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TIFF 2010: Canadian Content from Villeneuve, McDonald, Dolan, Bélanger, Tierney and Dowse!
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.
Secrets & Lies: Trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies
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.
Bachleda and Columbus Short Find ‘Trouble’ in Julius Onah’s Debut
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.
Make that Three Gallo Films in Venice: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing added to Comp
Vincent Gallo will be the toast of the Lido this year. Gallo who is showing his short film The Agent, in the Horizons sections and his feature length film, Promises Written in Water received an in competition slot which will oddly go up against a Gallo-starring crazy-looking thriller "Essential Killing," makes its world preem at the Venice Film Festival.
Free Viewing: Erik Gandini’s Videocracy
If you didn't manage to catch it in theaters earlier this year via Lorber Films, Erik Gandini's Videocracy, a 2009 Venice and TIFF selection is now available for free via SnagFilms. Part of their annual Summer Screening Series, for a limited time only, you can see how the Berlusconi (the media mogul and then politician) went T&A with its television programming
