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TIFF 2021: Midnight Madness to open with top Cannes winner Titane TIFF 2021: Midnight Madness to open with top Cannes winner Titane Julia Duorneau's Palme d'Or winner will mark the genre stylist's return to the program that launched Raw five years ago By Norman Wilner Agathe Rousselle and friend in Titane. Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner Titane will open the Midnight Madness program at TIFF 2021, it was announced today. The stylized study of people drawn into fetishistic car culture sensationalized Cannes last month, and marks a hotly anticipated return to the festival – an...

Canada’s Plan To Relax Covid Travel Restrictions Good News For Toronto Film Festival Deadline 3 hrs ago © Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP Canada said Monday that it will begin easing restrictions on travel in and out of the country that have been in place since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic — news that will be welcome to organizers of this fall’s Toronto Film Festival, who have been planning an international event not knowing whether anybody outside the country would be able to attend. The Canadian government said today that fully vaccinated U.S. citizens will be a...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Stanley Nelson on Persistence, Mentorship, and Why BIPOC Filmmakers Are a 'Shot in the Arm' to the Documentary Industry Christopher Vourlias, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Having chronicled countless landmark moments in African-American history, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson (“The Black Panthers,” “The Murder of Emmett Till”) understands the stakes at a time when both the culture at large, as well as the documentary industry, are in the midst of a wholesale reckoning. “It’s clear that the voices of [BIPOC filmmakers] are ...

Hot Docs to screen 219 documentaries from 66 countries Miguel Ángel Blanca's Opening with Ann Shin's highly anticipated A.rtificial I.mmortality, screening in the Canadian Spectrum selection along with 14 other titles, the 28th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival will present a total of 219 films from 66 countries across 12 sections online, from 29 April to 9 May. The International Spectrum competitive section includes ten films, out of which half are European: Annabel Verbeke's Miguel Ángel Blanca's Mohamed El Aboudi's School of Hope (Finland/France/Morocco). These ...

Nanfu Wang, Stanley Nelson films added to Hot Docs’ special presentations roster The Hot Docs International Documentary Festival has added 13 more documentary features that will screen as part of this year’s Special Presentations program. The festival’s Special Presentations selection features world ... March 16, 2021 The Hot Docs International Documentary Festival has added 13 more documentary features that will screen as part of...