Canada On Screen
Canada On Screen was a special screening series of culturally and artistically significant films from the history of cinema of Canada, which took place in 2017 as part of Canada 150. Curated and presented by the Toronto International Film Festival, the program was screened throughout 2017 as a free screening series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, The Cinematheque in Vancouver, Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa and the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal, with some selections from the program screened in other venues across Canada for National Canadian Film Day"TIFF, Hot Docs to celebrate Canada 150". ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...'', February 16, 2017. and other special local events. Selections Animation Television commercia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cinema Of Canada
Cinema in Canada dates back to the earliest known display of film in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, in 1896. The film industry in Canada has been dominated by the United States, which has utilized Canada as a shooting location and to bypass British film quota laws, throughout its history. Canadian filmmakers, English and French, have been active in the development of cinema in the United States. Films by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. were some of the first to arrive in Canada and early films made in the country were produced by Edison Studios. Canadian Pacific Railway and other railways supported early filmmaking including James Freer, whose '' Ten Years in Manitoba'' was the first known film by a Canadian. '' Evangeline'' is the earliest recorded Canadian feature film. George Brownridge and Ernest Shipman were major figures in Canadian cinema in the 1920s and 1930s. Shipman oversaw the production the most expensive film up to that point. Brownridge's career led to ''Carry on, Sergeant! ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Black Soul
''Black Soul'' (french: Âme noire) is a 2000 animated short by Haitian Canadian filmmaker Martine Chartrand that uses paint-on-glass animation and music to portray defining moments of Black history. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, its soundtrack features traditional African rhythms, gospel music Gospel music is a traditional genre of Christian music, and a cornerstone of Christian media. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of gospel music varies according to culture and social context. Gospel music is com ... by Ranee Lee and a composition by jazz pianist Oliver Jones. Awards for the film included a Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Jutra Award for best animation. It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows. Premise It's the middle of winter in Montreal when an old lady sits down with her grandson to explore the trials and tribulations his ancestors and other Bl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Frédéric Back
Frédéric Back (April 8, 1924 – December 24, 2013) was a Canadian artist and film director of short animated films.John L. Kennedy and Eugene Walz"Frédéric Back". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', November 4, 2007. During a long career with Radio-Canada, the French-language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning two, for his 1981 film '' Crac'' and the 1987 film '' The Man Who Planted Trees''. Biography Born in Saarbrücken, The Territory of the Saar Basin, and raised in Strasbourg, Back's family moved to Paris at the start of the Second World War. Back studied art, first at the École Estienne and then at École régionale des beaux-arts de Rennes. Back's first exhibition took place at the Salon de la Marine in 1946. Back emigrated to Canada in 1948, at the invitation of a pen pal, Ghylaine Paquin, who would become Back's wife the following year. Prior to joining the CBC, he taught at the École des beaux-arts. In ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Man Who Planted Trees (film)
''The Man Who Planted Trees'' (french: L'homme qui plantait des arbres) is a 1987 Canadian short animated film directed by Frédéric Back. It is based on Jean Giono's 1953 short story '' The Man Who Planted Trees''. This 30-minute film was distributed in two versions, French and English, narrated respectively by actors Philippe Noiret and Christopher Plummer, and produced by Radio-Canada. Awards The film won the Academy Award (1988) for Best Animated Short Film. It also competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation at the 1988 Yorkton Film Festival. In 1994, it was voted number 44 of the ''50 Greatest Cartoons'' of all time by members of the animation field. References External links * *MUBI Further reading *Olivier Cotte Olivier Cotte (born 20 June 1963) is a French writer, graphic novel scriptwriter, animation historian, illustrator, and a director. Biography Born into a family of art ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Weldon (animator)
John Weldon (born May 11, 1945) is a Canadians, Canadian actor, composer, animator and movie director, known for his National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated shorts. Born in Belleville, Ontario, Belleville, Ontario, Weldon lives in Montreal, Quebec. Following his retirement from the NFB, Weldon has devoted his time to songwriting and comic books, including a planned comic book series, ''Ashcan Alley''. Filmography * ''What Do You Do?'' (1976, animator) * ''Spinnolio'' (1977) * ''No Apple For Johnny'' (1977; written, animated and directed) * ''Special Delivery (1978 film), Special Delivery'' (1978; cowritten and directed with Eunice Macaulay) * ''The Log Driver's Waltz'' (1979) * ''Emergency Numbers'' (1984) * ''Real Inside'' (1984) * ''Of Dice and Men'' (1988) * ''To Be (1990 film), To Be'' (1990) * ''The Lump'' (1991) * ''Scant Sanity'' (1996) * ''Frank the Wrabbit'' (1998) * ''The Hungry Squid'' (2001) * ''Yo'' (2003) * ''Noël Noël'' (2003) (script) * ''Home Security'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Log Driver's Waltz
The Log Driver's Waltz is a Canadian folk song, written by Wade Hemsworth. ''The Log Driver's Waltz'' is also a Canadian animated film from the National Film Board, released in 1979 as part of its Canada Vignettes series. Song information The song celebrates the profession of log driving, a practice in the lumber industry which involved transporting felled timber by having workers walk or run on the logs as they floated down rivers. This occupation required a great deal of strength and physical agility, and Hemsworth was struck by how much the sight of log drivers at work resembled dancing. The song's chorus is: For he goes birling down and down the white water That's where the log driver learns to step lightly It's birling down, and down white water A log driver's waltz pleases girls completely. The lyrics are often misheard as "whirling" or "twirling" instead of "birling". "Birl" is an old Scots verb meaning "to revolve or cause to revolve", and in modern English mea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Peter Foldes
Peter Foldes (22 August 1924 in Budapest, Hungary – 29 March 1977 in Paris) was a Hungarian-British director and animator. Biography Budapest-born Peter Foldes was one of a number of Hungarian artists (another was the film's composer Mátyás Seiber) who ended up working with fellow countryman John Halas on the latter's animated films after he moved to Britain in 1946. After leaving Halas, Foldes made a number of animated films in collaboration with his British wife Joan (b. 1924), starting with the allegorical ''Animated Genesis'' (1952), ''On Closer Inspection'' (1953) and ''A Short Vision'' (1956). ''A Short Vision'' became one of the most influential British animated films ever made, when it was screened on US television as part of the popular '' Ed Sullivan Show''. Although children were advised to leave the room while it played, it still caused outrage and alarm with its graphic representation of the horrors of nuclear war. In the film, wild creatures flee in terror ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hunger (1973 Film)
''Hunger/La Faim'' is a 1973 animated short film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It was directed by Peter Foldes and is one of the first computer animation films. The story, told without words, is a morality tale about greed and gluttony in contemporary society. National Research Council Peter Foldes worked in collaboration with the National Research Council's Division of Radio and Electrical Engineering's Data Systems Group, who decided to develop a computer animation application in 1969. NRC scientist Nestor Burtnyk had heard an animator from Disney explain the traditional animation process, where a head animator draws the key cels and assistants draw the fill in pictures. The work of the artist's assistant seemed to Burtnyk to be the ideal demonstration vehicle for computer animation and within a year he programmed a "key frame animation" package to create animated sequences from key frames. The NFB in Montreal was contacted so that artists could experiment with ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michèle Cournoyer
Michèle Cournoyer (born November 14, 1943) is a Canadian animator who on 1 March 2017 received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for her body of work. Early life Born in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, Quebec, Cournoyer began drawing at the age of five, and started painting at 12 when she was hospitalized, and her father bought her an oil paint set. At the age of 17, she had to halt her art education when her mother became ill, with Cournoyer caring for her ailing mother and the family. Her mother died when Cournoyer was 20 years of age. After two years studying in Quebec City, she moved to Montreal, then to London to study graphic arts. Studying in London during the 1960s, she was influenced by Pop Art, the Dada movement and surrealism. During the 1970s she worked as a set designer, art director, costume designer and screenwriter for several Quebec-based film companies. Independent film and animation work Her first animation film, ''Papa! Papa! Papa! (L'Homme ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Hat (film)
''The Hat'' (french: Le Chapeau) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Michèle Cournoyer and released in 1999.Mark Peranson, "Is there still a here, here?". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 8, 2000. Told entirely without dialogue, the film centres on an exotic dancer's flashbacks to childhood memories of sexual abuse. The film was screened in the International Critics' Week section of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.Peter Robb"Black and white all over: animator Michèle Cournoyer gets her due" ''Ottawa Citizen'', September 10, 2015. It was also screened at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was named the winner of the award for Best Canadian Short Film. It subsequently won the Jutra Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001,John Griffin, "Maelstrom hooks 8 more: Denis Villeneuve's fish fable takes best picture, actress, director". ''Montreal Gazette The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Steven Woloshen
Steven Woloshen (born 1960) is a Canadian film animator and a pioneer of drawn-on-film animation. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, Woloshen first attended Vanier College, where he worked with Super-8 film and video, later Woloshen specialized in 16mm independent film techniques at Concordia University in Montreal. He initially made documentaries and collage films, but the freedom and accessibility of scratch animation won him over. He has since created animated and experimental films, which have been shown at screenings and festivals around the world. Working in camera-less animation since 1982, Woloshen has used scratches and lacerations on film to create emotional content. Since Woloshen's return to filmmaking in 1996, after a hiatus of more than a decade spent working in various capacities in the film industry, Woloshen has been busy, seemingly increasing his output year by year even as he faces the usual obstacles that tend to slow an independent filmmaker’s career (p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cameras Take Five
''Cameras Take Five'' is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Steven Woloshen and released in 2003.John Griffin, "Rendez-vous du cinema breaks out in English: Anglo films open event for first time". '' Montreal Gazette'', February 15, 2003. The film is a scratch film comprising abstract improvisational line drawings set to the tune of the jazz standard " Take Five". The film premiered on February 20, 2003, at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois as the preview in front of Bernar Hébert's feature film ''The Favourite Game'', the first time non-francophone films had ever been selected to open the festival. Gregory Singer of '' Animation World Network'' wrote that the film "is the popping peekaboo pizzazz of dots, a firework display, a miniature maelstrom of color. Lines extending, collapsing, tumbling, folding, curling. Greens and purples. At times, it looks like holes are burned directly into the emulsion." It was included in the 2003 Animation Show of Shows, and was l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |