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2018 Vancouver International Film Festival
The 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) took place from September 27 to October 12, 2018. Awards The festival award winners were announced on October 12. '''', October 12, 2018. Programmes Galas *'''' — |
The Hummingbird Project
''The Hummingbird Project'' is a 2018 thriller drama film about high-frequency trading and ultra-low latency direct market access, written and directed by Kim Nguyen produced by Pierre Even at Item 7. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Mando, Sarah Goldberg, and Salma Hayek. It had its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018. It was released in the United States on March 15, 2019, by The Orchard and was released on March 22, 2019, in Canada by Elevation Pictures. Plot The film opens as stockbroker Vincent Zaleski pitches Bryan Taylor on investing in a fiberoptic cable from Kansas electronic exchange to the New York Stock Exchange in order to front run orders in a new high-frequency trading (HFT) operation. Taylor buys into the idea. Meanwhile, Vincent and his cousin Anton Zaleski are still employed by Eva Torres, where Anton programs trading software. Eva is also working on several ideas for HFT. Soon enough, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dava Whisenant , American pop singer
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Drew Lint
Drew Lint (born 1987) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, whose debut feature film '' M/M'' debuted at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival. Originally from Dunnville, Ontario, he studied film production at Ryerson University. He directed a number of short films, including ''Parallel Lines'' (2008), ''Collected Memories'' (2008), ''Harvest'' (2009) and ''Mirrors'' (2012), before moving to Berlin, Germany in 2013. His 2014 short film ''Rough Trade'' was his international breakthrough, premiering at Slamdance in 2014. Lint was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award in 2018,Connie Thiessen"DGC’s list of top new Canadian filmmakers to watch" ''Broadcast Dialogue'', September 10, 2018. and was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's One to Watch Award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018 The nominations for the 19th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2018, were announced on December 12, 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Devlin
Seán Yap Sei-Been Devlin (叶 世民) is a Canadian comedian and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is most noted for his 2018 film '' When the Storm Fades'', for which he won the Emerging Canadian Director award at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival, and his 2021 comedy album ''Airports, Animals'', for which he was a Juno Award nominee for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022. He was previously known as the creator of Shit Harper Did, a satirical website critical of the government of Stephen Harper, in the early 2010s. ''Airports, Animals'' was released by Arts & Crafts Productions in 2021 as the label's first-ever comedy album. He was featured in a third-season episode of '' The New Wave of Standup''. His second feature film, '' Asog'', debuted at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.Jason P. Frank"Tribeca Film Festival Is What Baking Did for Waitress" ''Vulture A vulture is a bird of prey that scavenges on carrion. There are 23 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Storm Fades
''When the Storm Fades'' is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Seán Devlin and released in 2018."This ‘Docudramedy’ Finds Laughs in the Horror of Climate Change" '''', October 4, 2018. Described by Devlin as a "docudramedy" because it blends aspects of both and , the film is set in the |
Jérémy Comte
Jérémy Comte is a Canadian film director from Quebec. He is best known for his 2018 short film '' Fauve'' which has won a Special Jury Prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for 91st Academy Awards."Sundance : Jérémy Comte gagne un prix spécial du jury" '' La Tribune'', January 24, 2018. Life and career Comte grew up in , . He g ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fauve (film)
''Fauve'' is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Jérémy Comte and released in 2018."Aspen Shortsfest: Writer-director Jérémy Comte on making ‘Fauve’" '''', April 5, 2018. The film centres on two boys (Félix Grenier and Alexandre Perreault) looking for adventure near an , who are soon drawn into a dangerous situation as their power game spins out of control. The film was shot near |
Danae Elon
Danae Elon ( he, דנאי אילון; born December 23, 1970), is an Israeli documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Montreal Quebec. Biography Danae Elon was born in Jerusalem. She is the daughter of journalist and author Amos Elon, and Beth Elon. Elon graduated from New York University in 1995. Film career In 2009 she received the Guggenheim fellowship in the category of film. Her work has often centered around Jerusalem and the Palestinian struggle. ''Wild Mint'', which she directed and produced, and ''Cut'' which she photographed and co-produced were the first films she attempted to reconcile state ideology and reality. In 2001 Elon produced her first critically acclaimed film ''Another Road Home'' which received a grant from the Sundance Institute Documentary Program in 2003. The film premiered at the 2004 Tribeca film festival and was showcased in over 20 international film festivals, including IDFA, Los Angeles Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival, Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sister's Song
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bojan Bodružić
Bojan (Serbian Cyrillic and Macedonian: Бојан; Ukrainian, Russian and Bulgarian Cyrillic: Боян, transcribed ''Boyan'') is a Slavic given name, derived from the Slavic noun ''boj'' "battle." The ending ''-an'' is a suffix frequently found in anthroponyms of Slavic origin. The feminine variant is Bojana. The name is recorded in historical sources among Serbs, Bulgarians, Czechs, Poles, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians, Ukrainians and Russians. In Slovenia, it is the 18th most popular name for males, as of 2010. (in Slovenian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. The name Bojan may refer to: * Bojan Bogdanovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Museum Of Forgotten Triumphs
''The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Bojan Bodružić and released in 2018.Sabrina Furminger"Vancouver filmmaker revisits family he left behind in Sarajevo" ''Vancouver Courier'', April 17, 2019. The film centres on interviews between Bodružić, a Bosnian-born filmmaker who came to Canada with his parents as refugees from the Bosnian War in the 1990s, and his grandparents, who never left Sarajevo, about their experiences living through the war. The film took 15 years to make, beginning with Bodružić's first trip back to Sarajevo after the war in the early 2000s. The film premiered on September 30, 2018 at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian Documentary. It received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018.Kelly Townsend"Roads in February leads Vancouver critics’ nominations" ''Playback Playback or P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda De Pencier
Miranda de Pencier (born August 20, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director, producer, and actress. She is most noted for her 2011 film '' Throat Song'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards. Career She began her career as an actress, most notably playing Josie Pye in the 1985 telemovie ''Anne of Green Gables'' and its sequels. She also had a recurring role on '' Street Legal'' in the 1989–90 season as Jennifer Winston, a college student who was dating Chuck Tchobanian, and appeared in the film ''The Myth of the Male Orgasm'' and on stage in Canadian productions of ''Les Misérables'' and ''Aspects of Love''. In the late 1990s she began producing, first in theatre before moving into film production. Through her production company, Northwood Entertainment, she first produced the 2005 film ''Cake''. Her subsequent credits as a producer have included the films ''Pu-239'', ''Adam'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
