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Toronto International Film Festival Changemaker Award
The Changemaker Award is an annual film award presented by the Toronto International Film Festival in conjunction with the Shawn Mendes Shawn Peter Raul Mendes (; born August 8, 1998) is a Canadian pop singer. He gained a following in 2013, when he posted song covers on the video sharing platform Vine. The following year, he caught the attention of artist manager Andrew Gert ... Foundation. '' eTalk'', September 15, 2020. First presented at the 2020 T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permanent destination for film culture operating out of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, located in Downtown Toronto. TIFF's mission is "to transform the way people see the world through film". Year-round, the TIFF Bell Lightbox offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support, and the chance to meet filmmakers from Canada and around the world. TIFF Bell Lightbox is located on the north west corner of King Street and John Street in downtown Toronto. In 2016, 397 films from 83 countries were screened at 28 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 480,000 attendees, over 5,000 of whom were industry professionals. TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Williamson (filmmaker)
Rich Williamson is a Canadian film director, cinematographer and editor, most noted as codirector with Shasha Nakhai of the 2021 film '' Scarborough''. The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture, and Nakhai and Williamson won the award for Best Director, at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. A partner with Nakhai in the production firm Compy Films, he first became known for his 2016 short documentary film ''Frame 394'', which was a CSA nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. He was also a CSA nominee for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, for his work on Nakhai's documentary film ''Take Light''. ''Scarborough'', codirected by Nakhai and Williamson as their debut narrative feature film, premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the 46th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from September 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto International Film Festival Awards
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 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IndieWire
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Hollywood and the expanding universes of TV and streaming." IndieWire is part of Penske Media. History The original IndieWire newsletter launched on July 15, 1996, billing itself as "the daily news service for independent film." Following in the footsteps of various web- and AOL-based editorial ventures, IndieWire was launched as a free daily email publication in the summer of 1996 by New York- and Los Angeles-based filmmakers and writers Eugene Hernandez, Mark Rabinowitz, Cheri Barner, Roberto A. Quezada, and Mark L. Feinsod. Initially distributed to a few hundred subscribers, the readership grew rapidly, passing 6,000 in late 1997. In January 1997, IndieWire made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival to begin their coverage o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis De Filippis
Luis De Filippis is a Canadian- Italian film director and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Peter Knegt"This filmmaker is pushing beyond 'sensational' trans narratives with a love letter to their nonna" CBC Arts, January 16, 2018. She is most noted for her 2017 short film ''For Nonna Anna'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. The film went on to receive a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. Her films feature transgender A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through tr ... lead characters, but are not typically driven by inner or interpersonal conflict over the protagonist's gender identity itself; instead, they focus on the protagonist's ongoing family relationships and experiences after the period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something You Said Last Night
''Something You Said Last Night'' is a 2022 Canadian-Swiss drama film, written and directed by Luis De Filippis. The films stars Carmen Madonia as Ren, a young transgender woman in her mid 20s who accompanies her family on a vacation, during which she is torn between her desire to establish her independence and the comfort of retreating back into being taken care of by other people.Andreas Wiseman"Memento International Boards TIFF Drama ‘Something You Said Last Night’; Exec Producers Include ‘The Florida Project’ Duo" '' Deadline Hollywood'', August 16, 2022. The film's cast also includes Ramona Milano, Paige Evans, Joe Parro, Woon-A-Tai, Augustus Oicle, Drew Catherine, Mark Winnick, Mark Soltermann and Nate Colitto. The film had its world premiere in the Discovery section at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, the 47th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, is scheduled to be held from Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Toronto International Film Festival
The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, the 47th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, is scheduled to be held from September 8 to 18, 2022. Festival organizers have indicated that the 2022 festival will be staged primarily in-person; a small selection of films may still be offered on the Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox platform, but this is expected to represent a much smaller proportion of the overall lineup than in 2020 and 2021.Barry Hertz"Daniel Craig’s Netflix thriller Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery to have world premiere at TIFF 2022" ''The Globe and Mail'', June 29, 2022. The festival is also slated to see the return of its networking and gala events, which were also suspended or held virtually in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The full festival lineup is expected to be announced in July 2022; the first film announced for the festival was Rian Johnson's '' Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery''. The festival has also indicated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TheWrap
''TheWrap'' is an American online news website covering the business of entertainment and media via digital, print and live events. It was founded by journalist Sharon Waxman Sharon I. Waxman (born c.1963) is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has been a correspondent for '' The Washington Post'' and '' The New York Times'', and founded the Hollywood and media business news site ''TheWrap'' in early 2009. ... in 2009. Awards ''TheWrap'' has won awards for its journalism, including best website in 2018 for a news organization exclusive to the internet at the L.A. Press Club's SoCal Journalism Awards and best entertainment website in 2018 at the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism (NAEJ) awards. In 2016, the L.A. Press Club's NAEJ gave the site its top prizes for feature photography and Sharon Waxman's WaxWord blog, as well as second place for Best Entertainment Website and Entertainment Publication. The site was named the best online news site in both 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shasha Nakhai
Shasha Nakhai is a Filipino-Iranian Canadian film director, most noted as co-director with Rich Williamson of the 2021 film ''Scarborough''. The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture, and Nakhai and Williamson won the award for Best Director, at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. A partner with Williamson in the production firm Compy Films, she first became known for her 2018 documentary film '' Take Light'', which was a CSA nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. She was also a producer of Williamson's short documentary film ''Frame 394'', which was a CSA nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. ''Scarborough'', codirected by Nakhai and Williamson as their debut narrative feature film, premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. It was named the winner of the Changemaker Award, was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award, and received an honorable mention from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawn Mendes
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes (; born August 8, 1998) is a Canadian pop singer. He gained a following in 2013, when he posted song covers on the video sharing platform Vine. The following year, he caught the attention of artist manager Andrew Gertler and Island Records A&R Ziggy Chareton, which led to him signing a deal with the record label. Mendes' self-titled debut EP was released in 2014, followed by his debut studio album '' Handwritten'' in 2015. ''Handwritten'' debuted atop the US ''Billboard'' 200, making Mendes one of five artists ever to debut at number one before the age of 18. The single " Stitches" reached number one in the UK and the top 10 in the US and Canada. Mendes' second album ''Illuminate'' (2016) also debuted at number one in the US, with its singles " Treat You Better" and "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back" reaching the top 10 in several countries. His self-titled third studio album (2018) was supported by the lead single " In My Blood". The album's number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarborough (2021 Film)
''Scarborough'' is a 2021 Canadian drama film, directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson (filmmaker), Rich Williamson. An adaptation of Catherine Hernandez's 2017 novel ''Scarborough (novel), Scarborough'', the film centres on the coming of age of Bing (Liam Diaz), Sylvie (Mekiya Essence Fox) and Laura (Anna Claire Beitel), three young children in a low-income neighbourhood in the Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough district of Toronto, as they learn the value of community, passion and resilience over the course of a school year through an after-school program led by childhood educator Ms. Hina (Aliya Kanani). The cast also includes Ellie Posadas as Bing's mother Edna, who has recently left her abusive husband but is doing her best to give Bing a stable and loving home environment; Cherish Violet Blood as Marie, Sylvie's mother whose husband's disability has reduced their family to living in a motel, and who is struggling to get the medical system to diagnose her son Johnny (Fel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Toronto International Film Festival
The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the 46th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from September 9 to 18, 2021.Barry Hertz"TIFF planning ‘substantially bigger’ 2021 film festival compared to last year’s hybrid event" ''The Globe and Mail'', May 3, 2021. Due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, the festival was staged as a "hybrid" of in-person and digital screenings. Most films were screened both in-person and on the digital platform, although a few titles were withheld by their distributors from the digital platform and instead were screened exclusively in-person. Artistic director Cameron Bailey indicated that while the 2021 festival would not fully return to the size of program that it offered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, it would be significantly bigger than the reduced lineup that was offered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Overall, the festival featured over 100 films, including a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
