Posts with the tag VIFF.

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TIFF 2013 Interview: Director & cast of The Dick Knost Show

Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil  •  September 15, 2013 @ 8:30am

In all the hubbub of the Toronto International Film Festival, sometimes it's easy to forget where you are. Amidst the wall of people crowding the streets, the buzz of foreign languages, and Hollywood celebrities emerging from black SUV's you might be at any major world film festival.

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VIFF Review: That Evening Sun

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 9, 2009 @ 4:10am

Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook) has seen better days. At the age of 80, having lost his wife and unable to care for himself, his son has placed him in the care of old-age home. Suffering within the system and determined to spend his final days elsewhere, he packs his bags and leaves destined for his old home, a family farm just outside the city limits.

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VIFF Review: 65_RedRoses

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 9, 2009 @ 3:56am

Imagine knowing that unless a miracle happens, you will be dead within two years. In 2007, that was the situation facing then 23-year-old Eva Markvoort. Born with Cystic Fibrosis, a disease that affects the lungs, causing them to fill with mucous and making it harder for those inflicted to breathe, Eva was in rough shape. Due to the condition itself, patients are isolated from others.

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VIFF: Brightlight Pictures Party

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 24, 2005 @ 12:00am

For most people, the 24th annual Vancouver International Film Festival started on Thursday, September 29th, with the opening day of screenings at the festival's 10 screens. In terms of the official launch of the parties that come with the festival, that occurred later that night at the Aquarium.

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VIFF Review: The Waldo Cumberbund Story

Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys  •  October 3, 2005 @ 11:59am

The Waldo Cumberbund Story is a unique and off-beat tale of childhood dreams about a young boy's desire to play the ukelele in a Hawaiian band.

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VIFF Review: Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys  •  September 13, 2005 @ 11:59am

"When you are 80 you have the privilege to forget whatever you want." - Murray Cornish

Memory is an actuality drama surrounding the lives of residents living at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto.

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Another Year, Another VIFF

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  September 7, 2005 @ 12:00am

Looking back at my introduction article to last year's Vancouver International Film Festival, I found it hard to believe that a year had passed since the 2003 edition. It had been an interesting year at the movies and one that I was hoping to out-do with the 2004 edition.

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VIFF: The Next 7 Days

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 31, 2004 @ 12:00am

By the 6 day marker of the film festival last year, things were getting way too crazy for me to handle. I wasn't sleeping at all, I was stressed out beyond belief, and I had gotten sick and felt as though the end was near.

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VIFF: Long films, short films... why can't they all just get along?

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 20, 2004 @ 12:00am

Short films are different than feature length movies in many ways. Throughout the year, the only real venue to see them is at various film festivals throughout the world or on specialty cable channels like Bravo or Showcase, who devote air time in between feature films and other television series to their airing.

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Interview: Wilby Wonderful director Daniel MacIvor

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 10, 2004 @ 12:00am

As the film festival entered its second week and I entered about day five or six of minimal sleeping, I'd seen far too many movies, and the location at which I live began to seem a distant memory, I took a step back.

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