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Lie Exposed
''Lie Exposed'' is a 2019 Canadian drama film, directed by Jerry Ciccoritti.Barry Hertz"Canadian sex and misery drama Lie Exposed is pornography for dummies" ''The Globe and Mail'', March 3, 2020. An adaptation of Jeff Kober's theatrical play ''Pornography'',Chris Knight"Lie Exposed: They don't make 'em like this any more — and that's a good thing" ''Ottawa Citizen'', March 5, 2020. the film stars Leslie Hope as Melanie, a woman who responds to a cancer diagnosis by abandoning her husband Frank ( Bruce Greenwood) to go to California and pose nude for a tintype photographer (Kober), before returning home to Toronto when the photographs are slated to be exhibited in a gallery show.Janet Smith"Lie Exposed has some very tired ideas about the vagina" '' The Georgia Straight'', March 4, 2020. The film's cast also includes Benjamin Ayres, Megan Follows, Kris Holden-Ried, David Hewlett, Grace Lynn Kung, Daniel Maslany, Kristin Lehman and Tony Nappo. The film premiered in November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Ciccoritti
Jerry Ciccoritti (born August 5, 1956) is a Canadian film, television and theatre director. His ability to work in a number of genres and for many mediums has made him one of the most successful directors in the country. Biography Born in Toronto, Ciccoritti became active in amateur drama in high school and was one of the founders of Buddies in Bad Times theatre in 1978 and of the Rhubarb Theatre Festival in 1979. He attended the film program at York University but dropped out to work in the burgeoning Toronto film industry. He co-produced, co-wrote, and directed the low-budget horror film ''Psycho Girls'' (1985). Several other genre films followed, eventually leading to work in episodic television and television movies. Ciccoritti was instrumental in developing the TV series ''Catwalk'' (1992) and '' Straight Up'' (1996) and began a secondary career as a director of big-budget television movies and miniseries with ''Net Worth'' (1995), a drama about hockey player Ted Linds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hewlett
David Ian Hewlett (born 18 April 1968) is a British-born Canadian actor, writer, and director known for his role as Dr. Rodney McKay in the ''Stargate'' science-fiction franchise. He first gained fame for his roles as Grant Jansky in the Canadian TV series '' Traders'' (1996—2000) and as David Worth in the Canadian psychological horror film ''Cube'' (1997). He had earlier appeared in the horror film '' Pin'' (1988) and the science-fiction film '' Scanners II: The New Order'' (1991). More recently, Hewlett had a prominent supporting role in '' Rise of the Planet of the Apes'' (2011), portraying bad-tempered airplane pilot Douglas Hunsiker opposite John Lithgow and Andy Serkis. Hewlett played the character Fleming in the multi-Academy Award winning film ''The Shape of Water'' (2017). Early life Hewlett was born in Redhill, England, and moved with his family to Canada at the age of four. Hewlett received his first computer in his mid-teens and became a self-described "compute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ici Radio-Canada
ICI or Ici may refer to: Companies and organisations * ICI Homes, builder, Florida. US * Former UK Imperial Chemical Industries ** ICI Australia, later Orica * Independent Curators International, New York City, US * Indian Concrete Institute * Indian Citation Index *, Goutte d'Or district, Paris, France * Institute of Cultural Inquiry, US art sponsor * International Colonial Institute, Brussels, Belgium * International Compact with Iraq, 2007 Iraq-UN * Investment Company Institute, US * A Woman's Place (bookstore), or Information Center Incorporate Media * ''Ici'' (magazine) (in French), Montreal, Canada * Ici Radio-Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation service from 2013 * ICI (TV channel) (International Channel/Canal International), Montreal, Canada Science and technology * Interactive Compilation Interface The Interactive Compilation Interface (ICI) is a plugin system with a high-level compiler-independent and low-level compiler-dependent API to transform current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Canadian Screen Awards
The 8th annual Canadian Screen Awards were originally scheduled to be held on March 29, 2020, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2019."Alex Trebek among special 2020 Canadian Academy award recipients" '''', December 5, 2019. As in prior years, the awards in many of the technical and craft categories would have been presented in a series of advance Canadian Screen Week galas in the week before the main ceremony. Nominations were announced by the |
Canadian Screen Award For Best Original Score
An annual award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score is presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian original score for the previous year. Prior to 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards; since 2012 it has been presented as part of the expanded Canadian Screen Awards The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) .... 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Prix Iris for Best Original Music * References {{Canadian Screen Awards Film awards for best score Original Score ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the awards recognize excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television (English-language) and film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers, artists, and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Oscars and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia, the IFTA Awards in Ireland, the César Awards in France and the Goya Awards in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lana Del Rey
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, Glamour (presentation), glamour, and melancholia, with frequent references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s–1960s Americana (culture), Americana. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Lana Del Rey, various accolades, including two Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for six Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Variety (magazine), ''Variety'' honored her at their Variety Hitmakers, Hitmakers Awards for being "one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century." Raised in upstate New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. After numerous projects, including her Lana Del Ray (album), self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey's breakthrough came i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google
Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and Computer hardware, consumer electronics. It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and one of the world's List of most valuable brands, most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the area of artificial intelligence. Its parent company Alphabet Inc., Alphabet is considered one of the Big Tech, Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon (company), Amazon, Apple Inc., Apple, Meta Platforms, Meta, and Microsoft. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Doctor of Philosophy, PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14% of its publicl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citytv
Citytv is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The licence of the original Citytv station, granted the callsign of CITY-TV by the CRTC on November 25, 1971 to Cable Television Association executive and former print journalist Phyllis Switzer, who moved with her family from western Canada (Alberta) to Toronto in 1967. The application was granted based on the argument that Toronto needed a locally oriented broadcast television station History CHUM Limited announced plans to sell its broadcasting assets to CTV parent CTVglobemedia on July 12, 2006. CTVgm intended to retain CHUM's Citytv system while divesting CHUM's A-Channel stations and Alberta cable channel Access to get the CRTC to approve the acquisition. On the same day that the takeover was announced, Citytv cancelled its supper-hour, late-night and weekend newscasts at its local Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary & Winnipeg stations, laying off hundreds of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baby Blue Movie
''The Baby Blue Movie'' was a late-night programming block on the Canadian television channel Citytv that primarily aired softcore pornography and erotica films. Initially broadcast from 1972 to 1975 to generate publicity for the then-upstart channel, ''Baby Blue'' was the first regularly-scheduled adult television program to air in North America. The series was revived in the 1990s as ''Baby Blue 2'', which aired until 2008. History CITY-TV began broadcasting out of Toronto, Ontario on September 28, 1972 as the first commercial ultra high frequency (UHF) television station in Canada. Station founder Moses Znaimer aired feature films as the bulk of Citytv's programming as the station established itself, and hired Brian Linehan to purchase and schedule movies. To generate publicity for the new station and communicate that it was for "mature, urban adults," Znaimer conceived of a regularly scheduled block of softcore adult films to air on Friday nights, which became ''The Baby Blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postmedia
Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network, Postmedia News or Postmedia) is a Canadian media conglomerate consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in newspaper publishing, news gathering and Internet operations. It is best known for being the owner of the ''National Post'' and the '' Financial Post''. The company is headquartered at Postmedia Place, located on Bloor Street of Toronto. The company's strategy has seen its publications invest greater resources in digital news gathering and distribution, including expanded websites and digital news apps for smartphones and tablets."Postmedia revamps Ottawa Citizen's digital service" |
Tony Nappo
Antonio Nappo is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in '' Four Brothers'', ''Saw II'', ''Land of the Dead'', '' Bad Blood'', and '' Born to be Blue''. He also is the voice of Jimmy Falcone (McDougal) in ''Fugget About It''. Biography An Italian-Canadian, Tony was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. He attended the University of Toronto for two years before transferring to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City where he graduated in 1991. Career Television In the first season of the based on real events crime-drama '' Bad Blood'' (2017-2018) Nappo played crime family "soldier" Gio. Nappo plays maintenance guy Paul in the first season of TV series '' Strays'' (2021-) and also when the show returned for a second season in September, 2022. Theatre Nappo took on the role of Michael in a 2013 run of the play ''God of Carnage'' at the Panasonic Theatre. In the 2015 production (plus its 2017 encore run) of Nicolas Billon Nicolas Billon (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
