Review: World of Comedy Festival Short Appetizers and a Feature Chaser
The second program of the World of Comedy Film Festival on Saturday afternoon had a mixed bag of shorts and a 77 minute feature film. With the exception of one very short film about dressing Christmas tree, the theme was oddball crimes — and watching bad criminals is pretty funny! Read more
Review: World of Comedy Festival Animation & Other Wonders
The Animation and Other Wonders program of the World of Comedy Film Festival, on this weekend, was full of laughs and oddities on a sunny day. Read more
History of 3D Film Festival
As anyone with eyes and an interest in film can tell you, 3D is big (and I mean, huge) business these days. There are at least three 3D films nominated for Academy Awards this year: Avatar, Up, and Coraline (and those are just the ones I know about). Just in time to catch the new wave, you’ve now got a chance to find out all about 3D movies – every Monday night in March, Reg Hartt’s Cineforum is presenting The History of 3D Film Festival. Read more
World of Comedy Film Festival begins Friday
Another fine film festival is coming to Toronto! The World of Comedy Film Festival will run from Friday, March 5th to Sunday, March 7th. Mostly comprised of home-grown and International short comedy films, the schedule includes five short film programs, one feature film (Paul Brannigan’s Labrats), and even a Friday afternoon Masterclass on Improv with Paul Dooley (who I remember best playing Molly Ringwald’s dad in Sixteen Candles). Read more
Calling All Budding (Young) Filmmakers!
Do you live in the GTA? Are you between the ages of 18 and 26? Got nothing to do this weekend? Well, how ’bout you make a film about our fair city? Oh yes, you can! The inaugural T24 Project (part of the Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival) is taking place this Friday March 5th at 6:30pm in the Innis College Town Hall. Read more
Taiwan Cinema Festival starts Friday
The Asian Institute at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies is giving Torontonians a rare opportunity to catch some Taiwanese cinema this weekend with the Taiwan Cinema Yesterday and Today Conference. It all begins with an Opening Night Gala this Friday, February 26th at 6:30pm. Read more
ToRoFF3: Q & A with Andrei Dascalescu, director of Constantin and Elena
Andrei Dascalesu talks about his film, Constantin and Elena, screened on February 6th, 2010, at the 3rd Annual Toronto Romanian Film Festival. Read more
ToRoFF3: Q & A with Tudor Giurgiu, director of Weddings, Musics, and Videotapes
Tudor Giurgiu answered the audience’s questions after the screening of his documentary, Weddings, Musics, and Videotapes, at Innis Hall on February 6th, 2010. Read more
Reel Artists Film Festival begins this week
This Wednesday evening, February 24th, marks the beginning of the Canadian Art Foundation’s Reel Artists Film Festival, a series of 14 documentaries on the subject of artists. The opening night film, and Canadian premiere, is Tamra Davis’ Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, fresh from its very recent Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize nomination. Read more
2010 Canadian Music Week Film Festival
Looking over this year’s selection of films at Canadian Music Week’s Film Festival, I immediately flipped my lid over Streets of Fire! Then, once I calmed down, I tried to think of a less nerdy term for being excited than “flipped my lid”, but I couldn’t. The four-day annual Canadian Music Week (March 10 – 14) hosts a two-day film fest (March 12 – 13) at which music-oriented films (everything from fiction and documentary, to old and new, to big-budget and indie) come together to celebrate the pomp and power of the aural landscape. But why the fuss about Streets of Fire, you ask? Read more
