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Avi Federgreen
Avi Federgreen is a Canadian film director and producer based in Toronto, Ontario. Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, he began his career as a location and production manager, In the 2000s he began producing feature films and television series, before launching his own distribution firm, Indiecan Entertainment, in 2011 to improve distribution opportunities for independent Canadian film. Around the same time, he launched the Federgreen Entertainment studio. Projects spearheaded by Federgreen through Indiecan have included the Indiecan 10K and 20K Challenges to solicit and produce screenplays by first-time filmmakers, an international sales division to increase business opportunities for Canadian independent films in foreign markets, and a division to distribute LGBTQ films. In 2019, Federgreen also acquired Anna Stratton Anna Stratton is a Canadian film and television producer and actress. Her projects include the feature films ''Zero Patience'' (1993), ''Lilies'', for which s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...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 Métis 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] |
Bruno & Boots (TV Series)
''Bruno & Boots'' is a Canadian series of television films, based on Gordon Korman's '' Macdonald Hall'' series of young adult novels. Directed by Vivieno Caldinelli, the films were produced by Aircraft Pictures for YTV, and star Callan Potter as Boots and Jonny Gray as Bruno. . '''', March 29, 2017. The first film in the series, ''Go Jump in the Pool!'', aired in 2016, while the second and third films in the series, ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Plan An Orgy In A Small Town
''How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town'' is a 2015 Canadian sex comedy film directed by Jeremy Lalonde. Plot Cassie Cranston is a newspaper sex columnist returning to her hometown for her mother's funeral for the first time since being slut-shamed by her high school classmates who caught her trying to lose her virginity.'How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town': Slamdance Review '''', February 11, 2016. In trouble with her publisher because many of the sex stories she has written about were actually fictional, and with her former friends and neighbours because she has often written about them as |
The Cocksure Lads
The Cocksure Lads is a Canadian British Invasion-style band led by Murray Foster and Mike Ford. The Cocksure Lads perform as a live band; there is also a movie about a fictional version of the band. History The Cocksure Lads were dreamed up by Murray Foster and Mike Ford, two former members of the Canadian band Moxy Früvous in the late 1990s. Foster also played bass in the band Great Big Sea. Foster and Ford shared a love of early sixties Britpop and began writing songs in that genre for their own amusement. One song, “That’s Any Good,” was performed several times by Moxy Früvous. As more and more of these British Invasion style tunes came to life, they began to develop a backstory to the band that had been named “The Cocksure Lads” by their friend Danny Ameri. The Band In 2010, Foster and Ford released ''The Greatest Hits of the Cocksure Lads, 1963-1968''. It featured 12 original songs. They began doing limited live appearances as The Cocksure Lads, accompanied by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Of Dirt
''Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music'' is a 2006 book by Wendy Fonarow. Contents The title of the book comes from one verse from the song " Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails ("and you could have it all, my empire of dirt"). While writing the manuscript, Fonarow was given a vinyl edition of the Johnny Cash album '' American IV'', which includes a cover of "Hurt", by Alan McGee, founder of Creation Records. The cover, designed by Matthew Cooper, depicts a typical indie band (2 guitarists, a bass player and a drummer all thin) in silhouette (see sleeperbloke). In chapter 1 the author discuss 'What Is "Indie"?'. A problem with defining indie is that any precise definition will exclude music and performers which indie fans and insiders feel should be included or include ones that should be excluded. These are some possible definitions:page 26 # Indie music is the one which is recorded by independent labels and distributed via independent distributors. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Random Acts Of Romance
''Random Acts of Romance'' (originally titled ''Love Bites'') is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Katrin Bowen, starring Robert Moloney, Laura Bertram, Amanda Tapping and Zak Santiago. Cast * Robert Moloney as David * Laura Bertram as Holly * Amanda Tapping as Diane * Zak Santiago as Matt * Ted Whittall as Richard * Katharine Isabelle as Bud * Sonja Bennett as Lynne * Lisa Chandler as Sarah * Taylor St. Pierre as Young husband * Emily Bett Rickards as Young wife * Nicholas Carella as Saul * Morgan Brayton as Gwen * Christina Jastrzembska as Mrs. Anderson * Diana Pavlovská as Cooking lady Release The film premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival on 5 October 2012. It opened in theatres in Canada on 8 November 2013. Reception Katherine Monk of '' Canada.com'' rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote that there is "enough selection at the emotional buffet to keep our psychological palate amused." ''The Globe and Mail'' wrote that while the film "manages to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Before Dawn
''Dead Before Dawn'' (also known as ''Dead Before Dawn 3D'') is a 2012 Canadian adventure-horror comedy directed by April Mullen, written by Tim Doiron, and starring Devon Bostick, Martha MacIsaac, and Christopher Lloyd. It introduces "zemons", a combination of zombie and demon."DEAD BEFORE DAWN" DIRECTOR TALKS 3D “ZEMONS” Fangoria. Retrieved 29 May 2013. It is Canada's first live-action 3D , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Yours (film)
''I'm Yours'' is a 2011 Canadian romantic comedy film written and directed by Leonard Farlinger. Plot On the verge of his thirtieth birthday, Robert ( Rossif Sutherland), a wealthy Wall Street broker, grieves his latest relationship gone awry and questions a loss of meaning and purpose to his career. Disenchanted with his life, he liquidates his assets and celebrates his newfound freedom that night in a Manhattan bar where he spots the mysterious, attractive Daphne ( Karine Vanasse). Under the influence of alcohol and prodded on by his older mentor Phil (Don McKellar), Robert attempts to make a pass at Daphne only to be surprised by her responsiveness. The attraction between the two grows and soon they are off to a motel for a night of impassioned love-making infused with a hefty dose of drugs and alcohol. Early the next morning, Daphne prepares to leave but hesitates when she discovers Robert’s tote bag filled with cash. She blackmails Robert into posing as her fiancé and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Dog
''Good Dog'' is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which aired for one season on HBO Canada. The show follows the life of character George Findlay, a role that Ken Finkleman reprised from ''The Newsroom (Canadian TV series), The Newsroom''. Overview George Findlay (Finkleman) is a character who has been present in virtually all of Finkleman's past television projects, including ''The Newsroom'', ''More Tears'', ''Foolish Heart (TV series), Foolish Heart'' and ''Foreign Objects (TV series), Foreign Objects''. A self-centred and unsympathetic television producer, in ''Good Dog'' he is trying to launch a reality show about his life with his new, much younger girlfriend Claire (Lauren Lee Smith). The series was initially renewed for a ten-episode second season, with a retooled storyline focusing on cable news. However, this season was instead retitled as a new program titled ''Good God (TV series), Good God''. Episodes References External links * HBO Canada's Good Dog pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Hockey Musical
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
