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Disappearance At Clifton Hill
''Disappearance at Clifton Hill'' (initially known as ''Clifton Hill'') is a 2019 Canadian thriller film, directed by Albert Shin. The film stars Tuppence Middleton as Abby, a young woman who returns home to Niagara Falls, Ontario, when she inherits a family-owned motel in the city's Clifton Hill tourist district following her mother's death, and becomes obsessed with reconstructing inchoate childhood memories of witnessing a kidnapping. The film's cast also includes Hannah Gross, Marie-Josée Croze, Andy McQueen, Noah Reid, Dan Lett, Aaron Poole, Connor Jessup, Elizabeth Saunders, and Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, as well as filmmaker David Cronenberg in a rare acting appearance as a local historian and podcaster. The film was nominated for four Canadian Screen Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for McQueen. Plot Fishing and picnicking with her family near their home at Niagara Falls, seven-year-old Abby sees a young boy, one eye covered by a bloody bandage, hiding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Shin
Albert Shin is a Canadian filmmaker, best known for his critically acclaimed Canadian Screen Award-nominated films ''In Her Place'' (2014) and ''Disappearance at Clifton Hill'' (2019). He works frequently with collaborator Igor Drljaca. Early life Shin was born in Canada and raised in Newmarket, Ontario. His parents are of South Korean descent. Shin later studied film production at York University, where he created several short films. Career Before making the leap into features, Shin directed the short film ''Kai's Place'', and the short-run television series ''In Counseling''. His feature directorial debut, ''Point Traverse'', was released in 2009. The microbudget film screened at several film festivals, including the Wisconsin Film Festival. ''In Her Place'' His second feature film was released in 2014; it was acclaimed by critics and screened at festivals around the world. For his work on ''In Her Place'', Shin won several awards, and garnered several Canadian Screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy McQueen
Andy McQueen (born, March 2, 1991) is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance in the 2019 film '' Disappearance at Clifton Hill'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, and his recurring role as Detective Malik Abed in the television series ''Coroner''. He also appeared in the films ''Brown Girl Begins'' (2017), ''Fahrenheit 451'' (2018), ''Books of Blood'' (2020), '' Sugar Daddy'' (2020), ''Little Orphans'' (2020) and ''I Like Movies'' (2022), in the television series ''The Handmaid's Tale'', '' Jack Ryan'', ''The Girlfriend Experience'', ''Station Eleven'' and '' Mrs. Davis'', and on stage in the Toronto production of ''Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train''. Of Indo-Guyanese descent, he is an alumnus of the Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre.Margaret DeRosia"Spotlight on Actors: Andy McQueen" Canadian Film Centre The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is a charitable organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IFC Films
IFC Films is an American film production and distribution company based in New York. It is an offshoot of IFC owned by AMC Networks. It distributes mainly independent films under its own name, select foreign films and documentaries under its Sundance Selects label and genre films under its IFC Midnight label. It operates the IFC Center. History The IFC Films division has a predecessor film label, Next Wave Films, designed to release movies, which was in operation from 1997 to 2002, when it was shut down and folded into IFC themselves. IFC also launched a film company, IFC Productions, which set up operation in March 1997 to produce their own feature film projects. On January 18, 1999, IFC launched a film label Agenda 2000, which set up their own film projects, which have their world premiere on IFC. On September 26, 2000, IFC launched its own feature film unit, branded IFC Films, to be headed by Bob Berney, who went on to have jobs at Newmarket Films, and later founder of Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now (newspaper)
''Now'' (styled as ''NOW''), also known as ''NOW Magazine'' is an online publication based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Throughout most of its existence, ''Now'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper. Physical publication of ''Now'' was suspended in August 2022, and there are no current plans to resume printed publication. Publication history ''Now'' was first published on September 10, 1981, by Michael Hollett and Alice Klein."Publisher of Toronto's iconic NOW Magazine files for bankruptcy." ''blogTO'', April 1, 2022. ''NOW'' is an alternative weekly that covers news, culture, arts, and entertainment. In its printed incarnation, ''NOW'' was published 52 times a year and could be picked up in Toronto subway stations, cafes, variety st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Johnson (actor)
Eric Johann Johnson (born August 7, 1979) is a Canadian actor known for playing Flash Gordon on the eponymous 2007–2008 television series, Whitney Fordman on the superhero series '' Smallville'', Detective Luke Callaghan on the police drama ''Rookie Blue'', and Jack Hyde in the ''Fifty Shades'' film series. Since 2022, he has played a misogynist corrupt sheriff in the HBO Max horror series '' Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin''. Career Johnson began his career acting at the age of nine, when his parents enrolled him in Stage Polaris, a theater company in Edmonton. Johnson played the younger version of Brad Pitt's character in 1994 film '' Legends of the Fall''. In Canada, Johnson was the lead in an award-winning film titled ''Scorn''. His break-out role came in 2001, as football jock and Clark Kent rival Whitney Fordman in '' Smallville''. In 2004, Johnson played the anti-Mormon son, Joshua Steed, in ''The Work and the Glory'' and later its sequels. A few years later, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award For Best Supporting Actor
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role to the best performance by a supporting actor in a Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . The award was first presented in 1970 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year. From 1980 until 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; since 2013, it has been presented as part of the new Canadian Screen Awards. In August 2022, the Academy announced that it will discontinue its past practice of presenting gendered awards for film and television actors and actresses; beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented, with eight nominees per category instead of five.Joseph Pugh"C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the awards recognize excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television (English-language) and film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers, artists, and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Oscars and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia, the IFTA Awards in Ireland, the César Awards in France and the Goya Awards in Spain. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the ''Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's " newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, '' The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of ''The Toronto Mail'' and the ''Toronto Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the paper to the Thomson Corporation in 1980. In 2001, the paper merged with broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos (born 1978) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, director, and musician."Max Velocity" . '''', September 4, 2013. Career McCabe-Lokos has appeared in '''', '' Lars and the Real Girl'', '''', ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Saunders
Elizabeth Saunders is a British-Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Donna in the American television series ''From'' (2022). She is credited for more than 60 acting roles including in the ''The Boondock Saints'' (1999), '' Slings and Arrows'' (2005), '' IT'' (2017), ''Alias Grace'' (2017), ''When hope calls ''When Hope Calls'' is an American drama television series. The series is a spin-off of Hallmark Channel's ''When Calls the Heart'', which is based on the ''Canadian West'' book series by Janette Oke. It premiered on August 30, 2019 as the inau ... ''(2019) and ''Clarice'' (2021). References External links * British film actresses Living people British actresses 20th-century British actresses 21st-century British actresses {{UK-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connor Jessup
Connor William Jessup (born June 23, 1994) is a Canadian actor, writer, and director. He is known for his roles as Ben Mason on the TNT science fiction television series '' Falling Skies'' (2011–2015), Taylor Blaine and Coy Henson in the ABC anthology series '' American Crime'' (2016–2017), and Tyler Locke in the Netflix series ''Locke & Key'' (2020–2022). He has also starred in feature films, most notably in the award-winning '' Blackbird'' (2012) and '' Closet Monster'' (2015). Career Acting Jessup began acting at the age of 11 as a child actor. After various early jobs, including a role in a stage adaptation of ''The Full Monty'', Jessup got a lead role in the children's television series ''The Saddle Club'', for which he is also credited with conceptualizing the plot of one episode. He served as executive producer for the independent film ''Amy George'', which played at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2011, Jessup was cast as a main character in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
