On the Scene
Lovable Doug Glatt, slacker hero and hockey goon extraordinaire, will be appearing on home theatre screens across Canada when the Alliance Films home release of Goon on DVD hits store shelves on May 29, 2012! You COULD rush out and buy a copy OR you can enter to a win free Goon DVD from the Toronto Film Scene! That’s right – we’ve got 3 of ‘em and one of them can be yours, all yours! Just fill out the entry form and check your email obsessively on May 29! Entries will be accepted ’til 11:59 pm on May 28, 2012....
This week at TIFF Bell Lightbox discover the next big filmmaker with the Student Film showcase or enjoy the antics of a hormone crazed Norwegian teenager in new release, Turn Me On, Goddammt! Events The Student Film Showcase, now in its 9th year, gives you a peek at the next big filmmakers with a carefully selected lineup of the best student films from across Canada. A variety of genres including drama, documentary, animation and experimental are represented in the following films: The Great Maldini, Swift, Sax, Open Invitation, Eraserman, In Here, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, Tam and Lingo. Schools represented...
A Little Bit Zombie, having recently won Best New Feature at the Canadian Film Festival, is coming back to Toronto for a midnight screening this Thursday, May 17, 2012. The film is a romantic comedy that follows the adventures of an HR manager after his recent bachelor party and his subsequent zombification – as if an STI wasn’t bad enough!...
This week, Toronto’s rep cinemas have everything from Canadian zombie horror comedies and a Bob Marley biopic, to a profile of a sushi chef and a documentary about the impact of charitable works on a village in Argentina. There’s bound to be something cinematic here for you to enjoy! Take a gander at their offerings below....
Coming this summer to TIFF on June 21, 2012 is a celebration of First Peoples films. Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition is a film retrospective that will explore the history of indigenous films from around the world. The schedule includes 28 features and over 30 shorts from Canada, the US, New Zealand, Australia, Samoa and the Philippines. Home on Native Land, a free major gallery exhibition of new media work by First Peoples artists, will open in conjunction with the film series and includes exciting new work from such notable artists as Kent Monkman....
This month’s installment of Cineplex Classic Film Series is Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Adapted from Tennessee Williams’ 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, the film pits working class Stanley Kowalski against his fading Southern Belle sister-in-law, Blanche DuBois....
Win passes to DIY Art and Life: A Day with Joe Swanberg, May 13 at Innis Town Hall! On Sunday May 13, 2012, Ultra8 Pictures, CINSSU and Refocus will co-present DIY Art and Life: A Day with Joe Swanberg at Innis Town Hall. The event features the Toronto premiere of Swanberg’s Full Moon trilogy, including Art History, The Zone and Silver Bullets, plus a Q&A sessions and a filmmaking masterclass with the man himself after the final film. Toronto Film Scene has two all-day passes to give away to a lucky movie goer! Trust, us you do not miss this exciting event! Just fill out the form below to enter....
Submissions are open for the 13th annual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival coming up this October in Toronto. The event screens all kinds of fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films – both short and features – on environmental topics. The special spotlight for 2012 is on renewable energy and sustainability, but your submitted film could be on any aspect of “urban and rural spaces, social, cultural and political environments, farming, food, alternative communities, Aboriginal perspectives, health and environment, climate change, water and more.”...
