''Tom'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by
Mike Hoolboom
Michael Hoolboom (born 1 January 1959) is a Canadian independent, experimental filmmaker. Having begun filmmaking at an early age, Hoolboom released his first major work, a "film that's not quite a film" entitled ''White Museum'', in 1986. Alth ...
and released in 2002. The film is a portrait of underground filmmaker
Tom Chomont
Tom or TOM may refer to:
* Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name)
Characters
* Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head''
* Tom Beck, a character ...
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'', September 12, 2002.
The film premiered at the
2002 Toronto International Film Festival
The 27th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5 to September 17 and screened 343 films from 50 countries. Of these 263 were feature films, of which 141 were in a language other than English. The ten-day festival opened with Atom ...
.
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The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end ]Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival and announced in December each year to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema" ...
list for 2002."Canada's Top Ten 2002"
''Film Studies Association of Canada'', January 21, 2003.
References
External links
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2002 films
Canadian documentary films
Canadian LGBT-related films
Documentary films about gay men
2002 LGBT-related films
Films directed by Mike Hoolboom
2000s English-language films
2000s Canadian films
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