Before walking the red carpet Sept. 11 for the world premiere of her third feature, the Sasheer Zamata-starring pic “The Weekend,” pictured above, Toronto-born writer-director Stella Meghie was feted with five other Canadian cinema artists at the sixth annual Birks Diamond Tribute to the Year’s Women in Film, co-presented with partner Telefilm Canada at a splashy private event Sept. 10.
Meghie, whose debut comedy “Jean of the Jones” screened here in 2016, and Quebec director Jeanne Leblanc, now at work on her second feature, “Les notres,” are honored in the Emerging Talent category, which was added this year.
Now based in L.A., Meghie, who is also an ambassador for Tiff’s Share Her Journey initiative, welcomes these kind of opportunities. “For the most part I try to stay focused on the work,” she told Variety, “But I’m happy to lend my voice and talk about the state of where...
Meghie, whose debut comedy “Jean of the Jones” screened here in 2016, and Quebec director Jeanne Leblanc, now at work on her second feature, “Les notres,” are honored in the Emerging Talent category, which was added this year.
Now based in L.A., Meghie, who is also an ambassador for Tiff’s Share Her Journey initiative, welcomes these kind of opportunities. “For the most part I try to stay focused on the work,” she told Variety, “But I’m happy to lend my voice and talk about the state of where...
- 9/9/2018
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Oh, Canada, our beloved upstairs neighbors. 2017 marks two essential anniversaries integral to the celebration of Canadian culture: the 150th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation (when British influence receded from Canadian lines allowing all colonies to unite as one nation) and the 50th anniversary of Canada’s Telefilm.
Read More: Tiff and Telefilm Canada Partner to Bring Best New Canadian Films to U.S.
Telefilm Canada is an appendage of the Canadian government that supplies monetary means and financial sponsoring of Canadian cinema. The platform as to which Telefilm functions is through the promotion of Canadian audiovisual talent of today and tomorrow. This year hales the second annual Canada Now film series which will be hosted at the IFC Center from April 6 – 9. Canada Now will screen Canada’s best films from the past year.
On the docket for this year’s screenings are Sundance award-winning “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World,...
Read More: Tiff and Telefilm Canada Partner to Bring Best New Canadian Films to U.S.
Telefilm Canada is an appendage of the Canadian government that supplies monetary means and financial sponsoring of Canadian cinema. The platform as to which Telefilm functions is through the promotion of Canadian audiovisual talent of today and tomorrow. This year hales the second annual Canada Now film series which will be hosted at the IFC Center from April 6 – 9. Canada Now will screen Canada’s best films from the past year.
On the docket for this year’s screenings are Sundance award-winning “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World,...
- 3/30/2017
- by Kerry Levielle
- Indiewire
Distinguished Canadian features from the last year to screen in New York from April 6-9 at IFC Center
Sundance selection Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World (pictured) will kick off the Canada Now: Best New Films From Canada 2017 series.
The second tour of Canadian excellence is presented in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in New York.
The series includes Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World, Kevan Funk’s Hello Destroyer, and Bruce McDonald’s Weirdos.
Rounding out the selection are Maliglutit (Searchers) from Zacharias Kunuk, Nettie Wild’s Koneline: Our Land Beautiful, Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany Of Rosie Ming) by Anne Marie Fleming, and Anne Émond’s Nelly.
“Celebrating in 2017 the 150th anniversary of Confederation across Canada, as well as Telefilm Canada’s 50th, is an opportunity to spotlight what makes Canada, and its cinema, so special—its rich diversity,” Carolle Brabant...
Sundance selection Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World (pictured) will kick off the Canada Now: Best New Films From Canada 2017 series.
The second tour of Canadian excellence is presented in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in New York.
The series includes Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World, Kevan Funk’s Hello Destroyer, and Bruce McDonald’s Weirdos.
Rounding out the selection are Maliglutit (Searchers) from Zacharias Kunuk, Nettie Wild’s Koneline: Our Land Beautiful, Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany Of Rosie Ming) by Anne Marie Fleming, and Anne Émond’s Nelly.
“Celebrating in 2017 the 150th anniversary of Confederation across Canada, as well as Telefilm Canada’s 50th, is an opportunity to spotlight what makes Canada, and its cinema, so special—its rich diversity,” Carolle Brabant...
- 3/10/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Toronto -- The Hot Docs documentary festival on Thursday said it will give Dutch filmmaker Heddy Honigmann, best known for her portraits of displaced people worldwide, an outstanding achievement award at its upcoming event.
North America's largest documentary festival also said it will stage a retrospective of documentaries by Canadian filmmaker Kevin McMahon, while giving Toronto-based documentary programmer Rudy Buttignol an outstanding industry achievement award.
Hot Docs programming director Sean Farnel cited Honigmann's ability to draw "moments of profound emotional honesty" from people as diverse as cab drivers in Peru and Iranian ex-patriates in Paris in explaining his choice for this year's outstanding achievement award.
Honigmann will attend Hot Docs in Toronto to receive the tribute on April 27. The festival also will present a retrospective of her work, including the 2001 "Good Husband, Dear Son," a portrait of women in post-war Sarajevo who lost their sons or husbands, and "Metal and Melancholy," a 1993 film about cowboy taxi drivers in Peru.
Hot Docs also has programmed Honigmann's latest documentary, "Forever," which is set in Paris' famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
Past recipients of the Hot Docs outstanding achievement award include Errol Morris, D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Albert Maysles and Werner Herzog.
In addition, Hot Docs will present "Focus on Kevin McMahon," a retrospective of documentaries from the co-founder of Primitive Entertainment.
McMahon's credits include the 1991 film "The Falls," a portrait of Niagara Falls; "Intelligence" (1998); and "Truth Merchants" (1998) a critique of public relations in the media.
Other filmmakers to receive 'Focus On ..." retrospectives at Hot Docs include Serge Giguere, Larry Weinstein, Nettie Wild, Shelley Saywell and Zacharias Kunuk.
Hot Docs also said that Rudy Buttingnol, most recently creative head of network programming at TVOntario for six years to 2006, will receive the first annual outstanding industry achievement award.
The 14th annual Hot Docs festival runs April 19-29.
North America's largest documentary festival also said it will stage a retrospective of documentaries by Canadian filmmaker Kevin McMahon, while giving Toronto-based documentary programmer Rudy Buttignol an outstanding industry achievement award.
Hot Docs programming director Sean Farnel cited Honigmann's ability to draw "moments of profound emotional honesty" from people as diverse as cab drivers in Peru and Iranian ex-patriates in Paris in explaining his choice for this year's outstanding achievement award.
Honigmann will attend Hot Docs in Toronto to receive the tribute on April 27. The festival also will present a retrospective of her work, including the 2001 "Good Husband, Dear Son," a portrait of women in post-war Sarajevo who lost their sons or husbands, and "Metal and Melancholy," a 1993 film about cowboy taxi drivers in Peru.
Hot Docs also has programmed Honigmann's latest documentary, "Forever," which is set in Paris' famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
Past recipients of the Hot Docs outstanding achievement award include Errol Morris, D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Albert Maysles and Werner Herzog.
In addition, Hot Docs will present "Focus on Kevin McMahon," a retrospective of documentaries from the co-founder of Primitive Entertainment.
McMahon's credits include the 1991 film "The Falls," a portrait of Niagara Falls; "Intelligence" (1998); and "Truth Merchants" (1998) a critique of public relations in the media.
Other filmmakers to receive 'Focus On ..." retrospectives at Hot Docs include Serge Giguere, Larry Weinstein, Nettie Wild, Shelley Saywell and Zacharias Kunuk.
Hot Docs also said that Rudy Buttingnol, most recently creative head of network programming at TVOntario for six years to 2006, will receive the first annual outstanding industry achievement award.
The 14th annual Hot Docs festival runs April 19-29.
- 8/18/2008
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
VANCOUVER -- Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine took the Air Canada People's Choice Award at the 21st Vancouver International Film Festival, which closed Friday night. An estimated 150,000 people attended the 16-day festival, a new record. This year, the festival added new screening rooms and featured a more playful "Hollywood/Bollywood" theme than the political themes of recent years. Other winners included Andrew Cheng's Shanghai Panic (Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema), Lee Chang-Dong's Oasis Chief Dan George Humanitarian Award) and Peter Mettler's Gambling, Gods and L.S.D. (National Film Board Best Documentary). Director Jane McGregor won the Women in Film and Video Artistic Merit Award for her films Flowers & Garnet and Bitten. The Federal Express Award for Most Popular Canadian Film was shared by two films, Deborah Day's Expecting and Fix: The Story of an Addicted City, by Nettie Wild. The Telefilm Canada awards for Best Emerging Western Canadian Director were won by Keith Behrman (feature-length) and Michelle Porter (short). The new Citytv Western Canadian Screenwriter Award went to Nicholas Racz for The Burial Society. The awards were presented before a gala screening of Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, which closed the festival.
- 10/14/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Unveiled at last year's Berlin Film Festival, Canadian documentarian Nettie Wild's informative, evocative film about the Zapatista movement in the Mexican state of Chiapas leaves one wanting to know more about the subject -- a "regional hotspot" that's a lot closer than Kosovo. The filmmakers accomplish their goal of getting one's attention.
Opening for a limited engagement at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica, "A Place Called Chiapas" includes extensive sequences with the indigenous Mayan people, masked followers of charismatic military leader Marcos, ranch owners displaced by the Zapatista uprising of January 1994 and government-allied paramilitary soldiers controlling the northern part of the state.
From June 1996-February 1997, Wild and a Canadian-Mexican crew chronicled the events of the "uneasy peace" that followed the brief, bloody Zapatista campaign. After taking over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico and using the Internet and news media to declare their goals, Marcos and the Zapatista National Liberation Army engage in peace negotiations that are strained to begin with and ultimately prove inconclusive.
While the movement's namesake Emiliano Zapata, the fiery, betrayed leader of Mexico's 1910 revolution, was publicity shy, Marcos is telegenic, articulate and a post-modern warrior-poet with his features always hidden. A mestizo from Mexico City, whose favorite book is "Don Quixote", he rides a horse and smokes a pipe and his basic, gun-toting outfit has inspired a line of dolls.
There are No Battles or violent scenes filmed by Wild, but the atmosphere is tense, even at a "post-glasnost revolutionary Woodstock" held by Marcos with international guests. Surrounded by the Mexican army and allied paramilitary forces, the Zapatistas seem committed to maintaining peace, particularly with the official indifference and outright antagonism from the country's self-destructing ruling party in Mexico City.
Offering no solutions to the ongoing situation but focusing on the plight of refugee villagers displaced by the "Peace and Justice" paramilitary group in northern Chiapas, the well-balanced but energetic and alive film concludes with a surprise Day of the Dead one-on-one with Marcos, who speaks somberly of "coexisting with death," and not being terrified of fighting and dying for one's beliefs.
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
Zeitgeist Films
A Canada Wild production
Director: Nettie Wild
Producers: Nettie Wild, Betsy Carson, Kirk Tougas
Writers: Manfred Becker, Nettie Wild
Cinematographers: Kirk Tougas, Nettie Wild
Editor: Manfred Becker
Music: Joseph Pepe Danza, Salvador Ferreras, Celso Machado, Laurence Mollerup
Color
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA Rating...
Opening for a limited engagement at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica, "A Place Called Chiapas" includes extensive sequences with the indigenous Mayan people, masked followers of charismatic military leader Marcos, ranch owners displaced by the Zapatista uprising of January 1994 and government-allied paramilitary soldiers controlling the northern part of the state.
From June 1996-February 1997, Wild and a Canadian-Mexican crew chronicled the events of the "uneasy peace" that followed the brief, bloody Zapatista campaign. After taking over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico and using the Internet and news media to declare their goals, Marcos and the Zapatista National Liberation Army engage in peace negotiations that are strained to begin with and ultimately prove inconclusive.
While the movement's namesake Emiliano Zapata, the fiery, betrayed leader of Mexico's 1910 revolution, was publicity shy, Marcos is telegenic, articulate and a post-modern warrior-poet with his features always hidden. A mestizo from Mexico City, whose favorite book is "Don Quixote", he rides a horse and smokes a pipe and his basic, gun-toting outfit has inspired a line of dolls.
There are No Battles or violent scenes filmed by Wild, but the atmosphere is tense, even at a "post-glasnost revolutionary Woodstock" held by Marcos with international guests. Surrounded by the Mexican army and allied paramilitary forces, the Zapatistas seem committed to maintaining peace, particularly with the official indifference and outright antagonism from the country's self-destructing ruling party in Mexico City.
Offering no solutions to the ongoing situation but focusing on the plight of refugee villagers displaced by the "Peace and Justice" paramilitary group in northern Chiapas, the well-balanced but energetic and alive film concludes with a surprise Day of the Dead one-on-one with Marcos, who speaks somberly of "coexisting with death," and not being terrified of fighting and dying for one's beliefs.
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
Zeitgeist Films
A Canada Wild production
Director: Nettie Wild
Producers: Nettie Wild, Betsy Carson, Kirk Tougas
Writers: Manfred Becker, Nettie Wild
Cinematographers: Kirk Tougas, Nettie Wild
Editor: Manfred Becker
Music: Joseph Pepe Danza, Salvador Ferreras, Celso Machado, Laurence Mollerup
Color
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA Rating...
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