Toronto Film Festival Launches With Animal Rights Protest

A glaring set of statistics if there ever was one: in Canada, between 2017 and 2019, the percentage of Indigenous women responsible for our television and cinematic writing — zero. Directing? Zero. Cinematography? Zero.

Disney+ is jumping onto the co-viewing bandwagon with a new feature called GroupWatch. The experience, which launches Tuesday in the U.S.

Naman Ramachandran Julie Bristow, former CEO and president of Bristow Global Media (BGM), has launched The Content Catalyst Fund (CCF). The initiative will focus on content developed, delivered and designed by women and about women.Based in Canada, with an international reach, CCF will develop and invest in unscripted and scripted content, with an initial focus on unscripted.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has taken its fourth major title in the 2020 Toronto Film Festival Market with a deal for I Care a Lot, the J Blakeson-directed dark comic satire that stars Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza Gonzalez and Chris Messina. I’m told the deal is near $10 million for U.S.

Ryan Reynolds is doing his bit in a bid to have more Black, Indigenous and people of colour on film sets.

Ben Croll Though Canada’s National Film Board has invested in interactive projects for well over a decade, 2020 has proven to be a banner year for the publicly funded organization, as three of their VR productions made waves across the international festival circuit.This past January, director Randall Okita’s “The Book of Distance” premiered at Sundance, kicking off a yearlong festival tour that took the immersive doc from Tribeca to Bucheon to Venice.

Schitt’s Creek reunited in-person to celebrate the 72nd annual Emmys Awards on Sunday, September 20, from Toronto, Canada.Although the awards show went virtual due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Emmy-nominated stars dined side-by-side while watching the show together.“Tonight, some Schitt’s Creek cast and nominated team members have been able to gather for an #Emmys event in Toronto, adhering to Ontario’s COVID-19 guidelines,” the show’s Twitter page announced ahead of the event.

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Film Review: Frances McDormand Hits the Road in Quiet, Lyrical DramaOver the last eight years in a row, and nine of the last 10 years, the TIFF People’s Choice winner has gone on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and has won three times: “The King’s Speech” in 2010, “12 Years a Slave” in 2013 and “Green Book” in 2018.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorChloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” which took the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, has won the top People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.The win bodes well for the film’s Oscar chances. In the last decade, every winner has gone on to earn a best picture nomination at the Academy Awards.

Sudan documentary maker Hajooj Kuka, a new member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and one of five artists recently jailed in Khartoum, has received a call for an immediate release by the Toronto Film Festival. "Hajooj Kuka is an exceptional filmmaker.

As Hollywood location shooting in Canada slowly reopens, the country's overstretched COVID-19 rescue funds for indie film and TV producers has received another injection from the federal government. The Canada Media Fund, a key investor in local TV series using in part public funds, announced another $19 million for its COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund on Thursday.

canceled altogether, while this month’s New York Film Festival will mix mostly online viewing with a few outdoor screenings in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx. Only Venice has been totally brick-and-mortar.The pandemic has taught us a few things: For starters, more straight-to-digital releases from major studios will come in the future and many of us will work from home indefinitely.

WarnerMedia has brought its studio-wide drive towards greater diversity and inclusion to Canada. The media giant has unveiled a new Canadian talent development team to bolster representation of diverse and under-represented creators in front of and behind the camera north of the border.

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe feature documentary “The Curve,” which examines the decisions that led to America’s COVID-19 crisis, is being shopped around at the Toronto International Film Festival by Jet Black Iris Productions.Directed by Academy Award-nominee Adam Benzine (“Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah”) and featuring an original score by Emmy-winning composer Joel Goodman, the film traces the crucial three-month period, from mid-January to mid-April, when the choices made by

Shamier Anderson holds up a phone with Halle Berry Facetiming into the premiere of Bruised during the 2020 Toronto Film Festival in Canada on Saturday (September 12).

Julien Christian Lutz — better known as Director X and his signature music videos for Drake, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa, Usher and Justin Bieber — has his own name for Canada's annual advertising award shows:The Whities. "The room is unreasonably White.

Also Read: 'David Byrne's American Utopia' Film Review: Byrne and Spike Lee Burn Down the House With StyleHis parents Paul and Leann — both veterans themselves — rally to their son’s defense, and the next few years involve attempted defections to Russia and Venezuela, an application for asylum in Canada, a car accident on a snowy highway, allegations of government torture and interrogation using the drug Thorazine, and activists and journalists seeking to help out Matt, particularly in the wake

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The 2020 Toronto International Film Festival is now requiring moviegoers to wear masks while attending screenings during the event.