Canadian Actors, Directors and Movies

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(May 21, 2013 - Toronto, Ontario) "On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the New York Film Festival last year, a perceptive critic for Salon.com wrote “film culture, at least in the sense people once used that phrase, is dead or dying.” Unfortunately, as someone who has covered the cinematic waterfront for more than 40 years, I can only concur." So begins a brief review of the state of filmmaking in the early 21st century by Northernstars Associate Editor, Wyndham Wise. Click here to read more.

	(May 17, 2013 - Toronto, Ontario) Mongrel Media has announced the acquisition of all Canadian rights to Inside Llewyn Davis, Written and directed by Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen, and co-produced by Scott Rudin, and the Coen brothers, the film stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham and Justin Timberlake. The film, which had its world premiere this past weekend, specifically Sunday May 19th, screening in competition at Cannes, tracks a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Look for Mongrel to release the film in Canada on December 20 with a wider release planned for January 2014.
	(May 17, 2013 - Toronto, Ontario) In a first-ever collaboration between two pioneering interactive media organizations, National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentarian Katerina Cizek will be working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenDocLab to develop the next production in the NFB’s multi-award-winning Highrise documentary project, a multi-year, multimedia, collaborative documentary experiment that explores the human experience in global vertical suburbs. Cizek, who was born in Waterloo, Ontario and has spent a number of years at the National Film Board, will begin work with the OpenDocLab team this fall, as part of MIT’s Visiting Artists Program and is expected to wrap her work at MIT by the middle of next year.
	(May 16, 2013 - Toronto, Ontario) The Toronto branch of the national union, ACTRA has announced its support for the introduction of the Private Member’s Bill - Protecting Child Performers Act, 2013 yesterday in Ontario’s Legislative Assembly. The bill as put forward by NDP MPP Paul Miller from Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, across Lake Ontario from Toronto."Children are an absolutely crucial component of our work," said ACTRA Toronto President David Sparrow. "ACTRA has worked hard to provide strong measures in our contracts that ensure child performers are protected."
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	Based on true events and laced with wry humour, Still Mine is a heartfelt love story about an 89-year-old New Brunswicker (James Cromwell) who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his wife (Geneviève Bujold) whose memory is starting to go.