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Kaveh Nabatian
Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian musician and film director, known as a trumpeter and keyboardist with the Juno Award winning orchestral post-rock band Bell Orchestre. Career As a filmmaker Nabatian is noted for his 2010 short film ''Vapor'', about an older Mexican man who comes to terms with homosexuality. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 31st Genie Awards, and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 13th Jutra Awards, as well as one of TIFF’s Canada's Top Ten films for the year. In 2017, Nabatian directed ''Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything'', a documentary on Leonard Cohen which was broadcast by both CBC Television in English and Ici Radio-Canada Télé in French. In 2019, he was the lead director, alongside Sophie Goyette, Juan Andrés Arango, Sophie Deraspe, Karl Lemieux, Ariane Lorrain and Caroline Monnet, of the experimental anthology film, ''The Seven Last Words (Les sept dernières paroles)'', set to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montréal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language. In 2021, it was spoken at home by 59.1% of the population and 69.2% in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area. Overall, 85.7% of the population of the city of Montreal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Presse (Canadian Newspaper)
, founded in 1884, is a French-language digital newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by an independent nonprofit trust. ' was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered a newspaper of record in Canada. Its Sunday edition was discontinued in 2009, and the weekday edition in 2016. The weekend Saturday printed edition was discontinued on 31 December 2017, turning ' into an entirely digital newspaper. Audience and sections ' is published on its website, .ca, and its mobile app, . The newspaper targets an educated, middle-class readership. Its main competitors are two Montreal print dailies, the tabloid-format ', which aims at a more populist audience, and the more left-leaning broadsheet . ' comprises several sections, dealing individually with arts, sports, business and economy and other themes. Its Saturday print edition (now discontinued) contained over 10 sections. The newspaper's archives from 2000 to 2019 are available on its website. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sin La Habana
''Sin La Habana'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kaveh Nabatian and released in 2020."Four films streaming till Oct. 31 as part of Festival du Nouveau Cinéma" '''', October 22, 2020. The film stars Yonah Acosta as Leonardo, a ballet dancer in who feels stifled and in need of emigration to another country to advance his career. He and his girlfriend Sara (Evelyn O’Farrill) devise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Film Festival Rotterdam
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental filmmaking by showcasing emerging talents and established auteurs. The festival also places a focus on presenting cutting edge media art and arthouse film, with most of the participants in the short film program identified as artists or experimental filmmakers. IFFR also hosts CineMart and BoostNL, for film producers to seek funding. The IFFR logo is a stylized image of a tiger that is loosely based on Leo the Lion (MGM), Leo, the lion in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM logo. History The first festival — then called ''Film International'' — was organized in June 1972 under the leadership of Huub Bals. The festival profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cult MTL
''Cult MTL'' is an English language arts, culture and news website and monthly print publication, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its first print edition appeared on 7 September 2012. It was created only a few months after Montreal's last English-language alternative weekly, ''Montreal Mirror'', was unceremoniously closed by its parent company, Quebecor. The founding editors of ''Cult MTL'' were also involved with the ''Mirror''. In August 2013 the print version of the magazine was started. See also *List of magazines in Canada This is a list of magazines published in Canada. References Canada * Magazines A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are ge ... References External links * 2012 establishments in Quebec Cultural magazines Independent magazines Magazines established in 2012 Magazines published in Montreal Monthly magazines published in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String quartet, String Quartet". Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their Eszterháza Castle. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe. He was Haydn and Mozart, a friend and mentor of Mozart, Beethoven and his contemporaries#Joseph Haydn, a tutor of Beethoven, and the elder brother of composer Michael Haydn. Biography Early life Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, Rohrau, Habsburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Monnet
Caroline "Coco" Monnet is an Algonquin French Canadian contemporary artist and filmmaker known for her work in sculpture, installation, and film. Early life and education Monnet is a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist and filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She grew up between the Celtic coasts of France in Douarnenez and the Algonquin territory of Outaouais, Québec, and much of her work explores her Algonquin (Quebec) and French (France) dual heritage. She is the younger sister of artist and playwright Émilie Monnet. Monnet has B.A in communications and sociology from the University of Ottawa and has studied at the University of Granada in Spain. She is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents and TIFF Talent Lab 2016. Career Monnet began her film career making short films. In 2010, Caroline Monnet released the short film ''Warchild'', which made its debut at the Présence Authochtone Montréal First Peoples' Festival in August 2011. In 2012, Monnet released ''Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Lemieux
Karl Lemieux is a Canadian film director best known for his collaborations with Montreal-based post rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor and his 2016 film '' Shambles''. Biography Karl Lemieux joined Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2010 – when the band came back after a seven-year hiatus – providing film projections shown at live concerts. Those projections largely consist of expressionist tapes shot at empty roads in Canada. He has also designed video projections for the 2012–2013 El Camino Tour by The Black Keys. In 2015, together with his bandmate David Bryant, Lemieux co-directed the experimental documentary short '' Quiet Zone'' about people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity living in the United States National Radio Quiet Zone in West Virginia. The film premiered in January 2015 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam where it was a part of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2015. At the 4th Canadian Screen Awards the film was nominated for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Deraspe
Sophie Deraspe (born October 27, 1973) is a Canadian director, scenarist, director of photography and producer. Prominent in new Quebec cinema, she is known for a 2015 documentary ''The Amina Profile'', an exploration of the Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari hoax of 2011. She had previously written and directed the narrative feature films ''Missing Victor Pellerin'' () in 2006, ''Vital Signs'' () in 2009, ''The Wolves'' () in 2015, In 2019 she wrote, directed and shot ''Antigone'', inspired by the 2008 death of Fredy Villanueva in Montreal and loosely adapting the play by Sophocles, saying the story of a woman who defies the law for something greater resonated with her, and she wished to update it. The film, starring Nahéma Ricci, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and won the festival's award for Best Canadian Film. ''Antigone'' was chosen to represent Canada in the 2019 Oscars race. Nominated in 15 categories, her first TV series Dark Soul (Bête noire) w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Andrés Arango
Juan Andrés Arango García (born September 19, 1976) is a Colombian-Canadian film director."Juan Andres Arango, Director of Colombian Oscar Entry, Preps ‘X Quinientos’" '''', December 3, 2012. His debut feature film, '''', premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as the Colombian entry f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Goyette
Sophie Goyette is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2012 short film '' The Near Future (Le futur proche)'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 15th Jutra Awards. She was also a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 32nd Genie Awards for ''La Ronde'', which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2011. Her debut feature film, '' Still Night, Still Light (Mes nuits feront écho)'', was released in 2016, and was a nominee for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2017. For her work on the film, Goyette was awarded the Bright Futures Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2019 she was one of seven directors, alongside Kaveh Nabatian, Juan Andrés Arango, Sophie Deraspe, Karl Lemieux, Ariane Lorrain and Caroline Monnet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ici Radio-Canada
ICI or Ici may refer to: Companies and organisations * ICI Homes, builder, Florida. US * Former UK Imperial Chemical Industries ** ICI Australia, later Orica * Independent Curators International, New York City, US * Indian Concrete Institute * Indian Citation Index *, Goutte d'Or district, Paris, France * Institute of Cultural Inquiry, US art sponsor * International Colonial Institute, Brussels, Belgium * International Compact with Iraq, 2007 Iraq-UN * Investment Company Institute The Investment Company Institute (ICI) is a global association of regulated funds, including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds and unit investment trusts in the United States, and similar funds offered to investors in jurisd ..., US * A Woman's Place (bookstore), or Information Center Incorporate Media * ''Ici'' (magazine) (in French), Montreal, Canada * Ici Radio-Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation service from 2013 * ICI (TV channel) (International Channel/Canal Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
