Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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Olin’s The Angel and Samantha Morton’s The Unloved among TIFF’s 21 Discovery Titles

It's world cinema at your fingertips. TIFF have announced 21 offerings for their Discovery sidebar mostly gathered from international film festivals not including Berlin, Venice or Cannes. Among the 21, we find seven world premieres from the likes of Margreth Olin (The Angel) and J.Blakeson (The Disappearance of Alice Creed).

Solondz, Audiard and Almodovar Among TiFF’s Special Presentations

Sony Pictures Classics will showcasing Broken Embraces, An Education and one of the best pictures of the year in A Prophet to North American audiences, while TIFF's North American premiere of Todd Solondz's latest means that Life During Wartime will be in Venice as well.

Videocracy among 10 Selected for Venice’s 24th Critics’ Week

Before the big announcement next week, Venice unveiled the line-up for the 24th edition of the Critics’ Week with ten world premieres with a mix that includes three titles from Sweden and a pair from Iran.

Milestone Restores & Celebrates 50th Anniversary of ‘Araya’

Following up on from the vault releases of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles (a pair of films which I have criminally still yet to see), Milestone Films has restored and presenting what is labeled as a Venezuelan Masterwork called Araya.

Prada, Valentino, Chanel and Vogue: Fashion & Film a Profitable Mix?

Is there a correlation between those who wear the latest trends and the popularity of fiction and non-fiction films that have fashion in the foreground? If we take a look at the numbers, all indicts oui, there is money to be made if the narrative or docu subject is somehow related to haute couture.

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The Pragmatic Mother: Carey Mulligan Cast in Sarah Polley’s ‘The Bell Jar’

Currently in production in Toronto, we now know the...

2026 World Cinema Fund: Ana Cristina Barragán, Amanda Nell Eu & Lara Zeidan Receive Coin

Projects from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ecuador, Lebanon, Malaysia,...
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