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VIFF releases public tickets to closing gala film Holy Motors
The Vancouver International Film Festival has released extra tickets for sale to the public for its closing gala screening of French director Leos Carax’s Cannes festival hit Holy Motors, a...
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Whistler film festival gets some blood on the midnight snow
With apologies to Rocky Horror, the year’s Whistler Film festival has its own late-night double feature. Vancouver-based twin sisters and writing-directing partners Jen and Sylvia Soska are opening the...
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Short film Stalled breaks out of the bathroom
Actor-writer Meghan Gardiner got the idea for her short film Stalled in the bathroom. In a lot of bathrooms, actually Gardiner spent the past 10 years intermittently touring Canada with a one-woman...
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B.C. creatives making waves at Tribeca, DC and direct to video
The ripples of creativity radiating outward from Vancouver sometimes take a while to bounce back, sometimes they’re quicker. Melissa James Gibson was a 17-year-old acting hopeful from North Vancouver...
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Director Sean Garrity rises to the Pressure
Winnipeg-based director Sean Garrity gets no sympathy for the scheduling problems he had last fall. Garrity, heading to Vancouver this weekend for a Friday night screening of his new thriller Blood...
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TIFF 2013 for First-Timers
As summer winds down here on the west coast, film revelers will be flocking east for the 38th Annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). If you’ve been following my blog here at The Province,...
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Vancity Buzz’s City Happenings – September 26
Film festival to light up the screens this weekend Over 16 days, the 32nd Vancouver International Film Festival will take place from September 2 VANCOUVER, BC:JULY 31, 2013 — Jay Z and Justin...
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Will Forte finds dramatic chops in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska
The Vancouver International Film Festival’s Canadian première screening of Nebraska marked former Saturday Night Live star Will Forte’s big-screen debut as a dramatic actor, so you can understand if he...
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VIDEO: Glen hangs with the actors at a VIFF party
Yep, that’s my Thursday night. Hung out with movie and TV actors at the Brightlight Pictures opening party for the Vancouver International Film Festival. Those people have stores give them fancy...
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So Vince Gilligan and Robert Lantos walk into a bar. . .
If you want to make some showbiz connections, you could do worse than to buy a drink at the Gerard lounge in Vancouver’s Sutton Place Hotel. I was reminded of that Saturday afternoon, when I went there...
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B.C. indie comedy Lawrence and Holloman gets Edmonton festival prizes
An Edmonton International Film Festival jury has awarded three prizes to the B.C.-made comedy Lawrence and Holloman. The movie (also screening at the Vancouver festival) won Edmonton’s Canadian feature...
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VIFF films say good-bye to friends Cory Monteith and Babz Chula
Two films inspired by the late actor Babz Chula are screening at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, while the festival’s Canadian Images opening screening last weekend featured the...
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VIDEO: Actor Ben Cotton talks VIFF, westerns and getting cut in half
We’re doing video interviews with some of the Vancouver actors featured in films screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Here, Ben Cotton (The Killing, Hellcats) talks about his two...
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Vancouver Short Film Festival a glimpse of filmmaking’s future
If you wanted to scout Vancouver’s future indie feature directors, a good place to start would be the fourth annual Vancouver Short Film Festival. The short-drama format gives directors a chance to...
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Lawrence & Holloman screens Tuesday at Marche du Filme in Cannes
The 9 Leo Award nominations for Lawrence & Holloman makes the film adaptation of the viciously funny Morris Panych play one of the event’s top flicks. The story of a near-suicidal sad sack shoe...
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VIFF Red Carpet Premiere: Ana Valine is ready for her close up
“It is a true gift to wear these dresses and jewelry for festivals. As a filmmaker, there are a lot of parties and events to plan for and choosing what to wear can be just another thing to add to the...
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TIFF 2015: Highlights, Hits & Misses
Another year has wrapped for one of Canada’s favourite festivals and another long list of films and filmmakers to watch has emerged. It’s a bittersweet end to another manic run of screenings, red...
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