Winners of the2022 Canadian Cinema Editors (CCE) Awardswere announced in person on May 26, 2022 at the Delta Hotel in Toronto. Congratulations to the following alum on their wins: Best Editing in Feature Film Rich Williamson–Scarborough
Seeing lovely Rednikova without her top is hardly cause for complaint, but supposedly the common wisdom among B-movie producers is that there must be a sex scene 20 minutes into a film. Seeing that "theory" brought so brazenly to life (particularly as the scene is barely even alluded to ...
Bailey’s piece already did due diligence in implicating “film schools, funders, distributors, festivals, and critics” in the purported malaise of navel-gazing cinema, while Funk agreed—I think earnestly and in good faith—that the kinds of diverse (in all senses of the word) narratives ...
Hilotrons:Theme from a Lonely Cinema (download track) - 2021 "This song is inspired by the works of Henry Mancini, Riz Ortolani, Ennio Morricone and the Ventures." Mike Dubue's description of his latest track ought to perk up the ears of music... ...
There were quite a few attempts, already in those early decades of cinema, to boost the fortune of the national film industry and to establish production companies and studios. These, however, with a few exceptions, did not last long enough to change the picture of the American-dominated ...
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA Bones of Crows: Unfolding over 100 years,Bones of Crowsis told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch Aline Spears as she survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and...
Up there with the quality of the actual performances, editing is the film’s invisible hand that guides the viewer on what’s important to see and what’s not – and when. This is one half of the recipe for what would eventually become live cinema. The other half is spontaneity ...
We will highlight genre cinema whenver and wherever we can. While its taking too long to see a rise in representation in genre communities we can be excited about Canadian productionSpiralbeing included in this year's lineup. One genre film. Out of 150 films in the...
"Polytechnique" Sweeps Controversially "Mother"-Less Canadian Film Awards With a staggering nine awards, Denis Villeneuve’s “Polytechnique” swept The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television’s controversial 30th annual Genie Awards, held on Toronto’s waterfront Monday night. The Quebecois filmmaker...
Pick any dozen classics of our national cinema and you will struggle to find a unifying theme or ethos, or indeed any shared feature at all besides the coincidence of their creators’ citizenship. And if what constitutes a Canadian film really is as simple as that – if all it can...