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TIFF announced the screening times for Daydream Nation today. The premier is on Friday the 10th at 6pm at the Ryerson. 2nd screening is Saturday the 11th at 12pm at the AMC 3.

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:33:59 +0000

Tuesday August 24, 2010
TIFF announced the screening times for Daydream Nation today.
The premier is on Friday the 10th at 6pm at the Ryerson. 2nd screening is Saturday the 11th at 12pm at the AMC 3. Check it

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Screen Siren’s latest feature, Daydream Nation, to open Canada First! at TIFF 2010

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:05:37 +0000

Daydream Nation – World Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival

Daydream Nation by Mike Goldbach, BC
World Premiere
In this striking and slyly funny debut by filmmaker Mike Goldbach, a young woman (Kat Dennings) is uprooted to a small town where her classmates seem permanently stoned, an industrial fire burns ceaselessly in the background and a killer preys on the unsuspecting populace. The film also stars Andie MacDowell, Josh Lucas, Reece Thompson and Rachel Blanchard.

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Producer/President, Trish Dolman is selected to attend the TIFF Producer’s Lab

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:52:40 +0000

EFP, OMDC and TIFF set up platform for co-productions between Europe and Canada. With the aim of exchanging creative energy, experience and talents and promoting the co-production of international film projects, 12 European and 12 Canadian producers will be meeting for the new initiative entitled PRODUCERS LAB TORONTO. Created by European Film Promotion (EFP) in collaboration with the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the programme will be launched this year between September 10 -12, during the Toronto International Film Festival. Regarded as the key gateway to the North American market, TIFF has always been important for European films. The MEDIA International programme of the European Union is supporting the initiative financially.

The programme is designed for independent producers who must have a track record of successful project development and production. Besides demonstrating a strong motivation in co-producing with Canada or Europe, they all have to be experienced in international co-productions and should have one project ready to pitch. The EFP network has selected the European participants from the group of EFP’s PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE between 2006 – 2009. The participants from Canada have been chosen by OMDC and TIFF.

Year of the Carnivore Theatrical Release June 18, 2010

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:18:06 +0000

YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE
A Movie by Sook-Yin Lee

JUNE 18, 2010

Toronto = Cumberland 4 Theatre (159 Cumberland Ave.)
Vancouver = Cinemark Tinseltown Vancouver (88 West Pender; 3rd Floor)
Montreal = AMC Forum 22 (2313 Rue Ste Catherine East)
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The First Movie is nominated for a Banff Rockie award at the 2010 Banff TV Festival

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:42:06 +0000

The First Movie

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:09:03 +0000

What’s it like to be a child in war – not when the conflict is raging, but when the war tide is out, as it were, when kids are telling stories or playing games? The First Movie is about the “not-war”.

It came about because director Mark and producer Gill separately went to Kurdistan. They loved the place and wanted to make a film about it. Mark thought it would be best to focus on kids, because their minds are uninhibited and developing fast. A good way to try to see inside those little minds, he thought, would be to give the kids cameras and let them film what they liked.

Mark and Gill travelled around Kurdish Iraq in 2008, and chose the village of Goptapa as their location, because of its beauty and hopes for the future, but also because it has a tragic past.

Influenced a little by 1001 Nights, The First Movie is a “magic realist” documentary, one of the first of its kind. It certainly doesn’t skirt the suffering of Goptapa but, rather, it shows how such suffering co-habits with other things, such as wonder and imaginative development.

One little boy in the village said he’d like to fly slowly over Goptapa. In The First Movie, that might just be possible.

Daydream Nation

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:40:39 +0000

Daydream Nation is a provocative yet humorous romance about a rural community shaken by the arrival of an acerbic teenage girl.

Seventeen year-old Caroline Wexler (Kat Dennings) has just moved to a tiny, nowhere town where an industrial fire burns ceaselessly and a serial killer is claiming young victims. When Caroline realizes she has nothing in common with the permanently stoned kids that populate her new school, she pursues the one person she connects with — her handsome young teacher, Mr. Anderson (Josh Lucas).

A bizarre love triangle ensues between Caroline, Mr. Anderson, and a stoner classmate (Reece Thompson). A mash up of genres and tones, Daydream Nation is a coming of age story for the 21st century.

For more information visit: www.movieset.com

Cast:

Kat Dennings

Reece Thompson

Josh Lucas

Andie MacDowell

Rachel Blanchard