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May 26, 2006

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Film Club Newsletter - May 26, 2006

1. Opening - SOUVENIR OF CANADA & ESCAPE TO CANADA
2. Festivals - Don't miss the end of Inside Out or the DOXA Documentary Festival!
3. Now Playing
4. Coming Soon

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1. Opening - SOUVENIR OF CANADA & ESCAPE TO CANADA

a) SOUVENIR OF CANADA
Friday, May 26th - Toronto & Vancouver
http://www.souvenirofcanada.com/

Come join Douglas Coupland, one of our greatest national voices, on a hilarious, cinematic joyride.

SOUVENIR OF CANADA joins internationally celebrated author Douglas Coupland (Generation X, jPod) on a journey to find out what makes Canadians, Canadians. Coupland seeks out the answers in the darnedest of places: like stubby beer bottles, Ookpiks, bilingual cereal boxes and Terry’s Fox’s worn-out sock. His dream is to build a “Canada House” to house all these unique pop objects and memories, that only Canadians will understand.

Rife with humour, nostalgia and insight, SOUVENIR OF CANADA is the movie event that has critics raving and audiences buzzing.

b) ESCAPE TO CANADA
Monday, May 29th - Vancouver
http://www.viff.org/tixSYS/vifc/filmguide/event.php?EventNumber=1123

The "Cantastic" ESCAPE TO CANADA will be closing the DOXA Film Festival in Vancouver this Sunday at 7 pm (see below for details). Director Albert Nerenberg and the possibly soon-to-be-extradited "Prince of Pot," Marc Emery, will be in attendance. Guaranteed to be an over the top performance.

Sunday May, 28th at 7 pm at the Granville 7 in Vancouver.

ESCAPE TO CANADA then opens commercially at the Vancity Theatre. Playing from May 29th to June 7th.

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2. Festivals - Don't miss the end of Inside Out or the DOXA Documentary Festival!

a) Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
May 18th to May 28th
http://www.insideout.ca

Precocious right out of the gate, Toronto's annual Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival has been challenging the status quo and shaking the foundations of sexual politics since the dawn of the '90s.

Bigger and more audacious than ever, the 16th edition of Inside Out features a brand new programmer and creative force in Gary Varro, 269 films from a record number of countries (27), and a featured geographical film mecca - Latin America - whose creative output is provocative, thought-provoking and "hot."

Festival screenings take place at two venues, Isabel Bader Theatre and the Royal Ontario Museum. In addition, free community screenings will be held at the NFB Cinema. Ticket prices are $9.50 & $10.50 (plus gst) for regular screenings, and $22 & $27 (plus gst) for Galas. Youth and senior discounts are also available.

Tickets went on sale Friday, May 5th through the website http://www.insideout.ca and at the Inside Out advance box office, Festival Ticketing, located inside the Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor Street West, main floor.

b) DOXA Documentary Film and Video Festival, Vancouver
May 23rd to May 28th
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/doxa/

The 2006 DOXA Documentary Film and Video Festival marks the Festival's fifth edition and features six days of innovative and groundbreaking documentaries from Canada and the world - discover a whole cast of renegades, dreamers, lovers, outcasts, inventors, escapees and insomniacs.

This year features programs selected by guest curators, filmmaker Jessica Meistrich Gidal and writer/film reviewer Katherine Monk, and competitions for best feature and short documentary.

The Closing Night film is Albert Nerenberg's ESCAPE TO CANADA. The film will close the Festival before beginning a commercial run at the VIFF theatre. The action-packed 80-minute film exposes Canada's 'Summer of Love,' when same-sex marriage spread from province to province, and marijuana cafes opened across the land. This feature documentary suggests that Vancouver is driving Canada's freedom movements. The film will run commercially from May 29th to May 31st and from June 6th to June 7th at the Vancouver International Film Centre & VanCity Theatre.

For more information, visit the Festival's website.

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3. Now Playing

FILM CIRCUIT: Visit the website at http://www.filmcircuit.ca/ to see which Canadian films are playing near you. You can also check out http://www.cinemaclock.com/ to see what other films may be playing in your town.

a) Hard Candy
ON
http://www.hardcandymovie.com/

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4. Coming Soon

If you know of any upcoming film festivals or events happening across the country, please be sure to email the details to filmclub@thismagazine.ca.

a) North by Northeast Music & Film Conference and Festival, Toronto
June 8th to June 10th, 2006
http://www.nxne.com

b) Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto
June 13th to June 18th, 2006
http://www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com

c) Splice This! Super 8 Festival, Toronto
June 23rd to June 25th, 2006
http://www.splicethis.com/home.php

d) 6th Annual Nickel Independent Film and Video Festival, St. John's
July 18th to July 22nd, 2006
http://nickelfestival.com/

e) The Crew
8pm MT, Tuesdays, August 15th, 2006 to September 18th, 2006
Access Television
http://www.accesstv.ca/

The various technical positions that make up a film production unit are the focus of THE CREW, a six-part series that provides a rare view of the inside workings of a professional shoot. Director Michael Douse (himself an experienced industry professional) was given unprecedented insider access to many of the hottest shows shooting in British Columbia, and his insider’s look at the workings of the film crew provides invaluable information to anyone interested in breaking into the film industry.

f) The Hamster Cage
Fall 2006
http://www.hamstercagethemovie.com/

g) Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival, Toronto
October 27th to October 29th, 2006
http://www.fwifft.com/

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Submitted by a Film Club Subscriber: Visit the Motion Picture Bureau (http://www.mpb.ca), a small film production company based in Toronto. The website includes essays, links and films that might be of interest to cinephiles in Canada and around the world!

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Posted by annette FC at 07:24 AM

May 19, 2006

THIS Magazine's Film Club

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1st Rule of Film Club: Tell Everyone About Film Club!

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Film Club Newsletter - May 19, 2006

1. Festivals - Don't miss Inside Out or the DOXA Documentary Festival!
2. Now Playing - HARD CANDY in Calgary & Toronto
3. Coming Soon

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1. Festivals - Don't miss Inside Out or the DOXA Documentary Festival!

a) Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
May 18th to May 28th
http://www.insideout.ca

Johnny-come-lately TransAmerica may have taken the transgender experience to the Oscar mainstream this year, but Inside Out has been ahead of that wave from the beginning and carries on with a plethora of transgender films from near and far. A program of trans features and feature-length documentaries will complement the always much-talked-about trans shorts program, this year entitled Reel Trans. Other trans-themed work in the Festival this year includes Enough Man, Wild Side, 20 Centimetres, Tropic of Capricorn, Butterflies, and Rosario Miranda, to name a few.

In a musical vein, Inside Out presents Backalley Jukebox (a program consisting of rare queer music videos); Pick Up The Mic, a documentary about queer hip-hop artists; Life In A Box - an intimate look at the on-the-road travels and travails of the gay musical duo Y'All; and Is It Really So Strange?, a much-anticipated profile of the elusive British artist Morrissey that explores a weird offshoot fan base of the artist and his seminal band The Smiths - with Latino youths in East Los Angeles.

For married and family audiences, Inside Out has a number of family-oriented features and programs, including free all-ages screenings at the NFB Cinema that play from 1 p.m. all day on Saturday, May 20th. As well, on Monday May 22, there's a special free 1 p.m. screening of Charlotte's Web, the 1973 animated adaptation of the E.B. White classic children's novel, followed by Transparent, an engaging documentary about female-to male transsexuals who've given birth and must reconcile their motherhood with their masculine identity.

There's also Beaver Valley, curated by CBC host Jane Farrow, the lesbian shorts program that riffs on Brokeback Mountain themes, from tearful to screamingly funny. The program features eight films from Canada, Germany, Hungary, and USA.

Back for its eighth year at the festival, the annual Queer Youth Digital Video Project has been a popular initiative of Inside Out. A mentorship program, it features seven first-time videomakers, between the ages of 17 and 24, who learn all facets of video production within a series of workshops. They will all have their debut at a special Festival screening.

Finally, what would a 16-year-old diva be without a gala or four? Inside Out's traditional program of three gala features has grown by one, to include an event called "Another Gay Gala." AGG will showcase the comedy feature Another Gay Film, which is described as "American Pie crossed with Porky's for the queer set."

Festival screenings will take place at two venues, Isabel Bader Theatre and the Royal Ontario Museum. In addition, free community screenings will be held at the NFB Cinema. Ticket prices are $9.50 & $10.50 (plus gst) for regular screenings, and $22 & $27 (plus gst) for Galas. Youth and senior discounts are also available.

b) DOXA Documentary Film and Video Festival, Vancouver
May 23rd to May 28th
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/doxa/

This year features programs selected by guest curators, filmmaker Jessica Meistrich Gidal and writer/film reviewer Katherine Monk, and competitions for best feature and short documentary.

The opening night gala is the world premiere of SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability, the return to filmmaking for Canada's legendary Bonnie Sherr Klein. The award-winning director is returning to filmmaking after a catastrophic stroke changed her life in 1987. From this unique perspective, she brings the audience into her new world of disability culture. Art, activism and disability are the starting point in what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals, including Klein herself.

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2. Now Playing

a) Hard Candy
AB, ON
http://www.hardcandymovie.com/

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3. Coming Soon

If you know of any upcoming film festivals or events happening across the country, please be sure to email the details to filmclub@thismagazine.ca.

a) North by Northeast Music & Film Conference and Festival, Toronto
June 8th to June 10th, 2006
http://www.nxne.com

b) Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto
June 13th to June 18th, 2006
http://www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com

c) Splice This! Super 8 Festival, Toronto
June 23rd to June 25th, 2006
http://www.splicethis.com/home.php

d) 6th Annual Nickel Independent Film and Video Festival, St. John's
July 18th to July 22nd, 2006
http://nickelfestival.com/

e) The Crew
8pm MT, Tuesdays, August 15th, 2006 to September 18th, 2006
Access Television
http://www.accesstv.ca/

f) Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival, Toronto
October 27th to October 29th, 2006
http://www.fwifft.com/

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Visit the award-winning Northern Stars® website, devoted to Canadian actors and actresses, directors and films: http://www.northernstars.ca/nowplaying_2.html.

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Please let us know about any other Canadian screenings going on anywhere and everywhere and we will do our best to include the details in our postings.

If you would like to volunteer or subscribe to THIS Magazine's Film Club newsletter, please send an email to filmclub@thismagazine.ca.

Remember...1st Rule of Film Club: Tell Everyone About Film Club!

Posted by annette FC at 11:01 AM

May 11, 2006

May 12, 2006

THIS Magazine's Film Club

Show your support for Film Club and subscribe to THIS Magazine: http://www.thismagazine.ca/subscribe/.

1st Rule of Film Club: Tell Everyone About Film Club!

Please forward to your friends, acquaintances and just about anyone else you can think of. Show your support of our national cinema by checking out a Canadian film.

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Film Club Newsletter - May 12, 2006

1. Festivals - digifest, Inside Out & Mobifest!
2. Now Playing - HARD CANDY and THE ROCKET
3. Coming Soon

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1. Festivals

a) digifest, Toronto
May 10th to May 14th, 2006
http://www.dx.org/digifest

digifest is an annual International Festival of Design and Media Culture presented by Design Exchange in partnership with Harbourfront Centre and Ontario Science Centre.

digifest aims to encourage excellence in interactive digital media design and technology and supports the creators of new applications and content that will provide lasting economic, cultural and social benefits to Canadians. Each year, local and international designers and artists are invited to share the latest in cutting edge digital products, innovations and ideas.

For more information, visit the website.

b) Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
May 18th to May 28th
http://www.insideout.ca

c) Mobifest, Toronto
May 17th, 2006
http://www.mobifest.ca

Tickets are now on sale for Mobifest - Canada's first mobile film festival, created to recognize excellence and innovation in made-for-mobile films.

Festival tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the MobiFest Web site, by phone at 416-967-1528, or in person at The Festival Box Office, Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Tickets will also be available at the door. The event takes place May 17, 2006 at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. Doors open at 6 PM and movie screenings will begin at 7 PM.

The international competition is the first film festival of its kind, in that it is exclusively mobile - all film content is shot and created specifically for the "small screen" - either for a mobile phone, smartphone or other handheld device.

Films will be judged on mobile aesthetics, audience impact and degree of creativity in the following three categories:
· Best Canadian Mobile Film - Entrants must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
· Best of Festival - Films will be judged for originality and unique use of the medium.
· Best "Caught on Treo" - This special award recognizes innovation in movies shot and edited exclusively on a Palm(R) Treo(TM) smartphone.

Award-winning films will premiere on Movieola - The Short Film Channel and also have a special screening on Air Canada flights throughout the summer of 2006. The Best of Festival winner also will receive a mobile movie production package, valued at $1,500, and be invited to be part of the judging panel for Mobifest 2007.

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2. Now Playing

a) Hard Candy
BC, ON, NS
http://www.hardcandymovie.com/

b) The Rocket
Various
http://www.therocketmovie.com

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3. Coming Soon

If you know of any upcoming film festivals or events happening across the country, please be sure to email the details to filmclub@thismagazine.ca.

a) North by Northeast Music & Film Conference and Festival, Toronto
June 8th to June 10th, 2006
http://www.nxne.com

b) Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto
June 13th to June 18th, 2006
http://www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com

c) Splice This! Super 8 Festival, Toronto
June 23rd to June 25th, 2006
http://www.splicethis.com/home.php

d) 6th Annual Nickel Independent Film and Video Festival, St. John's
July 18th to July 22nd, 2006
http://nickelfestival.com/

e) The Crew
8pm MT, Tuesdays, August 15th, 2006 to September 18th, 2006
Access Television
http://www.accesstv.ca/

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Visit the award-winning Northern Stars® website, devoted to Canadian actors and actresses, directors and films: http://www.northernstars.ca/nowplaying_2.html.

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Please let us know about any other Canadian screenings going on anywhere and everywhere and we will do our best to include the details in our postings.

If you would like to volunteer or subscribe to THIS Magazine's Film Club newsletter, please send an email to filmclub@thismagazine.ca.

Remember...1st Rule of Film Club: Tell Everyone About Film Club!

Posted by annette FC at 11:06 PM

May 05, 2006

May 5, 2006

THIS Magazine's Film Club

Show your support for Film Club and subscribe to THIS Magazine: http://www.thismagazine.ca/subscribe/.

1st Rule of Film Club: Tell Everyone About Film Club!

Please forward to your friends, acquaintances and just about anyone else you can think of. Show your support of our national cinema by checking out a Canadian film.

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Film Club Newsletter - May 5, 2006

1. Opening - LA RAGE DE L'ANGE
2. Festivals - End of HotDocs, plus digifest!
3. Call for Submissions (Toronto)
4. Now Playing - HARD CANDY and THE ROCKET
5. Coming Soon

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1. Opening

a) LA RAGE DE L'ANGE
Friday, May 5 - Vancouver

Written and directed by Dan Bigras, LA RAGE DE L'ANGE (Angel’s Rage) is a story about the love and friendship that unites Francis, Lune and Éric, three enraged angels, through thick and thin, from their stormy childhoods, to finding refuge in the street at adolescence, right up until reaching adulthood. Theirs is a story of resilience and rebuilding. A story about the price of violence and the strength of love.

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2. Festivals - End of HotDocs, plus digifest!

a) Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, Toronto
April 28th to May 7th, 2006
http://www.hotdocs.ca

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary festival. Each year, the Festival presents a selection of over 100 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Through its industry programmes, the Festival also provides a full range of professional development, market and networking opportunities for documentary professionals.

Visit the website for schedule and ticket information.

NOTICE: The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) showcases six more films at the 13th Edition of Hot Docs, Canada¹s foremost festival for documentaries (April 28th to May 7th). With stories that span the globe and the imagination, from Bombay to West Bank, from Chile to China, these films explore our humanity and what shapes it.

1) Bombay Calling
Canadian Premiere
May 2 at 9 pm at the Bloor Cinema
May 5 at 1 pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre

2) Cottonland
World Premiere
May 3 at 6:45 pm at the Al Green Theatre
May 5 at 3:30 pm at the ROM Theatre

3) Exiles in Lotusland (Le Méchant Trip)
May 3 at 9:45 pm at the Al Green Theatre
May 5 at 6:45 pm at the Innis Town Hall

4) Life Inside Out
World Premiere
May 2 at 9:15 pm at the ROM Theatre
May 5 at 9:30 pm ROM Theatre

5) The Dark Side of the White Lady (Le Côté obscure de la dame blanche)
May 2 at 7:15 pm at the Al Green Theatre
May 7 at 4:30 pm Innis Town Hall

6) The Fight for True Farming (Pas de Pays Sans Paysans)
May 4 at 9:30 pm at Innis Town Hall
May 7 at 2:15 pm at Innis Town Hall

NFB at Hot Docs: The NFB is proud to host NFB Coffee Talks 2006 from May 2nd to May 5th.

b) digifest, Toronto
May 10th to May 14th, 2006
http://www.dx.org/digifest

digifest is an annual International Festival of Design and Media Culture presented by Design Exchange in partnership with Harbourfront Centre and Ontario Science Centre.

For more information, visit the website.

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3. Now Playing

a) Hard Candy
Various
http://www.hardcandymovie.com/

b) The Rocket
Various
http://www.therocketmovie.com

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4. Coming Soon

If you know of any upcoming film festivals or events happening across the country, please be sure to email the details to filmclub@thismagazine.ca.

a) North by Northeast Music & Film Conference and Festival, Toronto
June 8th to June 10th, 2006
http://www.nxne.com

b) Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto
June 13th to June 18th, 2006
http://www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com

c) Splice This! Super 8 Festival, Toronto
June 23rd to June 25th, 2006
http://www.splicethis.com/home.php

d) The Crew
8pm MT, Tuesdays, August 15th, 2006 to September 18th, 2006
Access Television
http://www.accesstv.ca/

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Visit the award-winning Northern Stars® website, devoted to Canadian actors and actresses, directors and films: http://www.northernstars.ca/nowplaying_2.html.

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Please let us know about any other Canadian screenings going on anywhere and everywhere and we will do our best to include the details in our postings.

If you would like to volunteer or subscribe to THIS Magazine's Film Club newsletter, please send an email to filmclub@thismagazine.ca.

Remember...1st Rule of Film Club: Tell Everyone About Film Club!

Posted by annette FC at 07:38 AM