Splinters Thursday, September 13, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, 6101 University Avenue $50 finfestival.ca Thom Fitzgerald is having a busy week. Earlier he was in Toronto for the premiere of his new feature, Splinters, at TIFF. On Thursday night the film opens FIN: The Atlantic International Film Festival. And Friday is the first day of shooting […]
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CFAT’s Hyper colour
Hyper > Media > Paradise February 8-February 14 Opening reception Thursday, February 8, 7pm Centre for Art Tapes 2238 Maitland Street suggested donation $10 cfat.ca The Centre for Art Tapes hits the big four-oh this year, and one of its flagship events, the media arts scholarship, is not far behind. Video, audio, projection, virtual reality, […]
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Best Filmmaker
Gold Winner Caley MacLennan Silver Winner Thom Fitzgerald Bronze Winner Andrea Dorfman
 “The first thing: making art, to me, is about collaborating with people the whole time and actually enjoying the process,” says MacLennan, who after a handful of successful shorts premiered his debut feature Noon Gun—your pick for Best Film—at the Atlantic Film Festival […]
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Thom Fitzgerald’s divine intervention
Director Thom Fitzgerald has spent the past 16 years of his career bringing intimate character pieces to life on the silver screen, from his acclaimed debut The Hanging Garden to his most recent award winner, Cloudburst, a lesbian road movie popular enough to get a nod from Bill Maher on Real Time. But for much […]
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Cloudburst‘s home run
Local director Thom Fitzgerald’s feature film Cloudburst has burned through the festival circuit since its release in 2011, snagging awards left, right and centre, winning the audience award at the 2011 Atlantic Film Festival, following that up with 25 more audience awards at film festivals all over the world. Starring Oscar-winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda […]
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The Sex Festival loves you
The Plutonium Playhouse’s second annual Sex Festival (click for full listings and ticket info) steams up February. Get to the shows early, as year had sold out crowds. Why? Because people love sex. The festival is “a series of plays, readings, photos, music and videos that explore sex, sexuality, relationships, gender and the human body,” […]
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Curtains open for Cloudburst
“I don’t know what form something will take when I start to write,” says Thom Fitzgerald, the award-winning filmmaker of movies such as The Hanging Garden, The Event and 3 Needles. “I start with a thought, and it usually becomes a bunch of dialogue…I just seem to write in dialogue.” This may explain why his […]
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Plutonium Playhouse is going to blow up
Hunter Street has quietly become another cultural hub in city, thanks to fashion and art events at the Olympic Centre, plus the drums that keep me company as I walk home past the Rock Garden and Common Ground Studios. And now here comes Plutonium Playhouse, located above Long & McQuade (2315 Hunter), ready to blow […]
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Animal & bird life I have seen and/or heard
From the patio in Los Angeles I have heard: 1) gentle owls hoo-hooing every night2) horse (probably from Lea Thompson’s spread)3) various birds including one with a big voice like a pterodactyl4) rooster5) coyotes almost every night—group howls6) dogs responding to the coyotes I have seen: 1) squirrels2) robin3) hummingbird (also heard thrumming of its […]
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Film Fest following
Among movie folk, there’s a ritual: Sit down with the Atlantic Film Festival catalogue and/or website, and plot out every moviegoing second (from September 17 to 26), considering travel time, crowd sizes and the chance of films actually coming back. We hoard non-perishables and determine which lanyard ribbon brings out the colour in our Vitamin […]