Canadian Actors, Directors and Movies

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(May 21, 2013 - Toronto, Ontario) "On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the New York Film Festival last year, a perceptive critic for Salon.com wrote “film culture, at least in the sense people once used that phrase, is dead or dying.” Unfortunately, as someone who has covered the cinematic waterfront for more than 40 years, I can only concur." So begins a brief review of the state of filmmaking in the early 21st century by Northernstars Associate Editor, Wyndham Wise. Click here to read more.

	For the legend of fans of Rookie Blue, the wait is over. Season four launches tonight on Global TV. The rookies are no longer rookies but that aspect of the series remains constant when west coast actress Priscilla Faia joins the cast to play the role of Chloe Price. Tonight's episode focuses on costars Missy Peregrym and Peter Mooney. After six months working undercover in a border town infiltrating a meth pipeline that leads straight to downtown Toronto, Nick – then Andy – go missing, causing the undercover operation to go sideways. Meanwhile, a random arrest at 15 Division puts Swarek (Ben Bass) and the other officers in the middle of a messy, violent drug squad investigation – the same investigation that’s being fueled by Andy and Nick’s undercover intelligence. Click here for more.
	(May 17, 2013 - Toronto, Ontario) Mongrel Media has announced the acquisition of all Canadian rights to Inside Llewyn Davis, Written and directed by Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen, and co-produced by Scott Rudin, and the Coen brothers, the film stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham and Justin Timberlake. The film, which had its world premiere this past weekend, specifically Sunday May 19th, screening in competition at Cannes, tracks a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Look for Mongrel to release the film in Canada on December 20 with a wider release planned for January 2014.
	(May 17, 2013 - Toronto, Ontario) In a first-ever collaboration between two pioneering interactive media organizations, National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentarian Katerina Cizek will be working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenDocLab to develop the next production in the NFB’s multi-award-winning Highrise documentary project, a multi-year, multimedia, collaborative documentary experiment that explores the human experience in global vertical suburbs. Cizek, who was born in Waterloo, Ontario and has spent a number of years at the National Film Board, will begin work with the OpenDocLab team this fall, as part of MIT’s Visiting Artists Program and is expected to wrap her work at MIT by the middle of next year.
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	Based on true events and laced with wry humour, Still Mine is a heartfelt love story about an 89-year-old New Brunswicker (James Cromwell) who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his wife (Geneviève Bujold) whose memory is starting to go.