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3rd Canadian Screen Awards
The 3rd Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 1, 2015, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2014."Canadian Screen Awards Unveil Nominations" , January 13, 2015. Nominations were announced on January 13, 2015. On the film side, '' Mommy'' led with 13 nominations, while on the television side the science fiction series '' Orphan Black'' also r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts
The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts is a 2,071-seat theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at the southeast corner of University Avenue and Queen Street West, across from Osgoode Hall. The land on which it is located was a gift from the Government of Ontario. It is the home of the Canadian Opera Company (COC) and the National Ballet of Canada.Crabb, Michael (November 27, 2016)"Xiao Nan Yu is heart-wrenching in National Ballet’s Onegin: review" ''Toronto Star''. The building's modernist design by was created by Canadian firm Diamond and Schmitt Architects, headed by Jack Diamond. It was completed in 2006, and the interior design includes an unusual glass staircase. History In the 1980s, the Canadian Opera Company and financier Hal Jackman, president of the Ballet Opera House Corporation, had begun lobbying for a new building to replace the O'Keefe Centre (now known as Meridian Hall). This building had housed the opera company for about 40 years. The company ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cast No Shadow (film)
''Cast No Shadow'' is a 2014 Canadian feature film. Directed by Christian Sparkes and written by Joel Thomas Hynes, the film stars Percy Hynes White as Jude Traynor, a troubled teenager who forms a friendship with a reclusive older woman ( Mary-Colin Chisholm) after his abusive father (Hynes) is sent to jail. The film premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival and received awards from the festival for Best Atlantic Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Cinematography. The film garnered four Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction/Production Design (Xavier Georges) and Best Original Score (Jeffrey Morrow)."Canadian Screen Awards Unveil Nominatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saïd Ben Saïd
Saïd Ben Saïd (born 11 July 1966) is a Tunisian-French film producer. Biography He grew up in Carthage and became passionate about cinema, to the point of bringing VHS tapes from France with the help of a diplomatic friend of his parents. He came to Paris in 1984 to do his higher studies at Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève in Versailles and then at ESTP. He then worked as an engineer at Lyonnaise des Eaux and then at M6. In 1996, he joined UGC, producing films by André Téchiné, Barbet Schroeder, Pascal Bonitzer and Alain Corneau. In 2010, he founded his own company, SBS Productions and produced films by Roman Polanski - Carnage (2011), Brian De Palma - Passion (2012), Philippe Garrel - Jealousy (2013), David Cronenberg - Maps to the Stars (2014), Walter Hill - The Assignment (2016) and Paul Verhoeven - Elle (2016) & Benedetta (2021). In 2009, he signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Merkt
Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), Spanish former footballer and manager * ''Michel'' (TV series), a Korean animated series * German auxiliary cruiser ''Michel'' * Michel catalog, a German-language stamp catalog * St. Michael's Church, Hamburg or Michel * S:t Michel, a Finnish town in Southern Savonia, Finland People * Alain Michel (other), several people * Ambroise Michel (born 1982), French actor, director and writer. * André Michel (director), French film director and screenwriter * André Michel (lawyer), human rights and anti-corruption lawyer and opposition leader in Haiti * Anette Michel (born 1971), Mexican actress * Anneliese Michel (1952 - 1976), German Catholic woman undergone exorcism * Annett Wagner-Michel (born 1955), German Woman Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Katz (producer)
Martin F. Katz is a Canadian film and television producer and media executive. He is president of the production firm Prospero Pictures, and a former president of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television."Mystery czar meets his clients". '' The Globe and Mail'', April 25, 2006."Chair of Canadian film/TV academy is sweet on calling awards ‘the Candys’" '''', March 14, 2016. Prior to establishing Prospero Pictures, Katz was a producer with Atlantis Enterta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maps To The Stars
''Maps to the Stars'' is a 2014 internationally co-produced satirical drama film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird. The screenplay was written by Bruce Wagner, who had written a novel entitled ''Dead Stars'' based on the ''Maps to the Stars'' script, after initial plans for making the film with Cronenberg fell through. This is the second consecutive collaboration between Cronenberg and Pattinson (after ''Cosmopolis'') and marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Prospero Pictures, who previously collaborated on ''A Dangerous Method'' and ''Cosmopolis''. This is also the third Cronenberg film made with Canadian actress Sarah Gadon. It is the first Cronenberg film shot partially in the United States, although most of it was shot, like his other films, in his native city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The film concerns the plight of a child star and a wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoon Hyun Chan
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Yoon may refer to: *Yoon (Korean name), the ninth most common Korean family name *Yoon, stage name of Shim Ja-yoon, member of K-Pop group STAYC *Yōon, a feature of the Japanese language *Prabda Yoon (born 1973), a Thai novelist See also *Yun (other) Yun may refer to: *Yǔn, Chinese name of Xionites, a nomadic tribe of Central Asia *Yun (Chinese name) (云/雲), a Chinese family name *Yun (ancient surname), an ancient Chinese surname *Yeon, or Yun, Korean (or Dutch given name) family name *Yun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Shin
Albert Shin is a Canadian filmmaker, best known for his critically acclaimed Canadian Screen Award-nominated films '' In Her Place'' (2014) and '' Disappearance at Clifton Hill'' (2019). He works frequently with collaborator Igor Drljaca. Early life Shin was born in Canada and raised in Newmarket, Ontario. His parents are of South Korean descent. Shin later studied film production at York University, where he created several short films. Career Before making the leap into features, Shin directed the short film ''Kai's Place'', and the short-run television series ''In Counseling''. His feature directorial debut, ''Point Traverse'', was released in 2009. The microbudget film screened at several film festivals, including the Wisconsin Film Festival. ''In Her Place'' His second feature film was released in 2014; it was acclaimed by critics and screened at festivals around the world. For his work on ''In Her Place'', Shin won several awards, and garnered several Canadian Scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Her Place
''In Her Place'' ( ko, 인 허 플레이스) is a 2014 Canadian- South Korean film directed and written by Albert Shin. The film follows a wealthy woman who moves in to the countryside home of a pregnant teenage girl and her mother and waits to adopt the unborn child. It premiered on September 4, 2014, in the Toronto International Film Festival's Discovery program. Plot Inspired by Korean culture's strong stigma against adoption, the film stars Gil Hae-yeon and Ahn Ji-hye as a mother and daughter living on a farm in South Korea. When the teenage daughter becomes pregnant, a woman (Yoon Da-gyeong) arrives from Seoul to propose a secret adoption, conditional on her staying with them for the duration of the pregnancy so that she can hide the adoption when she returns to Seoul after the baby's birth. Cast Production The film was shot entirely in Korea at Shin's family farm. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fall (2014 Film)
''Fall'' is a 2014 Canadian drama film. Written and directed by Terrance Odette, the film stars Michael Murphy as Father Sam, a Roman Catholic priest who receives a letter asking about a sexual abuse incident he participated in 40 years earlier. The film was inspired by a past encounter of Odette when he was 14, but is not a direct portrayal of his childhood. The film's cast also includes Wendy Crewson, Suzanne Clément, Katie Boland, Linda Kash and Joel Bissonnette. Plot The film follows the mundane life of Father Sam, who tends to his small Niagara Falls parish. He appears to simply be wearily going through the motions of his life routine. Father Sam's life is forced into descent when he receives a letter from a man named Christopher, now on his death bed, who Father Sam had mentored 40 years ago. The letter alludes to an incident when Father Sam shared a bed with Christopher when he was 14 years old, and asks whether anything inappropriate had occurred. This leads Father Sam t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
