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The Life of Chuck, an offbeat film by writer-director Mike Flanagan, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The sci-fi drama is based on the 2020 Stephen King novella and sees Tom Hiddleston as one of the actors playing the central character, accountant Charles “Chuck” Krantz. The audience-voted prize, considered an Oscar bellwether, was announced…
A record-breaking four Manitoba-produced features were given a place at the table at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, but only three are actually set in Winnipeg. Rumours, a satire from Winnipeggers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, is set in Germany and was filmed in Hungary. Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language is set in Winnipeg, but an…
Two Winnipeg-spawned filmmakers who have both offered up surreal visions of the Prairie city — albeit almost 20 years apart — talked to a Toronto International Film Festival crowd this week about the reception to their latest movies and what it’s like to try to present Winnipeg to the world in film. Guy Maddin and Matthew Rankin…
Ambulances circled the Regina International Airport Tuesday as smoke billowed from the property, but there was no real emergency. It was all a part a mock emergency, an exercise to help airport staff and first responders prepare for the real thing. “The more you practise, the more ready you’ll be if a circumstance occurs,” said James Bogusz, CEO and president…
When former CBC host Carol Off started writing a book calling on people to reclaim the word “freedom” from the far right, she thought she would be dismissed as naive. Then Kamala Harris began her run to become U.S. president. “The first thing out of her [Harris’s] mouth, practically, was freedom,” Off told As It Happens…
Joel Goldes is the dialect coach for productions of Come From Away. A native of California, he’s taught actors all over the world how to speak with a proper Newfoundland accent. (Submitted by Joel Goldes) Come From Away has shared the story of Gander’s involvement in the events of Sept. 11 with audiences around the…
