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10th Genie Awards ...
The 10th Genie Awards were held on March 22, 1989."Dead Ringers tops at Genies". ''Montreal Gazette'', March 23, 1989. This was in the middle of a strike at the CBC, causing the ceremony to be scaled down and several nominees to boycott the awards in sympathy; although the ceremony was still aired by CBC Television, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television was forced to produce the broadcast alone. The awards were dominated by David Cronenberg's '' Dead Ringers'', which won ten awards. The event was held at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto and was hosted by Dave Thomas. Nominees and winners Nominees and winners were: References {{Canadian Screen Awards 10 Genie Genie Jinn ( ar, , ') – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies (with the broader meaning of spirit or demon, depending on sources) – are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian religious systems and later in Islamic mytho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westin Harbour Castle Hotel
The Westin Harbour Castle Toronto is a large hotel opened in 1975 on the waterfront of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Westin Hotels chain within Marriott International. History The hotel was built by the Campeau Corporation, after Canadian real estate tycoon Robert Campeau was given permission by the city of Toronto in 1972 to turn industrial land on the city's waterfront into a 30-acre residential and commercial development. The 38-story twin-towered 963-room hotel opened in April 1975 as the Harbour Castle Hotel. Cut off from the city by the Gardiner Expressway, the hotel was at first unsuccessful, with an occupancy rate of only 46.2% in its first year and an even lower rate in its second. Hilton Worldwide, Hilton International assumed management in 1977, and the hotel was renamed the Toronto Hilton Harbour Castle. Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-Shing purchased the hotel from Campeau in 1981. In a complicated management swap in 1987, Hilton Hotels traded operatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outside Chance Of Maximilian Glick
''The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick'' is a 1988 Canadian film based on the novel by Morley Torgov. The film was shot in Winnipeg and Beausejour, Manitoba. Plot The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic Jewish humor. The town's rabbi dies, and a subplot develops in which Max's father and grandfather (synagogue leaders) are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl, with whom he later duets in a piano competition. The quirky, fun-loving rabbi tries to help him with his problems, yet harbours a secret ambition of his own. Primary cast *Noam Zylberman - Maximilian Glick *Jan Rubeš - Augustus Glick *Susan Douglas Rubeš - Bryna Glick * Sharon Corder - Sarah Glick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Walker (filmmaker)
John Charles Walker (born July 5, 1952 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian filmmaker and cinematographer.John Walker at . His film '' Strand: Under the Dark Cloth'' won the for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the |
Jackie Burroughs
Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs (2 February 1939 – 22 September 2010) was a British-born Canadian actress. Early life Born in Southport, Lancashire (now Merseyside), England, she emigrated to Canada on 26 August 1948 with her mother Edna, her father Harry and younger brother Gary. Career Burroughs started acting in live theatre at Ontario's famous Stratford Festival, including starring as Portia in ''The Merchant of Venice'' in 1976. Her film credits included '' The Dead Zone'' (1983), ''The Grey Fox'' (1982), and a voice-over stint in the legendary animated anthology '' Heavy Metal'' (1981), while her TV-series resume includes the roles of Mrs. Amelia Evans in '' Anne of Green Gables'' (1985) and Hetty King in '' Road to Avonlea'' (1990). In 1987, Jackie Burroughs produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in '' A Winter Tan'', a film based on the letters of Maryse Holder, published in 1979 as the book ''Give Sorrow Words – Maryse Holder's Letters from Mexico'', later rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Clark
Louise Clark is a Canadian businesswoman, producer, and broadcast executive. Her most notable work is attributed with the Canadian television show ''Corner Gas''. She has worked on "television drama and comedy shows, feature films, movies-of-the-week, and documentaries." Career Clark joined CTV in 1998. Prior to joining the network, she had served as head of the Ontario Film Development Corporation, had worked for the National Film Board, and was codirector with Jackie Burroughs, John Frizzell, John Walker and Aerlyn Weissman of the 1987 feature film ''A Winter Tan''. Clark assumed the position of producer; her most renowned work is on five seasons of the number one comedy ''Corner Gas''. This popular Canadian TV show has six season and has won various awards, including nine Canadian Comedy Awards, and six Gemini Awards. Her production on this hit television show changed her life in a drastic way; it provided more freedom and more trust from the CTV executives. In turn this led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frizzell
John B. Frizzell (born in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian screenwriter and film producer. After several years writing, directing and co-producing the documentary series ''A Different Understanding'' for TVOntario, Frizzell joined partners Niv Fichman, Barbara Willis Sweete and Larry Weinstein to found the Canadian production company Rhombus Media. He left Rhombus in the mid-eighties to pursue a career in writing. His credits include the television series '' Airwaves'', ''The Rez'', ''Twitch City'', ''Angela Anaconda'' and '' Material World'' and the films ''A Winter Tan'', '' Getting Married in Buffalo Jump'', ''Life with Billy'', '' Dance Me Outside'', '' On My Own'' and ''Lapse of Memory''. He was co-winner of a Writers Guild of Canada The Writers Guild of Canada is an organization representing more than 2,500 professional writers working in film, television, radio, and digital media production in Canada. Members of the Guild write dramatic TV series, feature films, Movies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aerlyn Weissman
Aerlyn Weissman (born 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is a two-time Genie Award-winning Canadian documentary filmmaker and political activist on behalf of the lesbian community. Career Weissman trained in sound recording in the United States before coming to Canada in 1970, and worked as a sound designer at the National Film Board of Canada - one of very few women in that role. She worked on Janis Cole and Holly Dale’s '' P4W: Prison for Women'' (1981), and ''Hookers on Davie'' (1984). After the success of '' Forbidden Love'', Weissman collaborated with Lynne Fernie on a film about lesbian writer Jane Rule, the Genie-winning '' Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule'' (1995). She also directed the film ''Without Fear'' (1993), about women surviving violence. Weissman's indie documentary '' Little Sister’s vs Big Brother'', a stirring and comprehensive epic of the bookstore's struggles against state censorship, premiered in 2002. Included in the NFB's 2003 queer pedagogi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Winter Tan
''A Winter Tan'' is a 1987 Canadian drama film. Based on the book ''Give Sorrow Words'' by Maryse Holder, the film stars Jackie Burroughs as Holder. The screenplay was written by Burroughs and John Frizzell, and the film was directed and produced jointly by Burroughs, Frizzell, Louise Clark, John Walker and Aerlyn Weissman. Plot summary Jackie Burroughs stars as Maryse Holder, the ill-fated feminist author who met an untimely death in Acapulco. Her behavior toward Mexican men was to regard them as subjects for the pursuit of sexual and romantic adventure. Her own pursuits of sex, booze and love lead to her death at the hands of one of her many macho partners. Cast * Jackie Burroughs as Maryse Holder * Erando Gonzalez as Miguel Novaro * Anita Olanick as Pam * Diane D'Aquila as Edith Awards Burroughs won the Genie Award for Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress. References External links * * 1987 films Canadian drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Robert
Denise Robert, , is a Canadian film producer, co-founder and President of Cinémaginaire with Daniel Louis. She is currently married to Denys Arcand and she has produced many of his films. Robert has won many awards, including four Genie Awards. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Producers Branch in 2005. In 2014, she was named a Member of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abbreviated as OC) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the ... " r her role in asserting and helping to develop Quebec cinema as one of the most respected producers in Canada." References External links * Honorary Doctorates2003 interview with Denise Robert Canadian film actresses Film producers from Quebec Canadian television producers Canadian women television producers Producers of Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Spry
Robin Spry (October 25, 1939 – March 28, 2005) was a Canadian film director and television producer and screenwriter. Spry was perhaps best known for his documentary films '' Action: The October Crisis of 1970'' and '' Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis'' about Quebec's October Crisis. Profile Robin Spry was born in Toronto, Ontario to Canadian broadcast pioneer Graham Spry and economic historian Irene Spry. After studies at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Spry began his filmmaking career in 1964 at the National Film Board in Montreal, earning a place on its payroll in 1965 and remaining there until stepping down in 1978. While at the NFB Spry built a reputation as a documentarist engaged with the issues of the day, with films on abortion, youth rebellion, and contemporary politics. His ''Prologue (1970 film), Prologue'' documented the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, weaving narrative with archival footage to become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight For The Heart (film)
''Straight for the Heart'' (french: À corps perdu) is a 1988 Canadian/Swiss French-language drama film. It was filmed in Montreal,Loren Ruth Lerner It is based on Yves Navarre's novel "Kurwenal".Thomas Waugh It was selected in the official competition of the Venice Film Festival, and the official competition at the Chicago International Film Festival. Plot Pierre (Habich) is a photojournalist from Montreal who's working on a reportage in Nicaragua. There he sees many people being executed and he takes photographs of them, even of the death of a young child and of his mother crying. Back home in Montreal, his ten-year bisexual ménage à trois is over. Sarah (Tremblay) and David (Voita) have moved out, leaving Pierre wondering why. Pierre is haunted by his experiences and memories of war, and those of his relationship with Sarah and David. The memories in his mind are mostly shown in black and white movies with emotional background music. After some time stalking David and Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Malo
René Malo, CQ (born 7 March 1942) is a French Canadian film producer, most noted for establishing the Malofilm production and distribution studio. Born in Joliette, Quebec, Malo produced youth-oriented shows at Expo 67. He later became a member of the first crew assigned to manage Radio-Québec. As director Denys Arcand worked on the screenplay that became the 1986 film ''The Decline of the American Empire'' for producer Roger Frappier, Frappier saw the story as promising and lobbied Malo to co-produce, for a bigger budget. Frappier and Malo raised $1.8 million, allowing for more settings to be depicted in the film. Malo and Frappier eventually won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for the film. Among the other 25 films Malo produced were '' Sonatine'' (1984) and ''The Revolving Doors'' (1988). He later led the René Malo Foundation, which in 2006 awarded a $500,000 grant to the Université du Québec à Montréal for the establishment of the Chaire René-Malo. The Chai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
