Miranda de Pencier, Paul Nutarariaq, and Anna Lambe on depression, reconciliation, and The Grizzlies
Director Miranda de Pencier and Indigenous actors Paul Nutarariaq and Anna Lambe talk about the true story behind the Canadian film, The Grizzlies.
Director Chris Butler talks about discovering his Missing Link
Writer, director, and stop motion animator Chris Butler has spent the better part of fifteen years working on his latest film, Missing Link (in theatres everywhere now), a labour of love about a sweet, naive primate and his friendship with an arrogant Victorian era adventurer that harkens back to the kinds of films he loved while growing up.
Director John Lee Hancock talks about the long road to The Highwaymen
Texan filmmaker John Lee Hancock is no stranger to tackling often uncelebrated and sometimes controversial historical figures, but the subjects of his latest reality based project, The Highwaymen (premiering on Netflix on Friday, March 29 and currently seeing a limited run at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto), have been stuck in the omnipresent shadows of the criminals they helped capture in 1934.
How Christopher Heard became a biographer to some of Hollywood’s elite
Sitting in a downtown Toronto hotel’s health club, dressed in a casual blue top, jeans and flip flops, Christopher Heard looks every bit as comfortable in this surroundings as he would in his own house. This should come as no surprise, as he has recently spent 2 years living in The Royal York hotel as a “Writer in Residence” while completing his latest book The Suite Life – The Magic and Mystery of Hotel Living.
Video interview: Singer Jann Arden judges ‘Canada Sings’
The Glee-ks will inherit the Earth, and in a new competition on Global Television, offices across Canada are getting their chance to prove what they can do on stage, all in the name of charity.
Emily Rose searches for Audrey Parker in TV’s ‘Haven’
In the supernatural drama Haven, actress Emily Rose stars as FBI agent Audrey Parker, a woman with a strange past who finds herself taking on unnatural forces in the town of Haven, Maine.
Video Interview: ‘Combat Hospital’ star Elias Koteas
On a warm day earlier this month, I toured through the dusty crossroads of a medical facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and I didn’t even have to leave the streets of Toronto.
Video Interview: The stars of ‘Blue Crush 2’
Director Mike Elliott hits the beach for Blue Crush 2, a sequel that follows the original surfing film nearly a decade later, taking a new direction on the topic of champion-level female surfers with an angle that aims a lot closer to home.
Rdio’s Carter Adamson talks music in the cloud
Looking into the future of music distribution offers a pretty clear vision of the next trend that will change the face of the industry–and how we listen to music–and it’s called music in the cloud, or cloud music.
Hot Docs interview: Mia Donovan, director of ‘Inside Lara Roxx’
In the spring of 2004, 21-year-old Lara Roxx left her hometown of Montreal and headed to L.A to try to make tons of cash in the adult entertainment industry. Within two months of working in this industry she contracted the most virulent form of HIV while performing sex in front of the camera. Inside Lara Roxx, a documentary premiering at this year’s Hot Docs film festival in Toronto, is about the adult movie industry and its impact on a young life.