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Calvin Thomas (director)
Calvin Thomas (born November 29, 1986) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who collaborates on most of his work with Yonah Lewis.James Adams"Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas: filmmakers" ''The Globe and Mail'', September 9, 2011. The duo are most noted for their 2019 film '' White Lie'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Motion Picture, and garnered the duo nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards. The duo, both alumni of Sheridan College, released their debut feature film '' Amy George'' in 2011. They followed up with ''The Oxbow Cure ''The Oxbow Cure'' is a 2013 Canadian independent film directed by Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas. It stars writer Claudia Dey as Lena, a woman who moves away from the city to a remote cottage in an attempt to heal herself and escape from her past. ...'' in 2013, and '' Spice It Up'' in 2018, before releasing ''White Lie''. In addition to their Canadian Screen Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Calgary is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in the transitional area between the Rocky Mountain Foothills and the Canadian Prairies, about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Calgary's economy includes activity in the energy, financial services, film and television, transportation and logistics, technology, manufacturing, aerospace, health and wellness, reta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oxbow Cure
''The Oxbow Cure'' is a 2013 Canadian independent film directed by Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas. It stars writer Claudia Dey as Lena, a woman who moves away from the city to a remote cottage in an attempt to heal herself and escape from her past. The film premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival in the Independent Visions Competition on April 12, 2013 and had a limited theatrical release in Canada on August 23, 2013. Plot Lena is a middle-aged woman who has recently been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. In an attempt to come to terms with her transforming body, she leaves her home in the city and her ailing father to begin a new life at a remote cottage in Northern Ontario. There she begins to create an interior routine while exploring the natural world encircling the cottage. Lena learns of her father’s death and mourns the loss from afar. Later, she watches as an emaciated figure hobbles across the frozen lake outside her cottage. She locks the door and tries to push ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1986 Births
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deragh Campbell
Deragh Campbell is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is known for her acclaimed performances in independent Canadian cinema. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz—'' Never Eat Alone'' (2016), '' Veslemøy's Song'' (2018), '' MS Slavic 7'' (2019), and '' Point and Line to Plane'' (2020)—have screened at film festivals internationally. She has also featured in two of Kazik Radwanski's films, ''How Heavy This Hammer'' (2015) and '' Anne at 13,000 Ft.'' (2019), both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Campbell has won accolades for her work, including the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association and Best Actress in a Canadian Film from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. Career Originally from Toronto, Ontario, Campbell studied creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, before deciding to pursue an acting career. Campbell made her film debut in Matthew Porterfield's 2013 independent feature film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Slavic 7
''MS Slavic 7'' is a 2019 Canadian drama film directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell. It stars Campbell as a young woman who discovers a series of letters in a Harvard archive between her great-grandmother and a fellow Polish poet. The film derives its name from the library call number for the box that holds the letters. It had its world premiere at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2019, and screened at New Directors/New Films on March 30, 2019. Plot After being appointed literary executor, a young woman named Audrey Benac uncovers a series of letters that her great-grandmother had written to a fellow poet. Both displaced from Poland, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa and Nobel Prize nominee Józef Wittlin corresponded from 1957 to 1964 between Toronto, Wales and New York City. Set over the course of three days, Audrey embarks on a journey to Houghton Library at Harvard University to translate and make sense of Zofia's words. Coming up against her aun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veslemøy's Song
''Veslemøy's Song'' is a 2018 Canadian dramatic short film directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz. A continuation of her 2016 film ''Never Eat Alone'', the film stars Deragh Campbell as Audrey Benac, a young woman attempting to research and recover the history of a largely forgotten female violinist and composer, Kathleen Parlow, who had taught Audrey's grandfather. The film has its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on August 7, 2018. It subsequently screened at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, and was named by the festival to its annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list. Cast * Deragh Campbell as Audrey Benac * Joan Benac as herself * Steve Benac as himself Production Campbell portrays Audrey Benac, a character she has played for Bohdanowicz in the films ''Never Eat Alone'' (2016) and ''MS Slavic 7 ''MS Slavic 7'' is a 2019 Canadian drama film directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell. It stars Campbell as a young woman who discovers a series of letters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maison Du Bonheur
''Maison du Bonheur'' is a 2017 Canadian documentary film directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz. It profiles Juliane Sellam, a 77-year-old French astrologer living in Montmartre. The film premiered at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema on April 23, 2017, and had a limited theatrical release in the U.S. and Canada in 2018. Synopsis Filmed in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, ''Maison du Bonheur'' is a portrait of 77-year-old Juliane Sellam, who is as full of life and vibrancy as the iconic neighbourhood she calls home. The film focuses on the daily life of Sellam in the pre-war apartment that the French astrologer has lived in for half a century. In this intimate and eclectic space, Sellam’s world proves to be as expansive as the universe that lies at her doorstep. Told in 30 episodic segments narrated by Sellam and Bohdanowicz, the matriarch’s life and rich inner world crystallizes though her daily rituals of making coffee, applying makeup, and caring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Intestine
The Intestine is a 2016 Canadian independent film written and directed by Lev Lewis. It stars Melanie Scheiner as a young woman attempting to better her life by appropriating a rich man's home. The film premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival on October 3, 2016 and had its international premiere at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema on April 21, 2017. Plot Penniless and unhappy, Maya is growing increasingly fed up with her tedious job, unexciting friends, rundown apartment and the never-ending burden of caring for her drug-addict mother. Late one night she meets a wealthy man, Philip, and wakes up the next morning alone in his upscale suburban home. With Philip nowhere to be found, she attempts to discard her old life and take possession of his empty house. Maya befriends a neighbour and tries to settle in, when she receives a phone call from the hospital informing her of her mother's overdose death. Unable to fully process the news, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Canadian filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with Deragh Campbell and made her feature film directorial debut in 2016 with ''Never Eat Alone''. Her second feature film, ''Maison du Bonheur'', was a finalist for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award at the 2018 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. That year, she won the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association. Her third feature film, ''MS Slavic 7'', which she co-directed with Campbell, had its world premiere at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in 2019. She has also directed several short films, such as ''Veslemøy's Song'' (2018) and ''Point and Line to Plane'' (2020). Career After directing several short films since 2009, Bohdanowicz made her feature film directorial debut in 2016 with ''Never Eat Alone''. The film follows a lonely grandmother as she tries to reconnect with an ex-boyfriend from her youth. After premiering at the Vancouver International Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Eat Alone
''Never Eat Alone'' is a 2016 Canadian drama film written and directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz. The film follows a lonely grandmother as she tries to reconnect with an ex-boyfriend from her youth. The film premiered in the Future//Present section of the Vancouver International Film Festival on October 2, 2016, where Bohdanowicz won the Emerging Canadian Director award. It also screened at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema as part of a 2017 retrospective of Bohdanowicz's work. Cast * Joan Benac as herself * Deragh Campbell as Audrey Benac * George Radovics as Don Radovich Production ''Never Eat Alone'' is an unorthodox documentary-fiction hybrid. Joan Benac, the grandmother character, is played by Joan Benac, Bohdanowicz's grandmother. Don Radovich, the ex-boyfriend character, is played by George Radovics, the film's producer and Bohdanowicz's partner Calvin Thomas' grandfather. Deragh Campbell plays Audrey Benac, a character she has inhabited twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Directorial Debuts
This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release. Many film makers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early works by Orson Welles such as his filming of his stage production of ''Twelfth Night'' in 1933 or his experimental short film '' The Hearts of Age'' in 1934. Often these early works were not intended for commercial release either by intent, such as film school projects or inability to find distribution. Subsequently, many directors learnt their trade in the medium of television as it became popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Notable directors who did their first directorial work in this medium include Robert Altman, Norman Jewison, Sidney Lumet, and Alfonso Cuarón. As commercial television advertising became more cinematic in the 1960s and 1970s, many directors' early work was in this medium, including directors such as Alan Parker and Ridle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
