Everyone’s Famous New episodes Thursdays everyonesfamous.ca It was 1968 when Andy Warhol said everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes, and he died before the modern internet was invented–he never knew how true this throwaway line would become. The Halifax-produced web series Everyone’s Famous, a third of the way into its second season, knows what’s […]
Walter Forsyth
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Walter Forsyth going to Banff
Filmmaker Walter Forsyth has received a CTV Fellowship grant to attend the Banff World Media Festival from June 12-15. Forsyth, director of After Frank and producer of Cubers, as well as a number of short films, has a bunch of new projects in the pipeline, including Leone Stars, a documentary about amputee soccer players. Check out this trailer assembled from footage taken in Sierra Leone.
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Vote for Forsyth in TIFF’s emerging filmmakers competition
Halifax filmmaker Walter Forsyth was one of five emerging filmmakers chosen to take part in a contest through TIFF. Filmmakers were given a camera and $500 to create a film based on the theme of water. Five were chosen as finalists, including Forsyth’s “This tear is a word,” which uses the distinctive voice and words […]
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Walter Forsyth at TIFF’s Talent Lab
Please donate to the Miranda July Fund. Halifax’s Walter Forsyth was one of 25 filmmakers chosen to be part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Talent Lab (September 9-12), an intensive program where lucky participants spent time with heavy-hitting industry professionals, like Tilda Swinton, Miranda July and Brian De Palma. On his way to a […]
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CUBERS on CBC’s Newsworld tonight
CUBERS, the documentary about obsessed Rubik’s Cube champs, produced by Halifax’s Walter Forsyth, is on tonight. CBC Newsworld, The Lens, 11pm. Related Stories
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AFCOOP announces new director
Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative just announced that Greg Morris-Poultney is taking over as executive director of the centre. According to a press release from AFCOOP, “Morris-Poultney spent a number of years as a producer and development executive in the local film and television industry developing new projects for national television broadcasters including CBC Television, History Television, […]
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Forsyth flies the AFCOOP
Two-year-old Sage Forsyth has the same dark grey eyes and curly red hair as her dad. In Walter Forsyth’s office in the CBC building on Sackville, she sits on his lap, watching Sesame Street on his laptop. The executive director of the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Cooperative says he doesn’t often let her watch movies or TV; […]