Canadian Actors, Directors and Movies

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(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.

	(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.
	(May 16, 2013 - Toronto, Ontario) The Toronto branch of the national union, ACTRA has announced its support for the introduction of the Private Member’s Bill - Protecting Child Performers Act, 2013 yesterday in Ontario’s Legislative Assembly. The bill as put forward by NDP MPP Paul Miller from Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, across Lake Ontario from Toronto."Children are an absolutely crucial component of our work," said ACTRA Toronto President David Sparrow. "ACTRA has worked hard to provide strong measures in our contracts that ensure child performers are protected."
	(May 15, 2013 - Toronto, Ontario) Organizers of the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival have announced their selection of the opening night gala film. In The Name Of was the winner of the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival. Directed by Malgoska Szumowska, the film is a captivating and emotionally powerful story of a charismatic Catholic priest struggling to reconcile his deep-rooted faith with the desires he has long fought to repress. Director Malgoska Szumowska has crafted a visually powerful film about confused emotions, repression and loneliness – and the possibility of perhaps finding oneself after all.
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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.