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List Of Canadian Films Of 2013
This is a list of Cinema of Canada, Canadian films which were released in 2013: See also * 2013 in Canada * 2013 in Canadian television References External linksFeature Films Released In 2013 With Country of Origin Canadaat IMDb2014 Canadian Screen Awards(nominees and winners)Canada's Top Ten for 2013(lists of top ten Canadian features and shorts, selected in a process administered by Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF) {{DEFAULTSORT:Canadian films of 2013 Lists of Canadian films by year, 2013 2013 in Canadian cinema, * Lists of 2013 films by country, Canada 2010s Canadian films, * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Canada
The cinema of 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 United Kingdom, British film quota laws, throughout its history. Canadian filmmakers, English Canadians, English and French Canadians, French, have been active in the development of Cinema of the United States, cinema in the United States and Cinema of the United Kingdom, cinema in the United Kingdom. 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 (1914 film), Evangeline'' is the earliest recorded Canadian feature film. George Brownridge and Ernest Shipman were major figures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deni Ellis Béchard
Deni Ellis Béchard, also known as Deni Yvan Béchard, is a Canadian-American novelist. His novel, ''Vandal Love'' (2006), won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. It was a finalist for the 2009 Combat des livres, broadcast on Radio-Canada. His second book, ''Cures for Hunger'', was a memoir about growing up with his father who robbed banks, and was an Amazon.ca pick for one of the best memoirs of 2012. He has written a book of journalism, ''Of Bonobos and Men: a Journey to the Heart of the Congo'', which won the 2015 Nautilus Book Award for Investigative Journalism as well as the Nautilus Book Award Grand Prize. He coauthored ''Kuei: a Conversation on Racism'', book about racism against First Nations People in Canada, written in epistolary form with the Innu poet Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine. His novel ''Into the Sun,'' about the Civilian Surge in Afghanistan, won the 2017 Midwest Book Award for Literary Fiction and has been described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Zegers
Kevin Zegers (born September 19, 1984) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles as Josh Framm in the ''Air Bud'' film series, Toby Osbourne in '' Transamerica'' (2005), Damien Dalgaard in the CW teen drama ''Gossip Girl'', and as rookie FBI Agent Brendon Acres on the ABC crime drama '' The Rookie: Feds''. He has also starred in the films '' Dawn of the Dead'' (2004), '' It's a Boy Girl Thing'' (2006), '' The Jane Austen Book Club'' (2007), '' Fifty Dead Men Walking'' (2008), '' Frozen'' (2010), '' The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'', and '' Nighthawks'' (2019). Early life Zegers was born in Woodstock, Ontario, the son of Mary-Ellen (née Veldman), a teacher, and Jim Zegers, a quarry worker. He has two sisters, Krista and Katie. (The latter is also an actress; she appeared with him in John Carpenter's '' In the Mouth of Madness''.) He is of Dutch descent; all four of his grandparents were born in the Netherlands. He attended St Mary's Catholic High School in Woodst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karine Vanasse
Karine Vanasse (, ; born 24 November 1983) is a Canadian actress, who had roles in the films '' Polytechnique'', '' Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)'', ''Switch'' and '' Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)''. Internationally she is best known for her roles as Colette Valois in ''Pan Am'', Margaux LeMarchal in ''Revenge'' and Lise Delorme in ''Cardinal''. She is also the host of the Canadian reality television series, '' The Traitors Canada''. Life and career Vanasse was born in Drummondville, Quebec, the daughter of Conrad Vanasse, a council worker, and Renée (née Gamache), who was her manager at the beginning of her career. At the age of nine, Vanasse expressed her desire to sing or to act and she fulfilled that wish when she appeared in the teen show ''Club des 100 watts'' after winning a "lip sync" competition. It was then, with the help of her mother, that Vanasse began to audition for, and take part in, TV commercials and to play minor and supporting ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cory Monteith
Cory Allan Michael Monteith (; May 11, 1982 July 13, 2013) was a Canadian actor and musician. He made his acting debut in the television series ''Stargate Atlantis'' (2004), and had other roles in shows including ''Smallville'' (2005), and ''Supernatural'' (2005). During his career, he starred in over eighteen dramas and seventeen films, with ''Monte Carlo'' (2011), '' Final Destination 3'' (2006), ''and Sisters & Brothers'' (2011), all becoming commercially successful. Monteith is best known for his portrayal of Finn Hudson in the first four seasons of the Fox television series ''Glee''. For his portrayal, he won a Screen Actors Guild Award and Teen Choice Award. Monteith had a troubled adolescence with substance abuse from age 13, and entered drug rehabilitation at age 19. In a 2011 interview with ''Parade'' magazine, he discussed his history of substance abuse as a teen, and in March 2013, again sought treatment for his addiction. On July 13, 2013, he died from an overdose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gia Milani
Gia Milani aka Lisa Mckenzie (born in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian screenwriter and director. She attended the University of New Brunswick, and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, before graduating in 2001 with her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fine Craft. Milani's debut feature film, '' All the Wrong Reasons'', premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013, where she won the $10,000 Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award. The same year, Milani was named one of Canada's Top film talents to watch by CBC. She is the first woman from New Brunswick to have a feature film screen at TIFF. In late 2009 Milani won the Script Accessible Award for her then unproduced screenplay ''All the Wrong Reasons''. She picked up the award at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival Milani won the $25,000 CBC Television 3-2-1 Award in 2008 for her short film ''A Dark Radius'', loosely based on human trafficking in New Brunswick. In 2007 Milani directed a music video for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The Wrong Reasons (film)
''All the Wrong Reasons'' is a 2013 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Gia Milani. It stars Karine Vanasse, Cory Monteith, Kevin Zegers and Emily Hampshire. The film was released at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot The film is set in the Fairfax Department store, a big-box outlet in which Kate Ascher (Vanasse) works as a security guard while her husband James (Monteith) is the store's manager. Kate is unable to touch other people - including her husband - or even have them near her due to the traumatic stress of seeing her sister commit suicide. After James tries unsuccessfully to bring Kate out of her isolation, he pursues intimacy from one of the store's cashiers, Nicole (Hampshire). Simon Brunson (Zegers) joins the store staff. He faces his own stresses after being injured in his former job as a firefighter. His efforts to deal with his situation inspires Kate to lash out against her cheating husband, ruin his career and cost Nicole custody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal Gazette
''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspaper currently published in Montreal. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the ''Sherbrooke Record'', which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, ''The Gazette'' is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in Canada. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. History Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called ''La Gazette du c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie St-Pierre
Annie St-Pierre is a Canadian film director and producer from Saint-Pascal, Quebec. She is most noted for her documentary film '' All That We Make (Fermières)'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015, and her narrative short film '' Like the Ones I Used to Know (Les Grandes claques)'', which was named to the initial shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the 94th Academy Awards. In 2024 she released the documentary film ''Your Higher Self (Le Plein potentiel)''. In addition to her own films, St-Pierre has been a producer on Denis Côté's films ''Wilcox'' and ''Social Hygiene (Hygiène social)''. She has also had occasional small acting roles, most notably in the films of Matthew Rankin.Justine Smith"Quebec women filmmakers shine as masters of short cinema" ''Cult MTL ''Cult MTL'' is an English language arts, culture and news website and monthly print publication, ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All That We Make
''All That We Make'' () is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Annie St-Pierre and released in 2013. The film profiles four women associated with the Cercles de fermières du Québec, a provincewide network of local organizations for women involved in farming. The film premiered as the closing gala at the 2013 Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal. The film received three Canadian Screen Award nominations, for Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Cinematography in a Documentary ( Marie Davignon, Jessica Lee Gagné, Geneviève Perron) and Best Editing in a Documentary (Myriam Magassouba), at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015."Mommy, Maps to the Stars set for showdown at Canadian Screen Awards". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila McCarthy
Sheila McCarthy (born January 1, 1956) is a Canadian actress and singer. She has worked in film, television, and on stage. McCarthy is one of Canada's most honoured actors, having won two Genie Awards (film), two Gemini Awards (television), an ACTRA Award, and two Dora Awards (theatre), along with multiple nominations. Early life McCarthy was born in Toronto, Ontario on January 1, 1956. She attended Thornlea Secondary School in Thornhill in her youth. Her first appearance on stage was at Toronto's Elgin Theatre in '' Peter Pan'' when she was age six. She later attended the University of Victoria and spent a year studying with Uta Hagen at her HB Studio in New York City, and also workshopped with the Second City troupe in Toronto. Career After several years of television work under her belt, McCarthy secured a role in the made-for-television movie ''A Nest of Singing Birds'' (1987), receiving early recognition for her talent with a Gemini Award nomination for Best Perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell (born 24 March 1952) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is a four-time Gemini Awards, Gemini Award winner, a three-time Genie Awards, Genie Award nominee, and a Canadian Screen Awards, Canadian Screen Award nominee. He is known for his portrayal of coroner Dominic Da Vinci, on the crime drama television series ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' (1998-2005) and its spin-off ''Da Vinci's City Hall'' (2005-2006). In film, Campbell is known for his collaborations with director David Cronenberg, starring in ''Fast Company (1979 film), Fast Company'' (1979), ''The Brood'' (1979), ''The Dead Zone (film), The Dead Zone'' (1983), and ''Naked Lunch (film), Naked Lunch'' (1991). He has also notably appeared in ''A Bridge Too Far (film), A Bridge Too Far'' (1977), ''The Boys Club'' (1996), ''New Waterford Girl'' (1999), ''Prozac Nation (film), Prozac Nation'' (2001), ''Turning Paige'' (also 2001), ''Cinderella Man'' (2005), and ''Goon (film), Goon'' (2011). As a director, he made t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
