David Wharnsby

	David Wharnsby David Wharnsby (born June 20, 1967) is a Canadian film editor. He was married to director and actress Sarah Polley. Life and career Wharnsby was born in Waterloo, Ontario. He attended Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School. Some of Wharnsby's numerous credits include; the CBC's miniseries ''Northern Town'', directed by Gary Burns; '' At The Hotel'', directed by Ken Finkleman; TIFF top ten films, ''I, Claudia'', by Chris Abraham; ''The Uncles'' by Jim Allodi; Ken Finkleman's '' The Newsroom'' and '' Foreign Objects''; ''I Shout Love'' by Sarah Polley; Atom Egoyan's ''Sarabande''; ''The Four Seasons'' and ''Don Giovanni Unmasked'' by Barbara Willis Sweete; David Weaver's ''Siblings'' and '' Century Hotel''; and ''Three Stories'' by Semi Chellas. His television directing credits include one episode of ''Billable Hours'' ("Killer Comma"), two episodes of ''Being Erica'' ("This Be the Verse" and "The Unkindest Cut") and three episodes of ''Saving Hope''. Wharnsby rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Waterloo, Ontario Waterloo is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo (formerly Waterloo County, Ontario, Waterloo County). Waterloo is situated about west-southwest of Toronto. Due to the close proximity of the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener to Waterloo, the two together are often referred to as "Kitchener–Waterloo", "K-W" or "The Twin Cities". While several unsuccessful attempts to combine the municipalities of Kitchener and Waterloo have been made, following the 1973 establishment of the Region of Waterloo, less motivation to do so existed, and as a result, Waterloo remains an independent city. At the time of the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census, the population of Waterloo was 121,436. History Indigenous peoples and settlement According to the city, Indigenous peoples in Canada, indigenous peoples lived in its area, including the Haudenosaunee, Iroquois, Anishinaabe and Neutral Nation. After the end of the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette). Genie Award candidates were selected from submissions made by the owners of Canadian films or their representatives, based on the criteria laid out in the ''Genie Rules and Regulations'' booklet which is distributed to Academy members and industry members. Peer-group juries, assembled from volunteer members of the Academy, meet to screen the submissions and select a group of nominees. Academy members then vote on these nominations. In 2012, the Academy announced that the Genies would merge with its sister presentation for English-language television, the Gemini Awards, to form a new award presentation known as the Canadian Screen Awards. Broadcasting The Genie Awards were originally aire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Perfect Pie (film) ''Perfect Pie'' is a 2002 Canadian film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete from a script by Judith Thompson. The screenplay was based on Thompson's play of the same name and stars Wendy Crewson, Barbara Williams, Alison Pill, and Rachel McAdams. The film concerns the friendship of childhood best friends Patsy Willets and Marie Beck who reunite after a separation of 30 years. The film premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. Summary Famed opera singer Francesca Prine, born Marie Beck, ( Barbara Williams) receives an invitation to return to her hometown of Marmora, Ontario and sing in a charity concert from her former best friend Patsy Willets (Wendy Crewson). The two friends have not seen each other in thirty years after a train accident injured them both. In flashbacks we see Marie and Patsy's friendship evolve. As a child Marie is bullied but is nevertheless befriended by Patsy who frequently invites her to her home. Patsy notices that Marie is poor and is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Three Stories From The End Of Everything ''Three Stories from the End of Everything'' is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Semi Chellas and released in 2000. The film centres on three characters who are coping with unrequited or lost love. Its cast included Soo Garay, John Robinson, Lucas Denton and Kristen Ross. The film premiered on September 9, 2000, at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival. It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002. In advance of the Genie Award ceremony on February 7, it was screened at the Bloor Cinema on January 27, as the opening film to a screening of '' Treed Murray''."Watch these five little Genies, all in a row". ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ...'', January 11, 2002. References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Great Performances ''Great Performances'' is a television anthology series dedicated to the performing arts; the banner has been used to televise theatrical performances such as plays, musicals, opera, ballet, concerts, as well as occasional documentaries. It is produced by the PBS member station WNET in New York City (originally in conjunction with KQED/San Francisco, WTTW/Chicago, Maryland Public Television, South Carolina ETV and KERA-TV/ Dallas/Fort Worth). The series is the longest-running performing arts anthology on television and has won 29 Primetime Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society. History ''Great Performances predecessor, ''New York Playhouse'', premiered on October 7, 1972, with a production of ''Antigone''. In 1973, Exxon and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting provided grants to create ''Theater in America'', which reran the ''New York Playhouse'' and some ''NET Playhouse'' product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Holier It Gets ''The Holier It Gets'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jennifer Baichwal and released in 2000. The film is a personal document of Baichwal and her family on a pilgrimage to India, honouring their father Krishna's wishes to have his ashes scattered at the source of the Ganges following his death.Michael D. Reid, "Portrait of a Journey: Documentary chronicles family's pilgrimage to India to release father's ashes". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', April 18, 2001. It was screened at the 2000 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary. It was distributed primarily on television, airing as an episode of TVOntario's documentary series '' The View from Here'' in 2000 and Knowledge Network's ''Perspectives'' in 2001. Following its television broadcast, it was a nominee for the Donald Brittain Award at the 15th Gemini Awards, as well as winning the awards for Best Direction in a Documentary Program or Series ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Preludes (film Series) ''Preludes'' is a Canadian short film series, which premiered in 2000. Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in 2000, the series consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival,Marc Glassman, "Preludes". '' Take One'', Vol. 30 (Winter 2001). pp. 43-44. and each film screened as a prelude to a feature film in the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival program. The most successful film in the series was Guy Maddin's ''The Heart of the World'', which won numerous awards including the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 22nd Genie Awards. David Cronenberg's entry, ''Camera'', was also a Genie nominee in the same category. The full ''Preludes'' program was subsequently screened on the web, on a platform funded by Bell Canada.Peter Howell, "Downstreaming without a paddle ; Fest shorts on the Web ain't nothing like the real thing". ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	The Life Of Paul Bowles ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]