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Greetings From Isolation
Greetings from Isolation is a Canadian film project, launched in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Created by film programmer Stacey Donen as an "online film festival", the project features short films by Canadian film directors, created exclusively with whatever cast and equipment resources they had with them during COVID-related lockdowns.Norman Wilner"Canadian directors are making films in self-isolation" ''Now'', May 12, 2020. As of January 15, 2021, 92 films premiered on the project website. Norman Wilner of ''Now'' favourably reviewed the first batch of films on the site, writing that "there’s a fascinating range of approaches and tones, and it's endlessly interesting to see how the individual artists respond to Donen's challenge and its limitations. More often than not, they employ themselves as their own actors – because of course they'd have to – but that just makes the shorts feel even more personal and engaging. How many of these filmmakers have ever put ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (). It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). Most cases over the course of the pandemic have been in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta. Confirmed cases have been reported in all of Canada's provinces and territories. The virus was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 25, 2020, after an individual who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive. The first case of community transmission in Canada was confirmed in British Columbia on March 5. In March 2020, as cases of community transmission were confirmed, all of Canada's provinces and territories declared states of emergency. Provinces and territories have, to varying degrees, implemented school and daycare closures, prohibitions on gatherings, closures of non-essential businesses and restrictions on entry. Canada severely restricted its border access, barring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fung
Richard Fung (born 1954) is a video artist, writer, public intellectual and theorist who currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and is openly gay. Fung is a professor at OCAD University. He earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, and received a MEd in sociology and cultural studies at University of Toronto. Fung's work in video explores the role of Asian men in gay pornography, while addressing the intersections between colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, and AIDS. Many of his works have been presented at venues in Canada and the United States of America. Fung is an activist and founded the Toronto-based organization Gay Asians of Toronto in 1980. In 2019, he was presented the Bonham Centre Award from The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification. Early life and family Fung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araya Mengesha
Araya Mengesha(born July 23, 1987) is a Canadian actor, best known for his roles as Kandae in '' Nurse.Fighter.Boy'', Michael in ''Cul de sac'' and Zoffi in ''Ruby Skye P.I.: The Maltese Puppy''. Biography Mengesha was born in Toronto to Ethiopian-Canadian International business consultant Stefanos Mengesha Seyoum and Eritrean-Canadian Selamawit Kiros. Through his father, he is a member of the Imperial family of Ethiopia. He is the cousin of theatre director Weyni Mengesha. From 2002 to 2009, together with David Acer and Christina Broccolini he was a presenter of the documentary television series ''Mystery Hunters''. His short film '' Defund'', co-directed with Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the 46th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from September 9 to 18, 2021.Barry Hertz"TIFF planning ‘substantially bigger’ 2021 film festival compared t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan McKenna (filmmaker)
Ryan McKenna is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.T'cha Dunlevy"Ryan McKenna finds heart, and humour, in Le coeur de Madame Sabali" ''Montreal Gazette'', December 3, 2015. He is most noted for his 2017 short documentary film ''Voices of Kidnapping'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards. He has also directed the theatrical feature films ''The First Winter'', ''The Heart of Madame Sabali (Le Cœur de Madame Sabali)'' and ''Cranks'', and the short films ''Open Window'', ''Chinatown'', ''Bon voyage'', ''Honky Tonk Ben'', ''Four-Mile Creek'', ''Controversies'', ''Gerson Workout'' and ''I Used to Live There''. An alumnus of the Winnipeg Film Group, he was cowriter with Matthew Rankin of the "Winnipeg Brutalist Manifesto", a Dogme 95-style manifesto of rules for films set in Winnipeg. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asghar Massombagi
Asghar Massombagi is an Iranian-Canadian film director, most noted for his 2001 film '' Khaled''.Alexandra Gill, "Reflections in an exile's eye". '' The Globe and Mail'', April 20, 2002. Born and raised in Tehran, he moved to Canada at age 18, and studied film at Simon Fraser University and the Canadian Film Centre. He made the short films ''Feel Like Chicken Tonight'' (1998) and ''The Miracle'' (1999) prior to the premiere of ''Khaled'' at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received an honorable mention for the FIPRESCI International Critics Award, and was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2001. He won the Best Director Award for the film at the 37th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and the First Time Filmmaker Award at the ReelWorld Film Festival. In 2005 he released the short film ''Rose'', and an episode of the television series ''Robson Arms''.Sorelle Saidman, "New CTV series starts filming in Vancouver". ''The Province'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Marshall
Liz Marshall is a Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto. Since the 1990s, she has directed and produced independent projects and been part of film and television teams, creating broadcast, theatrical, campaign and cross-platform documentaries shot around the world. Marshall's feature length documentaries largely focus on social justice and environmental movement, environmental themes through strong characters. She is known for ''The Ghosts in Our Machine'' and for ''Water on the Table'', for which she also produced impact and engagement campaigns, and attended many global events as a public speaker. ''Water on the Table'' features water rights activist, author and public figure Maude Barlow. ''The Ghosts in Our Machine'' features animal rights activist, photojournalist and author Jo-Anne McArthur. Biography In the early 1990s, Liz Marshall studied film, video and photography in the Media Arts program at Ryerson University in Toronto. She has since worked as a director, writer, pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lynch (director)
Peter Lynch is a Canadian filmmaker, most noted as the director and writer of the documentary films '' Project Grizzly'', '' The Herd'' and ''Cyberman''. Career Lynch's 1994 short film ''Arrowhead'', starring Don McKellar, won the Genie Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 15th Genie Awards. His feature debut, ''Project Grizzly'', premiered at the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival, and was a Genie Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 17th Genie Awards. ''The Herd'', about the six-year Canadian Reindeer Drive of the 1930s from Alaska to the Northwest Territories, premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, and was a Genie Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 19th Genie Awards. ''Cyberman'', about technology activist and University of Toronto professor Steve Mann, was released in 2001. ''A Whale of a Tale'', about Lynch's quest to discover the origin of a whale bone unearthed in downtown Toronto, followed in 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Longfellow
Brenda Longfellow (born 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker known for her biographies of female historic figures. Since 2007, Longfellow's focus in her films has been on environmental issues. Biography Brenda Longfellow was born in Copper Cliff, Ontario in 1954. Longfellow earned MA at Carleton University and completed a PhD at York University. Career Longfellow is a Canadian filmmaker and Professor of Cinema & Media Studies in the York University Film Department. She is a film theorist and has published multiple articles related to Canadian cinema, documentary and feminist film theory. Style, technique, and reception Longfellow's stated the following on the Canadian Women Film Directors Database website about her biographies about women, ''"...using biography as a way to think through as deeply as possible the contradictions that women live with. I've often chosen subjects where there has been dissonance between the public image of the women and her private experienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Litz
Nadia Litz (born December 26, 1976) is a Canadian actress and director. Early life Litz was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A former child actor, she has described herself as somewhat ambitious. She is of Russian, Polish and British descent. She took an interest in films at the age of 6, and started living in Toronto at 17 to attend York University, but left to film '' The Five Senses''. She also joined the 2,500 hopefuls who auditioned for the title role in the 1997 film version of ''Lolita'', which went to Dominique Swain. She returned to York University to take film studies. Film career Litz would go on to achieve a long acting resume, although she often received no money for her parts and instead chose projects she liked. In 1998 and 1999 she appeared in episodes of the Canadian television series ''Due South'' and '' Wind at My Back''. She starred in Jeremy Podeswa's ''The Five Senses'' that screened at The Director's Fortnight in Cannes. She later received the title role in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Lazebnik
Elizabeth Lazebnik is a Latvian Canadian filmmaker from Toronto, Ontario, whose full-length feature debut '' Be Still'' was released in 2021. The film, which premiered at the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival, was a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best British Columbia Film, and Lazebnik was a nominee for the One to Watch award, at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021. Prior to ''Be Still'' Lazebnik directed a number of short films, the most noted of which, ''Abeer'', was the winner of the Lindalee Tracey Award in 2008."Hottest Docs earn honours". ''Toronto Sun The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices is located at Postmedia Place i ...'', April 26, 2008. Filmography *''The Multiple Selves of Hannah Maynard'' - 2005, short *''Red Like Meat'' - 2008, short *''Abeer'' - 2008, short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Kent (filmmaker)
Laurence Lionel "Larry" Kent (born May 16, 1937, in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Canadian filmmaker, who is regarded as an important pioneer of independent filmmaking in Canada. Biography Larry Kent emigrated from South Africa to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1957 to study psycjology and theatre at the University of British Columbia.Jim Leach"Laurence L. Kent" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', October 14, 2010. A devout film buff and scholar, Kent made the transition from the stage to screen in the early 1960s. Kent wrote and directed the existential Canadian indie, post-beatnik, pre-hippie classic '' The Bitter Ash'' in 1962 and tirelessly toured the film despite the controversy it garnered nationwide."TIFF movie review: The Bitter Ash". '' The Globe and Mail'', September 6, 2012. Filled with profanity and brief nudity, the picture was produced on a shoestring, shot silent with audio dubbed in later and featured a jazz music score. His follow-up film, '' Sweet Substit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Kazimi
Ali Kazimi D. Litt. (born 1961) is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker, media artist and writer. Early life and education Born and raised in India, Kazimi attended St. Columba's School and graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University in 1982. He was awarded a scholarship to study film production at York University in Toronto Canada, in 1983 and graduated with BFA (honours) from the Department of Film in 1987. He joined the Department of Film, as a full-time faculty member in 2006 and served as the Chair of, what is now known as, the Department of Cinema and Media Arts from 2015-16. Films Kazimi has created a critically acclaimed body of work dealing with issues of race, immigration, history and social justice. His films have won more than thirty awards and nominations including the Gemini Award, Golden Conch ( MIFF 2006), Gold Plaque (Chicago International Film Festival, 1995), Golden Gate Award, (San Francisco International Film Festival, 1995) and Best Director Award ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
