Seeing through talk of the heavy political line-up at the Toronto International Film Fest, our TIFF correspondent finds a true story of social change: Female filmmakers featured in force, finally.
Although Romeo Dallaire’s book about the Rwandan genocide is difficult subject matter for adaptation, scriptwriter/producer Michael Donovan says Shake Hands With The Devil is “definitely the movie of my career.”
Halifax’s Chaz Thorne burst onto the Canadian film scene this month by doing the “basically unheard of”—getting his first two features in Toronto’s film fest at the same time. But it didn’t happen overnight.
Lulu Keating left Halifax—where she is a filmmaking legend—for the Yukon. In Dawson Town Melted Down, she explains the attraction of a place with more dogs than people.
Former psychology prof Albert Maysles became the godfather of American documentary by making connections with subjects from Bible salesmen to Muhammad Ali.
Acoustic Ontario band Great Lake Swimmers gets lumped into the neo-folk category, but Ian Gormely finds out the group doesn’t “feel part of a movement.”