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2015 Vancouver International Film Festival
The 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 34th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 24 to October 9, 2015. The festival's opening gala film was John Crowley's ''Brooklyn'', and its closing gala was Marc Abraham's '' I Saw the Light''. Awards Award winners were announced on October 9.Julianna Cummins"Brooklyn, Room win VIFF audience prizes" ''Playback'', October 13, 2015. Films Special Presentations *''Arabian Nights'' — Miguel Gomes *'' Beeba Boys'' — Deepa Mehta *''Dheepan'' — Jacques Audiard *'' High-Rise'' — Ben Wheatley *'' Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag är Ingrid)'' — Stig Björkman *'' Louder Than Bombs'' — Joachim Trier *'' Room'' — Lenny Abrahamson *''A Tale of Three Cities'' — Mabel Cheung *'' This Changes Everything'' — Avi Lewis *''Youth'' — Paolo Sorrentino Canadian Images *''The Amina Profile (Le profil Amina)'' — Sophie Deraspe *''Borealis'' — Sean Garrity *''Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn (film)
''Brooklyn'' is a 2015 romantic period drama film directed by John Crowley and written by Nick Hornby, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Colm Tóibín. A co-production between the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada, it stars Saoirse Ronan in the lead role, with Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, and Julie Walters in supporting roles. The plot follows Eilis Lacey, a young Irishwoman who emigrates to Brooklyn in the early 1950s to find employment. After building a life there, she is drawn back to her home town of Enniscorthy and has to choose where she wants to forge her future. Principal photography began in April 2014 with three weeks of filming in Ireland, which were followed by four weeks in Montreal, Quebec; only two days of filming took place in Brooklyn, one of which was spent at the beach in Coney Island. The film premiered on 26 January 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival, and was later screened as part of the Special Presentations section of the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cividino
Andrew Cividino (born 1983) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter."Big buzz at Cannes for Canadian auteur's coming-of-age yarn". ''Montreal Gazette'', May 22, 2015. He is best known for his feature film directorial debut '' Sleeping Giant'', which premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and for his frequent work as a director on the Emmy winning comedy ''Schitt's Creek'', for which he won a Primetime Emmy at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards. Early life Originally from Dundas, Ontario, Cividino frequently spent childhood summers in the Sibley Peninsula region near Thunder Bay. Career After studying film at Ryerson University, Cividino made several short films, including ''Norbert'' (2007), '' We Ate the Children Last'' (2011) and ''Yellow Fish'' (2012). In 2006, he won the Ontario Film Review Board's student film competition. In 2011, Telefilm included him on its annual Talent to Watch panel, and his short ''We Ate the Children Last'' made TIFF's Top 10 Shorts list. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beeba Boys
''Beeba Boys'' is a 2015 Canadian crime thriller film written and directed by Deepa Mehta. It stars Randeep Hooda as Jeet Johar, a loving single father, a dutiful son, a proud, observant Sikh and a ruthless gangster managing a team of stylish, charismatic but brutal and unforgiving young men. The film is a fictional take based on real incidents, including Bindy Johal. Plot Jeet Johar, is a ruthless Indo-Canadian gangster living in Vancouver, B.C. He and his gang take on the name of "Beeba" (which means good) Boys and dress in stylish, colourful suits. Jeet is irreverent, picking a feud with the much older Robbie Grewal, who deals in drugs and weapons. When his gang murders Lucky (and his girlfriend), a man who works for Grewal, for selling drugs on his turf, Jeet is arrested and forced to stand trial. While in prison Jeet meets Nep, a failed wannabe kidnapper who ingratiates himself to Jeet by beating up some white supremacists. Jeet also becomes attracted to a blonde juror s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Gomes (director)
Miguel Gomes (born 1972) is a Portuguese film director. He studied cinema at Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). Biography Trained at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Superior School of Theatre and Film Lisbon), Gomes worked initially as a film critic and author of theoretical writings on cinema. His films include '' The Face You Deserve'' (2004), ''Our Beloved Month of August'' (2008) and ''Tabu'' (2012). ''Tabu'' was a winner of the Alfred Bauer Prize for Artistic Innovation and the FIPRESCI Jury Prize at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival. His 2015 film '' Arabian Nights'' was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Filmography Short films * Christmas Inventory (2000, ''Inventário De Natal'') * 31 Means Trouble (2001, ''31'') * Kalkitos (2002) * Canticle Of All Creatures (2006, ''Cântico Das Criaturas'') Feature films *'' The Face You Deserve'' (2004) *''Our Beloved Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabian Nights (2015 Film)
''Arabian Nights'' ( pt, As Mil e uma Noites) is a 2015 internationally co-produced three-part drama film directed by Miguel Gomes and based on the ''One Thousand and One Nights'', comprising ''Volume 1: The Restless One'', ''Volume 2: The Desolate One'', and ''Volume 3: The Enchanted One''. It was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected to be shown in the Wavelengths section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Part two of the film, ''Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One'', was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. Plot The film is set in Portugal, with the plot drawing from current events. The structure of the film is based on the ''One Thousand and One Nights'' collection of fantasy tales. Cast * Crista Alfaiate as Shahrazād * Dinarte Branco as Uomo del Patronato * Carloto Cotta as Traduttore * Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina Shum
Mina Shum (born 1966) is an independent Canadian filmmaker. She is a writer and director of award-winning feature films, numerous shorts and has created site specific installations and theatre. Her features, ''Double Happiness (film), Double Happiness'' and ''Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity'' both premiered in the US at the Sundance Film Festival and ''Double Happiness'' won the Wolfgang Staudte Prize for Best First Feature at the Berlin Film Festival and the Audience Award at Torino. She was director resident at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. She was also a member of an alternative rock band called ''Playdoh Republic''. Early life Mina Shum was born in Hong Kong in 1966 and came to Vancouver with her family at the age of one. Her family, who had originally left Maoist China, settled in Vancouver as part of the first wave of Chinese immigration. In her early school years, Shum was interested in acting and theatre, and decided to pursue these interests despite her parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninth Floor
''Ninth Floor'' is a 2015 National Film Board of Canada documentary film written and directed by Mina Shum about the 1969 Sir George Williams affair, a student occupation led by Black West Indian-born students to protest alleged racism at the Montreal university."TIFF 2015 Review: Mina Shum's “Ninth Floor” Shows That Canada Can Be Just As Racist As Any Place Else" '''', September 9, 2015. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landfill Harmonic
''Landfill Harmonic'' (stylized as ''landillharmonic'') is a 2015 documentary film directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley. It stars and tells the story of Paraguayan music teacher Favio Chavez and his Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a children's orchestra in Paraguay which performs with materials recycled from a trash landfill near Asuncion, Paraguay, Asunción. According to The Huffington Post, ''The Huffington Post'', "[t]he film is both an exposé on the harsh conditions of slum life and a commentary on the global threats of consumption and waste". Overview The film details the founding and development of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura. When Luis Szaran, Luis Szarán and Favio Chavez came to Cateura, a landfill located in Asunción, Paraguay, to start a music school, they realized that they had more students than instruments. Thanks to the resourcefulness of Cola, a Cateurian garbage picker, an orchestra came together, now featuring violins, cellos, and other instrume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Hepburn
Kathleen Hepburn is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She first attracted acclaim for her film ''Never Steady, Never Still'', which premiered as a short film in 2015 before being expanded into her feature film debut in 2017."Never Steady, Never Still to hit silver screen" '''', January 11, 2017. The film received eight nominations at the |
Never Steady, Never Still
''Never Steady, Never Still'' is a Canadian drama film, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The full-length List of directorial debuts, directorial debut of Kathleen Hepburn, the film is a family drama which stars Shirley Henderson as Judy, a woman struggling with the advancing symptoms of Parkinson's disease while her son Jamie (Théodore Pellerin) is struggling to come to terms with his identity. The film is an expansion of Hepburn's earlier short film of the same title, which starred Tina Hedman as Judy and Dylan Playfair as Jamie and is partially based on Hepburn's own experiences with her mother's Parkinson's. Plot Judy and her husband Ed live with their 18-year-old son Jamie in a remote, isolated community at the edge of Stuart Lake, British Columbia. Judy has suffered from Parkinson's disease for 19 of the 23 years she and Ed have been married, with Ed acting as her supportive caregiver, helping her to complete basic tasks such as getting dress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connor Gaston
Connor Gaston is a Canadian film director based in British Columbia, known for making films with religious themes. Early life Gaston was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and grew up in Fredericton. His parents are both authors, Bill Gaston and Dede Crane. He moved to Victoria, British Columbia at the age of 10. Career Connor's short film "Bardo" (originally titled "Bardo Light") played at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Connor's short films "Godhead" and "'Til Death" played at various film festivals. Gaston's feature debut, ''The Devout'', premiered on 2015-10-02 at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival (where it was selected as one of ten films in competition for the Busan Bank Award). Awards Gaston's short films "Bardo Light", "'Til Death" , and "Godhead" were all nominated for Leo Awards in the Student Production category. At the 2014 Student Film Festival (organized within the framework of the Montreal World Film F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devout
''The Devout'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Connor Gaston and released in 2015.Barry Hertz"The Devout takes an intriguing premise and does nothing unique with it" ''The Globe and Mail'', April 7, 2017. The film stars Charlie Carrick and Ali Liebert as Darryl and Jan, a devoutly Christian couple who are struggling with the terminal illness of their daughter Abigail (Olivia Martin). After Abigail claims to have a memory of a past life as an astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire, Darryl undergoes a crisis of faith as he tries to investigate whether there is any truth to reincarnation after all. The film premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2015, where Gaston won the festival's B.C. Emerging Filmmaker Award. It won the Leo Award for Best Motion Picture in 2016. It went into general theatrical release in 2017, and was a shortlisted finalist for the John Dunning Discovery Award at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.Norman Wilner"The Canadian Screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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