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Rhombus Media’s Kevin Krikst and Fraser Ash have jointly won the Canadian Media Producers Assn.’s 2019 Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award, it was announced this afternoon at the Indiescreen Awards, the opening event of the Toronto film festival’s industry conference at Glenn Gould Studios.

The Toronto-based pair’s latest feature is Albert Shin’s “Clifton Hill,” a Niagara Falls-set psychological thriller starring Tuppence Middleton (“Sense8”), Hannah Gross (“Mindhunter”), David Cronenberg and Eric Johnson (“Vikings”). The film has its world premiere tonight. WTFIlms’ Gregory Chambet is handling international sales. Elevation is distributing in Canada.

The award, which comes with a C$5,000 cash prize, recognizes the talents of emerging feature producers. Krikst and Ash’s previous Toronto film, Stephen Dunn’s “Closet Monster,” won the festival’s Best Canadian Film prize in 2015.

Felize Frappier of Max Films Media received the Cmpa’s 2019 Established Producer Award in recognition of her remarkable contribution to Canadian cinema,...

Both recipients’ latest features premiere at Tiff.

The Canadian Media Producers Association announced the winners of its annual Cmpa Indiescreen Awards on Thursday (5) at an afternoon ceremony to mark the opening of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).

Félize Frappier (Max Films Media) received the Cmpa’s 2019 Established Producer Award in recognition of her contribution to Canadian cinema, which includes Marécages (2011), L’autre Maison (2013), Corbo (2014) and Ville-Marie (2015). The Montreal-based producer’s latest film, Kuessipan, receives its world premiere in Discovery on September 8.

Rhombus Media’s Kevin Krikst and Fraser Ash were named joint winners of the Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award,...

Monica Bellucci, Gavin Hood and Deepa Mehta are among tribute recipients in a new series of on-stage talks at next month’s 33rd edition of the Miami International Film Festival.

Running from March 4–13, 2016, the festival produced by Miami Dade College will screen 129 films and closes with the Us premiere of Andrew Currie’s comedy The Steps starring James Brolin.

Forty-six films are directed or co-directed by women and the roster includes 12 world, one international, 16 North American and 13 Us premieres.

As previously announced Alex de la Iglesia’s My Big Night is the opening night selection.

The inaugural Marquee Series category, dedicated to on-stage conversations with major film personalities sharing a major new work, includes Bellucci in conversation with her Ville-Marie director Guy Edoin on March 8.

The programme includes: Eye In The Sky director Gavin Hood on March 5; Goya Award-winning Spanish star of The Olive Tree Iciar Bollaín in conversation on March 6; and Beeba Boys director Deepa Mehta on March...

Ville-Marie

Written by Guy Édoin, Jean-Simon DesRochers

Directed by Guy Édoin

Canada, 2015

There’s a secret unwritten law in the Canadian film industry: Every decade, one Canadian director must make a movie that centers around car crashes. In 1996, David Cronenberg did Crash. In 2004, Paul Haggis did a very different Crash. Premiering at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival is Guy Édoin’s film Ville-Marie or Crash en Français (in French).

Ville-Marie, is a 2015 French Canadian film about of two families united by tragedy. The head of the first family is Sophie (Monica Bellucci), a renowned actress returning from Europe to film a movie with her partner Robert (Frédéric Gilles) and to visit her son Thomas (Aliocha Schneider). The second family is composed of a ragtag collection of nurses, paramedics, and staff at the local hospital. Pascale Bussières plays Marie – the patriarch of that peculiar band of brothers.

There are several things to like about the movie.

A selection of films from the 2015 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival have been unveiled, with films by Terrence Davies, Pablo Larraín, Deepa Mehta, Charlie Kaufman, and many more!GalasBeeba Boys (Deepa Mehta, Canada)Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée, USA)The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australia)Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood, United Kingdom)Forsaken (Jon Cassar, Canada)Freeheld (Peter Sollett, USA)Hyena Road (Paul Gross, Canada)Legend (Brian Helgeland, United Kingdom)Lolo (Julie Delpy, France)The Man Who Knew Infinity (Matthew Brown, United Kingdom)The Martian (Ridley Scott, USA)The Program (Stephen Frears, United Kingdom)Remember (Atom Egoyan, Canada)Septembers of Shiraz (Wayne Blair, USA)Stonewall (Roland Emmerich, USA)Special PresentationsAnomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, USA)Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga, USA/Ghana)Black Mass (Scott Cooper, USA)Born to be Blue (Robert Budreau, USA)Brooklyn (John Crowley, United Kingdom/Ireland/Canada)The Club (Pablo Larraín,...

Out of this morning’s reveal of Toronto International film Festival’s Canadian slate, one particular title that caught our eye was Guy Édoin‘s follow-up to Wetlands, one of our favorites of the festival a few years back. Titled Ville-Marie, the drama, led by Monica Bellucci, follows four people whose very different lives intersect one fateful night in downtown Montreal. When […]...

One of the more notable aspects of the Toronto International Film Festival, due to its location, has been its emphasis on Canadian cinema. The festival’s popularity and prominence among film fans around the world has led to Tiff becoming a key platform for Canadian films and Canadian filmmakers to showcase their talents, with the festival’s opening film often coming from a Canadian. The 2015 incarnation is no different in this regard, with Jean-Marc Vallée’s newest feature Demolition set to open the event, and filmmakers like Deepa Mehta, Atom Egoyan, Jon Cassar, and Paul Gross showcasing their newest films at the festival. The Festival organisers, however, have now revealed the other Canadian features that will be playing at the event, across a variety of programs. The list can be seen below.

Special Presentations

Born to be Blue, directed by Robert Budreau, making its World Premiere Into the Forest, directed by Patricia Rozema,...