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Mike McLaughlin (cinematographer)
Mike McLaughlin is a Canadian cinematographer. He is most noted for his work on the films ''Unarmed Verses'', for which he was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary, Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, and ''Hands That Bind'', for which he was a nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography, Best Cinematography at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024. ''Northern Stars'', March 6, 2024. His other credits have included the films ''The Valley Below'', ''The New Romantic'', ''I'm Going to Break Your Heart'', ''Hammer (2019 film), Hammer'', ''Jesse Jams'', ''The Kid Detective'', ''Range Roads'', ''Door Mouse'', ''Alice, Darling'' and ''The King Tide''. Ref ...
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Unarmed Verses
''Unarmed Verses'' is a 2017 Canadian documentary film, directed by Charles Officer. The film centres on the predominantly Black Canadian former residents of Villaways, a Toronto Community Housing project which is undergoing demolition and revitalization. The film premiered at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Hot Docs, where it won the award for Hot Docs Award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary, Best Canadian Feature Documentary. Synopsis The documentary follows a year in the life of 12-year-old Francine Valentine and her family during her involvement in a songwriting and recording program run by Art Starts. Valentine struggles with her lack of self-esteem and self-identity. The film is set against the backdrop of community gentrification and apparent lack of concern for her and her neighbourhood. Awards In December 2017, the Toronto International Film Festival named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian films. It won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammer (2019 Film)
''Hammer'' is a 2019 Canadian crime thriller film, directed by Christian Sparkes.Allie Gregory"Canadian Crime Thriller 'Hammer' Takes Audiences Off the Beaten Path" ''Exclaim!'', June 29, 2020. The film stars Will Patton as Stephen Davis, a man in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, whose estranged son Chris ( Mark O'Brien) double-crosses drug dealer Adams (Ben Cotton), forcing Stephen and Chris to reunite after Adams takes Stephen's younger son Jeremy ( Connor Price) hostage.Dennis Harvey"‘Hammer’: Film Review" ''Variety'', June 4, 2020. The cast also includes Vickie Papavs as Stephen's wife Karen, as well as Dayle McLeod, Curtis Caravaggio, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Jason Weinberg, Stephen Lush, Deidre Gillard-Rowlings and Trish Rainone in supporting roles. The film premiered in the Canadian Vanguard program at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, before going into commercial release on video on demand platform in 2020. Critical response Allie Gregory of ''Exclaim!'' wrote that "''Hammer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Cinematographers
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Tide
''The King Tide'' is a 2023 Canadian drama thriller film, directed by Christian Sparkes.John Hazelton"Toronto unveils 2023 Platform line-up; ‘Dream Scenario’ with Nicolas Cage to open" ''Screen Daily'', August 2, 2023. The film is set in a small island fishing village where a child turns up who has special, mystical powers, leading social order in the town to the brink of civil war as the residents disagree about whether the child was sent for a larger spiritual purpose.Etan Vlessing"Frances Fisher, Lara Jean Chorostecki Topline ‘The King Tide’ Thriller" ''The Hollywood Reporter'', December 1, 2022. Plot Infant Isla turns up one day in a shipwrecked boat, and is adopted and raised by the town's mayor Bobby Bentham (Clayne Crawford) and his wife Grace (Lara Jean Chorostecki), whose pregnancy ended in miscarriage shortly before Isla's discovery. It is soon discovered that Isla has healing powers to cure any ailment suffered by those who are near her, including the dementi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice, Darling
''Alice, Darling'' is a 2022 psychological thriller drama film directed by Mary Nighy, in her directorial debut, from a screenplay by Alanna Francis. The film stars Anna Kendrick, Kaniehtiio Horn, Charlie Carrick, and Wunmi Mosaku. ''Alice, Darling'' had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2022, and was released in select cinemas on December 30, 2022, in Los Angeles at the AMC Sunset 5, before a wide release later in the United States on January 20, 2023, in AMC Theatres. Plot Alice is in a psychologically abusive relationship with her boyfriend, Simon. After taking a vacation with friends, she decides to reassess her relationship with Simon and attempts to break her codependency. Simon allows Alice out for a rare evening at a bar with her two best friends Tess and Sophie. The women notice that she is distracted and flinches at each ping from her phone, and throughout the evening she constantly touches her hair. It is implied that A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Door Mouse
''Door Mouse'' is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Avan Jogia and released in 2023.Barry Hertz"Canadian thriller Door Mouse is a neo-noir oddity not even worth calling the exterminator about" ''The Globe and Mail'', January 12, 2023. The film stars Hayley Law as Mouse, a dancer at a burlesque club owned by Mama (Famke Janssen), who begins to investigate the disappearance of her friend and colleague Doe-Eyes (Nhi Do) when she cannot convince Mama or the police to take the matter seriously. The cast also includes Jogia, Keith Powers, Donal Logue, Landon Liboiron, Elizabeth Saunders, Emma Campbell, Leo Choy, Michela Cannon, Gabriel Carter, Dylan Cook, Latoya Webb and Darren W. Marynuk. The film was shot in spring 2021 in Sudbury, Ontario. It was screened in the Industry Selects program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, before premiering commercially on video on demand Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Range Roads
''Range Roads'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kyle Thomas and released in 2021 by Calgary-based production company North Country Cinema.Eric Volmers"The Quiet Road: Calgary filmmaker's sophomore film, Range Roads, a subtle drama about estranged siblings" ''Calgary Herald'', April 16, 2021. The film stars Alana Hawley Purvis as Frankie King, an actress who has been estranged from her family for many years but is returning home following the death of her parents, who must navigate continued tensions between her and her brother Grayson (Joe Perry). The cast also includes Nicole de Boer, Kris Demeanor, Jude Thomas, and Trevor Campbell, as well as the acting debut of country singer Chad Brownlee. The film had entered the planning stages in 2013, while Thomas's prior film ''The Valley Below'', whose cast included Hawley Purvis, Perry and Demeanor, was still in production, but due to the various other projects that Thomas and the cast were involved in and the challenges of raisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kid Detective
''The Kid Detective'' is a 2020 Canadian mystery comedy-drama film written and directed by Evan Morgan and starring Adam Brody, Sophie Nélisse, Wendy Crewson, Sarah Sutherland, and Tzi Ma. It was inspired by the ''Encyclopedia Brown'' book series. ''The Kid Detective'' was screened in the industry program at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.Jeremy Kay"‘After Love’, ‘Saint-Narcisse’, among 30 sales titles to join TIFF industry roster". ''Screen Daily'', September 1, 2020. It received a national theatrical release in the U.S. on October 16, 2020, as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States took hold. Plot As a child, Abe Applebaum was a local celebrity as a "kid detective", solving minor mysteries and crimes for the residents of the town of Willowbrook. When he was twelve, his close friend, Gracie Gulliver, disappeared. Despite his investigation, neither he nor the police were able to find her, leaving him traumatized. Now 32, Abe conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Jams
''Jesse Jams'' is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Trevor Anderson and released in 2020. The film is a portrait of Jesse Jams, a transgender First Nations musician from Edmonton, Alberta who formed the punk rock band Jesse Jams and the Flams as a tool of healing from his history of trauma and mental illness. The film premiered in March 2020 at Outfest Fusion. Concurrently with the release of the film, Jesse Jams and the Flams released ''You Don't Know Crazy'', an EP of some of the songs heard in the film. The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Short Documentary at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.Brent Furdyk"Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations" ''ET Canada ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'' (commonly shortened to ''ET Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series that aired on the Global Television Network from 2005 to 2023. Its branding and format were based on the American entertainm ...'', March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Going To Break Your Heart
''I'm Going to Break Your Heart'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Annie Bradley and Jim Morrison and released in 2019. The film profiles musicians Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk on a retreat in St. Pierre and Miquelon, detailing both their collaboration on the joint album ''Moon vs. Sun'' and their efforts to work on the fractures and conflicts that had emerged in their 19 years of marriage. The film had select theatrical screenings before premiering on Crave in May 2019. Reviewing the film for ''The Georgia Straight'', Ken Eisner opined that while Maida and Kreviazuk appeared to have been attempting to make a version of ''Once'', the 2007 drama film starring Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, the film instead played like a marginally more hopeful version of ''The Swell Season'', the later documentary film about the dissolution of Hansard and Irglová's marriage. The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Biography or Arts Documentary Program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award
The Canadian Screen Awards () 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 Academy Awards 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 Spain. History The award's historic r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Romantic
''The New Romantic'' is a 2018 Canadian romantic comedy-drama film, written and directed by Carly Stone. The film stars Jessica Barden as Blake Conway, a journalism student whose romance column receives attention when she begins to write about her experiences as a sugar baby. The film also stars Hayley Law, Brett Dier, Avan Jogia, Timm Sharp and Camila Mendes. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 11, 2018. It received a limited release in Canada on October 19, 2018, by Elevation Pictures. Plot Blake is a student journalist who writes a column about her love life, ''The Hopeless Romantic'', for her school paper. After her latest column her editor, River, cancels her column for being too dull, but offers to re-instate it if she came come up with more interesting material. On a night out with her roommate and best friend Nikki, Blake mistakenly has her ID swapped with the ID of another student. Blake goes to return the ID and meets Morgan who is with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
