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''Backspot'' is a 2023 film directed by D. W. Waterson in their feature-length directorial debut and stars Devery Jacobs, Kudakwashe Rutendo, and Evan Rachel Wood. Jacobs also serves as producer, along with Waterson, through their Night is Y production company. The film premiered in the Discovery program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Synopsis The plot follows two cheerleaders named Riley (Jacobs) and Amanda (Rutendo) as they navigate the world of professional cheerleading. Cast *Noa DiBerto as Rachel *Devery Jacobs as Riley * Kudakwashe Rutendo as Amanda *Evan Rachel Wood as Eileen McNamara *Thomas Antony Olajide *Oluniké Adeliyi *Wendy Crewson *Shannyn Sossamon *Adrianna Di Liello as Banigan *Marlee Sansom as Laila Production The project is produced Page Boy Productions, Night is Y, and Prospero Pictures. It was written by Joanne Sarazen, based on a story by Waterson. Elliot Page, Matthew Jordan Smith, John Davidson, and Katisha Shaw executive produc ...
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Kudakwashe Rutendo
Kudakwashe Rutendo is a Canadian actress, most noted for her starring role as Amanda in the 2023 film ''Backspot''. Born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised in Fort McMurray,Vincent McDermott"Fort McMurray-raised actress Kudakwashe Rutendo one of TIFF's Rising Stars" ''Fort McMurray Today'', September 14, 2023. she attended the University of Toronto, studying English, philosophy and classics while pursuing acting classes as a secondary pursuit. She secured a contract with an agent in March 2020 just days before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the industry, and had acting roles in the television series ''Fear Thy Roommate'', the short films ''The Second Hand'' and ''Love Bites'', and the television films ''Bad Influence'' and ''Giving Hope: The Ni'cola Mitchell Story'', before being cast in ''Backspot''. ''Backspot'' premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, where she was named one of the festival's Rising Stars. She appeared in the 2024 edition of '' Canada Reads'' ...
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2023 Toronto International Film Festival
The 48th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 7 to 17, 2023.Victoria Ahearn"TIFF reveals new programmers and other 2023 festival details" '' Playback'', April 20, 2023. The most noted change from past years was that the Contemporary World Cinema stream was renamed Centrepiece. The festival also announced some changes to its programming team for the 2023 festival, following the retirement of Steve Gravestock at the end of 2022 and the death of Ravi Srinivasan in early 2023. Noted changes included Norman Wilner taking over Gravestock's role as programmer of Canadian films, and June Kim succeeding Srinivasan as programmer for South Asian films. The festival indicated that with the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival having returned to more normal attendance figures, the event would take place exclusively in-person, ending the online platform that had been offered since the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.Jeremy Kay"Taika Waititi’s ‘Ne ...
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Martin Katz (producer)
Martin F. Katz is a Canadian film and television producer and media executive. He is president of the production firm Prospero Pictures, and a former president of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television."Mystery czar meets his clients". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 25, 2006."Chair of Canadian film/TV academy is sweet on calling awards ‘the Candys’"
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Prior to establishing Prospero Pictures, Katz was a producer with Atlantis Entertainmen ...
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Collider (website)
''Collider'' is an entertainment website and digital video production company, with a focus on the film industry, television series, and video games. ''Collider'' focuses on entertainment news, analysis, and commentary, along with original features. The website primarily covers film and television news, with complementary film and television reviews and editorials. , ''Collider'' YouTube channel had 627,000 subscribers and over 550,000,000 cumulative views. Former extensions of the channel include ''Movie Talk'', ''Movie Trivia Schmoedown'', ''Heroes'', ''Jedi Council'', ''Behind the Scenes & Bloopers'', and ''Collider News''. The channel had also branched out and produced content for other outlets, such as ''Awesometacular with Jeremy Jahns'' for go90. Extensions of the main YouTube channel include ''Collider'' Podcasts (including a period named under ''Collider'' Live), ''Collider'' Interviews (formerly ''Collider'' Quick), ''Collider'' Games (later renamed Revog and presumab ...
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2023 LGBT-related Films
3 (three) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic numerals, Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. ...
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2023 Drama Films
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ...
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Canadian Sports Drama Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ...
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Canadian LGBT-related Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ...
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2023 Films
2023 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films : Events Scheduled award ceremonies Film festivals 2023 films By country/region * List of American films of 2023 * List of British films of 2023 * List of French films of 2023 * List of German films of 2023 * List of Indian films of 2023 * List of Hong Kong films of 2023 * List of Japanese films of 2023 * List of South Korean films of 2023 * List of Spanish films of 2023 By genre/medium * List of action films of 2023 * List of animated feature films of 2023 * List of avant-garde films of 2023 * List of crime films of 2023 * List of comedy films of 2023 * List of drama films of 2023 * List of horror films of 2023 * List of science fiction films of 2023 * List of thriller films of 2023 Deaths References {{DEFAULTSORT:2023 in film 2023 Events Predicted and scheduled even ...
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Cheerleading Films
Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to entertain the audience, or for competition. Cheerleading routines typically range anywhere from one to three minutes, and contain components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting. Modern cheerleading is very closely associated with American football and basketball. Sports such as association football (soccer), ice hockey, volleyball, baseball, and wrestling will sometimes sponsor cheerleading squads. The ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2007 was the first international cricket event to have cheerleaders. The Florida Marlins were the first Major League Baseball team to have a cheerleading team. Cheerleading originated as an all-male activity in the United States, and remains predominantly in America, with an e ...
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