Eric Lavallée

Yellow, a project noted back in January, appears to be Cassavetes' renewal with the indie form. Filming begins in L.A. next month, and sweet Oklahoma in mid-October.

With Black Venus, Kechiche will once again compete in Venice and the voluminous almost three hour drama will surely met with the same fate: critically applauded, difficult to market in North America. I'm crossing my fingers for a TIFF North American premiere to alter the film's fate.

The Toronto Int Film Festival have added tons of Canadian content sprawling across several sections and this year's Midnight Madness opener will be a rowdy one in Michael Dowse's Fubar II. Among the notable world premieres we have Jonathan Sobol's A Beginners Guide to Endings grabing a Gala screening and in the Special Presentations we'll have a green carpet premiere for Sturla Gunnarsson's Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie - she follows the 75 year-old environmentalist during his time outs, and Jacob Tierney will make it a back to back years of preeming at TIFF, after The Trotsky he'll show off Good Neighbours which stars Scott Speedman, Emily Hampshire and Jay Baruchel.

In a couple of hours from now, it's expected that TIFF will read off Denis Villeneuve's Incendies as one of the Canadian films selected for the fest. Not ready for Cannes, where he showed his films Next Floor (short) and Polytechnique in back to back years, Venice Film Festival's Venice Days sidebar plays host to the film's world premiere.

Alicja Bachleda (Ondine) and Columbus Short are set to star in, and Wilmer Valderrama and Jesse Spencer are attached to Julius Onah's feature debut, The Girl Is In Trouble. Recently profiled in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Onah, a NYU grad working on his thesis film supported by Tribeca Film Institute's All Access program is backed by Spike Lee who is exec producing and producing is Toy Closet Films' Robert Profusek and Ryan Silbert and Jen Gatien of DeerJen Films.