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Stars of Degrassi, the longrunning Canadian high school series that changed teen TV, had a class reunion on Saturday night at the Toronto Film Festival that nearly never happened. “We are thrilled to be here at TIFF and to celebrate this iconic series,” Carrie Mudd, producer of Degrass: Whatever It Takes, told a Scotiabank Theatre…
VENICE, TORONTO Documaker Gianfranco Rosi returns to his native Italy for this stunningly shot look at life at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, then and now. The film surveys Pompeii’s prized ruins; ventures into the tunnels beneath them, dug by tomb robbers selling antiquities on the black market; hovers over the Gulf of Naples to…
A feature documentary about Paul Shaffer, best known David Letterman’s longtime sidekick and Late Show bandleader, is in the works. The life rights to the story of the musician and TV personality from Thunder Bay, Ontario who got his start as the musical director of a 1972 Toronto stage production of Godspell have been acquired…
For his latest film, Joachim Trier is playing it straight. In his career to date, the Danish-Norwegian director has often pivoted between realism and moments where irony and the surreal puncture the everyday. Think of the dream-like narrative in his debut Reprise (2006) where the lives of two aspiring Oslo writers are told via jump-cut flash-forwards and imagined futures…
Musician Bif Naked, Pamela Carolina Martinez and Joshua Odjick are starring in Javier Badillo’s sci-fi comedy Lupe Q and the Galactic Earworms being shopped to international buyers at the Toronto Film Festival. Martinez stars as the titular Lupe, head of a Latinx punk rock band who discovers only her piercing musical scream can stop an…
Palestine has selected Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 as its official submission for the 2025 Academy Awards in the best international feature category. The historical drama is set in 1936 during the Palestinian revolt against British colonial rule. The film follows Yusuf, a young villager caught between his rural home and the political upheaval in Jerusalem,…
Oscar-winning director ’s The Eyes of Ghana, executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, is set to open the Toronto Film Festival’s Doc sidebar, organizers said Wednesday. Nova Scotia-raised and L.A.-based Proudfoot won his two Academy Awards for his short documentary films The Queen of Basketball and The Last Repair Shop that impressed Oscar voters…
The Ryan Reynolds-produced documentary John Candy: I Like Me from director Colin Hanks is set to open the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 4, organizers announced Wednesday. Reynolds, having come out of Canada like the late John Candy, has apparently been a lifelong fan of the Canadian funnyman and actor. So that should see the…
Romance for indie filmmakers Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer blossomed in the most unexpected of places — as they shot their 2020 debut feature Violation, a relentlessly violent and gory revenge drama set in cottage-country Canada. “After making our first film, which really dealt with trauma and was very dark, very painful to make and…
It’s been 28 years since Marianne Jean-Baptiste burst onto the international film scene in Mike Leigh‘s Secrets and Lies. The British actress was barely out of drama school when she got cast in the 1996 comedic drama playing Hortense, a Black middle-class professional who was adopted as a baby and, after the death of her…