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Today’s film is the 2013 short Foreclosure. The film stars Christian Bower, Dylan Harvey, and Alissa Hansen, and is written, directed, and edited by Wayne Robinson. Robinson has been making short films since 2010 on a variety of topics, with this short marking his fifth directed film and his fourth written one. Foreclosure makes its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Short Cuts Canada Programme.

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This afternoon, with poutine and local wine to mark the occasion, the Toronto International Film Festival announced their Canadian film selections. Programmers Steve Gravestock and Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo proudly pronounced that this year both new and seasoned filmmakers had the “curiosity and courage to show troubling issues occurring in our country in new and exciting ways.” Past festival favorite (and one of my personal own as well) Xavier Dolan, the always controversial Bruce Labruce and Jennifer Baichwal’s films garnered applause from the crowd at the majestic Royal York ballroom. Titles sure to draw headlines and attention in the Canadian slate are Denis Villeneuve’s locally filmed ‘Enemy‘ which has Jake Gyllenhall playing a man with two identities, torn between a mistress and a wife. Villeneuve’s other recent feature ‘Prisoners‘ was previously announced as a festival title. It’s worth mentioning that two feature films being presented at...