewing stations. The Nfb Mediatheque is located at 150 John Street in Toronto. Nollywood Babylon will have its Toronto theatrical premiere, August 11, 12 & 13 at 7 pm, with co-director Samir "Discordia" Mallal in attendance for a Q&A, August 11. "...Nigeria's film industry, "Nollywood" is the third largest in the world, an unstoppable force that is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa. Unfazed by low budgets, enterprising filmmakers create a brash, inventive and wildly popular form of 'B-movie'. An official selection at this year's Sundance Film Festival, 'Nollywood Babylon' delivers an electric vision of Lagos, Africa.s leading metropolis, and a revealing...
- 7/29/2009
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Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto... Director Jon Amiel's newest feature Creation, a film about radical evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, will open the 34th Toronto Film Festival, Sept. 10. "This intimate look at Darwin puts a human face on a man whose theory remains controversial to this day," said Tiff director/CEO Piers Handling. Produced by Jeremy Thomas, the bio-pic stars actor Paul "Gangster One" Bettany as the English author of "The Origin of Species", with Jennifer "A Beautiful Mind" Connelly playing his wife 'Emma'. The screenplay by John Collee adapts the book "Annie's Box," written by Darwin's great-great-grandson Randal Keynes. The film was developed by the Recorded Picture Co., BBC Films and the UK Film Council. This year's Tiff has so far announced three galas and 19 special presentations. Galas include Aaron Schneider's Get Low, starring actors Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek, the biopic Max Manus, focusing...
- 7/15/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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