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Tamara Podemski
Tamara Podemski (born October 16, 1977) is a Canadian film and television actress and writer.Rick Garrick"Indigenous multidisciplinary artist to host 13th Annual Outside Looking In Gala in Toronto this Spring" ''Anishinabek News'', March 9, 2020. She is known for her supporting role as Alison Trent in the television series '' Coroner'', for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. Early life Podemski was raised in Toronto where she attended Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts. Her father is an Israeli Jew from Kfar Saba, and her mother is an Anishinaabe from the Muscowpetung band of First Nations people in Saskatchewan. Her paternal grandparents were from Poland, and moved to Canada after World War II. Her sisters, Jennifer Podemski and Sarah Podemski are also actors. All three sisters appear together in the FX series ''Reservation Dogs''.A. R. Wilso"Coroner: Tamara Podemski on Alisonâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23rd Independent Spirit Awards
The 23rd Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2007, were announced on February 23, 2008. It was hosted by Rainn Wilson. Winners and nominees Films with multiple nominations and awards Special awards John Cassavetes Award ''August Evening'' *''Owl and the Sparrow'' *'' The Pool'' *'' Quiet City'' *''Shotgun Stories'' Truer Than Fiction Award ''The Unforeseen'' *''Helvetica'' *''Running Stumbled'' Producers Award Neil Kopp – '' Paranoid Park'' and ''Old Joy'' *Alexis Ferris – ''Cthulhu'' and ''Police Beat'' *Anne Clements – ''Ping Pong Playa'' and ''Quinceañera'' Someone to Watch Award Ramin Bahrani – ''Chop Shop'' *Ronald Bronstein – '' Frownland'' *Lee Isaac Chung – ''Munyurangabo'' Robert Altman Award (*Note: This award is given to its director, casting director, and ensemble cast) *''I'm Not There'' (Todd Haynes, Laura Rosenthal, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cracked (Canadian TV Series)
''Cracked'' is a Canadian police crime drama television series which aired from January 8 to November 25, 2013 on CBC Television. The series was created by writer Tracey Forbes and Toronto Emergency Task Force officer Calum de Hartog, and was executive produced by Peter Raymont and Janice Dawe of White Pine Pictures. It premiered on January 8, 2013, and aired new episodes through November 25, 2013. Premise ''Cracked'' follows the newly formed Psych Crimes Unit within a Canadian police department led by experienced ETS officer Detective Aidan Black (David Sutcliffe). This unique team of police officers and psychiatrists respond to bizarre and frightening crises and solve compelling cases involving emotionally disturbed criminals, victims and witnesses. Cast * David Sutcliffe as Detective Aidan Black, who was involved in two fatal shootings that were deemed clean and justifiable in the following inquiries, after multiple psych evaluations, which were inconclusive but did show sympt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartland (Canadian TV Series)
''Heartland'' is a Canadian family comedy-drama television series which debuted in Canada on CBC on October 14, 2007. The series is based on the ''Heartland'' book series by Lauren Brooke and follows Amy Fleming and her older sister Louise "Lou" Fleming on their Alberta-based family ranch, 'Heartland', where they live with their widowed grandfather Jack Bartlett, their father Tim Fleming and hired farmhand Ty Borden. While experiencing the highs and lows of life on the ranch, the family bonds and grows closer. With the airing of its 139th episode on March 29, 2015, ''Heartland'' surpassed '' Street Legal'' as the longest-running one-hour scripted drama in Canadian television history. On June 2, 2021, CBC renewed the series for a fifteenth ten-episode season. The show has been picked up for a Season 16 of 15 episodes on June 1, 2022 and started production on the same day, and it premiered on October 2, 2022 in Canada. In the United States, the series has wide distribution thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Amsterdam (2008 TV Series)
''New Amsterdam'' is an American television drama which aired for eight episodes in 2008 on Fox. The series starred Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as "John Amsterdam" (real name Johann van der Zee), an immortal Dutch man born in 1607, who has lived in New York City on and off since he was 14 years old, and who is a homicide detective in the present day. The series was nominated for an Emmy for Main Title Design. Premise and plot John Amsterdam (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is an NYPD homicide detective who is 400 years old, but has the appearance of a 35-year-old. He was a Dutch soldier in Manhattan in the year 1642, when he stepped in front of a sword to save the life of a Native American girl during the massacre of her tribe. The girl in turn rescued Amsterdam by weaving a spell that conferred immortality upon him. It was also prophesied that he would not age until he finds his one true love, and only then will he become whole and ready for mortality. Flashbacks in different episodes of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabbit Fall
''Rabbit Fall'' is a Canadian television supernatural drama series, which aired on Space, APTN and Saskatchewan Communications Network. The series stars Andrea Menard as Tara Wheaton, a police officer of MĂ©tis descent who takes a job in Rabbit Fall, a remote town in northern Saskatchewan with a history of unexplained events; she is reluctant to accept the community's supernatural explanations for the events, but finds that the events challenge her sense of rationality.Karen Longwell, "Duck Lake is on the air: Some scenes of a new TV crime drama series shot in Duck Lake". ''Prince Albert Daily Herald'', July 18, 2007. The series was shot primarily in the community of Duck Lake, Saskatchewan. The show's cast also includes Kevin Jubinville, Peter Stebbings, Peter Kelly Gaudreault, Tinsel Korey, Patrick Bird, Tamara Podemski and Booth Savage. Produced by Angel Entertainment, the series premiered in 2007 with a six-episode first season which aired solely on APTN. Its eight-episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ready Or Not (Canadian TV Series)
''Ready or Not'' is a Canadian teen drama television series that aired on the Showtime Movie Channel (April 3, 1993 – 1997) and later on The Disney Channel (April 4, 1996''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 3 (typo in magazine: should be "no. 2"), April/May 1996: pp. 5, 28, 39. – 2000) and Global Television Network for five seasons and 65 episodes between 1993 and 1997 in both Canada and the United States. The show centred on two adolescent girls and their friendship and coming-of-age, addressing difficult topics like divorce, racism, consent, and body image. In June 2021, it was announced the show is in preliminary development for a reboot series. (time index 08:18) Premise The program follows two teenage girls in the suburbs of Toronto, best friends Amanda Zimm and Elizabeth "Busy" Ramone, throughout life's struggles as well as showcasing the different households they grew up in. Amanda is a Jewish Canadian only child raised by liberal former hippie parents includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rez
''The Rez'' is a Canadian drama television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1996 to 1998. Bruce McDonald and Norman Jewison were executive producers of the series, which chronicled life in an Ojibway community. The series is based on the short story collection '' Dance Me Outside'' by W. P. Kinsella and its 1994 film adaptation by McDonald. It was cancelled after two seasons. Cast * Ryan Rajendra Black - Silas Crow *Jennifer Podemski - Sadie Maracle *Darrell Dennis - Frank Fencepost * Tamara Podemski - Lucy Pegahmagabow * Elaine Miles - Mad Etta (season 2) *Gary Farmer - Chief Tom * Adam Beach - (played Frank Fencepost in ''Dance Me Outside'', but was recast in the series as "Charlie") *Kari Matchett- Tanya Nanibush * Patricia Collins - Eleanor Nanibush *Herbie Barnes - Joseph Crow *Monique Mojica - Mad Etta (Season 1) *Shirley Cheechoo - Simone Crow Production Bruce McDonald was executive producer with Norman Jewison. Most of the characters were based on W. P. Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guest Of Honour (2019 Film)
''Guest of Honour'' is a 2019 Canadian drama film, written, directed, and produced by Atom Egoyan. It stars David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, Rossif Sutherland, Alexandre Bourgeois, Arsinée Khanjian and Luke Wilson. The film had its world premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2019. It was released on July 10, 2020, by Elevation Pictures. Synopsis Veronica is a talented young high school music teacher who is accused of abusing her position of authority by sexually abusing one of her students. Veronica rebuffs her father Jim's attempts to secure her early release from prison, as she feels she should be punished for something else she did in her past. Because of Veronica's refusal to let him help her, Jim finds himself unable to emotionally support his daughter, and begins to take out his frustrations via his work as a food inspector. Plot Similar to many of Egoyan's other films, ''Guest of Honour'' features a narrative structure that alternat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Saw It Coming
''Never Saw It Coming'' is a 2017 Canadian thriller film directed by Gail Harvey and starring Emily Hampshire, Eric Roberts, Katie Boland, Shaun Benson, Tamara Podemski and Nick Serino. It is based on the 2013 novel by Linwood Barclay, who also wrote the screenplay. Cast Production Principal photography began in Greater Sudbury in March 2017. Filming officially wrapped in April that same year. Release The film made its world premiere at the Whistler Film Festival on December 1, 2017. Reception Barry Hertz of ''The Globe and Mail'' awarded the film one and a half stars out of four and wrote, "Perhaps director Gail Harvey is the true author of this misfortune, with its rushed scenes and staging that only highlights, rather than deflects, the film's made-for-TV budget." Norman Wilner of '' Now'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Adapted by Linwood Barclay from his own novel, it’s a Fargo-like swirl of misunderstandings, betrayals and reversals of fortune, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lesser Blessed
''The Lesser Blessed'' is a Canadian drama film, released in 2012. , October 22, 2012. The film was written and directed by and is based on the novel of the same name by , the film stars Joel Evans as Larry Sole, a young |
Johnny Greyeyes
''Johnny Greyeyes'' is a 2000 Canadian drama film, directed by Jorge Manzano.Mary Jane Miller, ''Screening Culture: Constructing Image and Identity''. Lexington Books, 2003. . Chapter "'Living within and between Various Worlds and Identities" by Heather Norris Nicholson, pp. 223-236. The film was originally planned as a documentary about indigenous women in prison, but was rewritten as a scripted drama based on the personal testimonies of women who had been interviewed. The film stars Gail Maurice as Johnny Greyeyes, a First Nations woman who falls in love with another woman (Columpa Bobb) in prison.Rachel Giese"Impossible love: An untold story escapes from prison" ''Daily Xtra'', November 14, 2001. Its cast also includes Georgina Lightning, Jonathan Fisher, Gloria May Eshkibok, Tamara Podemski and Shirley Cheechoo. The film premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2000 Inside Out Film and Video Festival Inside may refer to: * Insider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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