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John McPhail’s Scottish family comedyGrow, starring Golda Rosheuvel, Nick Frost and Alan Carr, and Campbell X’s BFI-backed Low Riderare among the 18 world premieres selected for this year’sEdinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), taking place from August 14-20 in Scotland.

Low Rider is one of 10 films competing for the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, which comes with a £50,000 prize determined by audience vote. The film is a UK-South Africa co-production that follows the adventures of a woman as she flies from London to Cape Town to search for her absent father and stars Emma McDonald and Thishiwe Ziqubu.

The world premiere of a new animated short film directed by Renée Zellweger, called They, six James Bond movies starring the late Sean Connery screened in a special strand, and “In Conversation” events with the likes of Andrew and Kevin Macdonald, Andrea Arnold, Ben Wheatley and Andy Starke, and Nia DaCosta will all be part of this year’s 78th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Among the movies in the program this year are the likes of Piotr Winiewicz’s About a Hero with Vicky Krieps, which was written by an AI system trained in Werner Herzog’s works, Eddie Marsan and Sam Claflin-starring “brooding, stylish thriller” All the Devils Are Here from Barnaby Roper, Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands, “a mysterious and Highsmith-esque existential thriller,” Urška Djukic’s debut feature and coming-of-age film Little Trouble Girls, and Elliot Tuttle’s Blue Film, starring Kieron Moore and Reed Birney.

Telefilm Canada announces has committed almost 13 million dollars to 21 feature-length films (English market). Almost 300 projects were submitted. At the top of the list is one of our most anticipated feature film debuts in Meryam Joobeur‘s Motherhood. We also find Murmur (2019) Nova Scotian filmmaker Heather Young moving into her sophomore feature drama titled There, There. Former Ioncinema.com contributing writer Jesse Noah Klein moves into a thriller (Best Boy) with his third feature. He previously directed We’re Still Here (2016) and Like a House on Fire (2020). And Winnipegger Matthew Rankin (2019’s The Twentieth Century) is hard at work with Une langue universelle.…...

Premiering at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival as part of their Industry Selects sidebar, Jesse Noah Klein’s Like a House on Fire follows Veep star Sarah Sutherland as Dara, a woman who returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. Now set for a release later this month, on March 30, from Game Theory Films, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer. and poster.

“While this film began to come together, I got married to someone I have known for much of my life and so ideas about family and parenthood were never far off. My siblings and my closest friends have become parents and it’s something my wife and I talk about for our future,...

Anxiety is high at the start of Jesse Noah Klein’s Like a House on Fire. We hear Dara (Sarah Sutherland) breathing heavily in the bathroom of a train car before finding her seat. From there it’s a taxi and the not so confident stroll to a house’s front door—the laughter of a child behind its barrier stopping her in her tracks and forcing her to run across the street and hide as her breathing grows heavier yet again. She lowers herself even further once Danny (Jared Abrahamson) and little Isabel (Margaux Vaillancourt) exit on their way to daycare. Only after some distance is created between them does Dara dare follow and wait for him to inevitably turn around and spark a confrontation two years in the making.

That’s how long it’s been since he’s seen her. It’s also how long it’s...

Industry registration closes on September 2.

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) organisers on Tuesday (September 1) announced a selection of 30 global acquisition titles outside the Official Selection.

TIFF Industry Selects titles hail from 29 countries and have been hand-picked by TIFF’s industry and festival programming teams and will screen to accredited users on the festival’s dedicated press and industry platform, TIFF Digital Cinema Pro. Industry registration closes on September 2.

2020 TIFF Industry Selects Titles:

A Good Man (France) Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

After Love (UK) Aleem Khan

And Tomorrow The Entire World (Germany/France) Julia Von Heinz

Apples (Greece) Christos Nikou

Baby Done (New...

"The compassion of Klein's filmmaking rings true." Outsider Pictures and Strand Releasing has debuted a new trailer for We're Still Together, an indie drama from Montreal that originally debuted at festivals back in 2016. It's just now getting a direct-to-vod release in the Us after years of playing at festivals but no official release. The film is about an unlikely friendship between two lonely individuals - a manic single dad, and an overweight kid who can't get along with anyone. Starring Jesse Camacho and Joey Klein, with Brielle Robillard and Eve Harlow. This won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Film at the New Hampshire Film Festival in 2016, and a few Actra Montreal Awards for the two lead performances. This looks heartbreakingly honest and moving, a film about how we all have issues yet friendship makes up for it. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Jesse Noah Klein's We're Still Together,...

From TorontoFilm.Net here is the Toronto Film Production Update for July 2019 including "Dare Me", "Titans", "Stardust" and a whole lot more:

A Grand Romantic GESTUREFeature – Theatrical

Paragraph Pictures

Prod.: David Gordian, Alan Latham

Dir.: Joan Carr-Wiggin

Jun 24 - Jul 19/19

AMÉLIE Et Compagnie! Saison 4

Episodic Series - TV

Carte Blanche Films Inc.

Prod.: Tracy Legault

Dir.: Dominque Cardona,

Jul 3 - Sep 20/19

Anne With An E Season 3

Episodic Series - TV

Northwood Anne Trois Inc.

Dir.: Various

Mar 11 – Aug 22/19

Awake

Feature Films - Streaming

eOne / Netflix

Prod.: Mark Gordon, Paul Schiff

Dir.: Mark Raso

Aug 6 – Sep 27/19

Backyard Beats

Episodic Series – TV

Bristow Global Media Inc.

Prod.: Daniel Bourre, Corinna Lehr

Dir.: tbd

Aug 19 - Sep 2/19

Beacon Street

Feature Films - Streaming

Twinkle Toes Movie Prod. Ltd.

Prod.: Susan Cartsonis, Brent Emery, Suzanne Farwell

Dir.: Elissa Down

Jul 25 - Sep 20/19

Carter...

Exclusive: Sarah Sutherland (Veep), Jared Abrahamson (American Animals), Dominique Provost-Chalkley (Wyonna Earp), Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale) and musician Hubert Lenoir have been set to star in Canadian feature drama Like A House On Fire from writer-director Jesse Noah Klein (We’re Still Together).

Production is under way in Toronto until July 15 on the story of a woman (Sutherland) who returns home to reconnect with the young daughter and estranged husband (Abrahamson) she left two years before. She soon finds that her daughter does not remember her and her husband is with a woman now seven-months pregnant (Provost-Chalkley).

Sarah Mannering and Fanny Drew of Colonelle Films (A Colony) are producing with William Woods (Mean Dreams) of Woods Entertainment. Finance comes from Crave, Telefilm, Sodec, Ontario Creates, and Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (Nohfc). Entract Films will distribute in Canada.

Montreal-based Colonelle Films is run by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Fanny Drew and Sarah Mannering.

From TorontoFilm.Net here is the Toronto Film Production Update for June 2019 including "Titans", "Grand Army", "The Boys" and a whole lot more:

Akilla's Escape

Feature

Canesugar Filmworks

Prod.: Jake Yanowski, Charles Officer

Dir.: Charles Officer

May 14 - Jun 6/19

AMÉLIE Et Compagnie! Saison 4

TV Series

Carte Blanche Films Inc.

Prod.: Tracy Legault

Dir.: Dominque Cardona,

Jul 3 - Sep 20/19

Anne With An E Season 3

TV Series

Northwood Anne Trois Inc.

Exec. Prod.: Moira Walley-Beckett, Miranda de Pencier, Tina Grewal

Dir.: Various

Mar 11 – Aug 22/19

Carter Season 2

TV Series

Sony / Amaze Films

Prod.: Victoria Hirst

Dir.: various

Apr 15 – Jul 17/19

Condor Season 2

TV Series

T5 Condor 2 Productions Inc.

Prod.: Andrea Raffaghello

Dir.: Andrew McCarthy

Apr 29 - Aug 28/19

Dare Me Season 1

TV Series

Gep / USA Network

Prod.: Dan Kaplow

Dir.: Various

Apr 22 - Aug 6/19

Dog Pack

TV Movie

Disney/ABC Television Group

Prod.

“in finding each other, they begin to learn over the course of the film, how it is they should be communicating…” – Jesse Noah Klein

Selected in Competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival and beginning its theatrical release tour in North America, the micro-budgeted We’re Still Together is a duel/dual journey into the night where two strangers meet, get a feeling for each other’s own realities, form a haphazard alliance and despite all the difference character traits somehow find commonality.

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“Do you know the difference between looking at someone and staring at them?” Claire (Eve Harlow) asks the question rhetorically, because it’s obvious to her — and to us — that the guy who’s been gawking at her from the candy aisle of her convenience store doesn’t have the slightest clue. Chris (Jesse Camacho), it’s easy to extrapolate, is so used to being stared at that he’s likely forgotten how people prefer to be seen.

The trembling heart of Jesse Klein’s smart, sensitive and instantly engaging second feature (2010’s “Shadowboxing” was his first), Chris only wishes that he could be as invisible as he feels. Living with his mom in a dreary Montreal suburb, the unambiguously overweight twenty-something is hard not to notice but easy to ignore, and so many of his interactions turn sour that he would rather retreat into himself than try opening up.

Seeing that we're at the half-way mark, I figured I'd round-up the troops and take a mid-season temperature -- assessing the noteworthy film titles that were theatrically released and the the first six months of the film festival season has brought us so far. Including myself, I asked our regular contributors Ryan Brown, Jesse Klein, Jordan M. Smith and Blake Williams to submit their mid-year "Best of" Lists so far, no surprises here: we have a broad range of films to watch out for, some overlapping selections, some unique picks, a consensus top pick in this year's Palme d'Or winner, but the real shocker is the omission of last year's Palme recipient (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) which received a small theatrical release.  > With the exception of one title (a film that actually played at Tiff last year, but his second viewing of the film confirmed the...