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TITLE: AWAY FROM HER
SYNOPSIS:Married for 50 years, Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona’s (Julie Christie) life together is full of tenderness and humour, their serenity broken only by Fiona’s restrained references to the past, complicated further by her increasingly evident memory loss. Moving Fiona into a nursing home specializing in Alzheimer’s disease, Grant is not allowed to visit for the first month so she can “adjust”. When he sees her again, Fiona has forgotten him and turned her affection to Aubrey (Michael Murphy), another resident in the home. Heartbroken, Grant visits daily, bearing witness to the growing bond between her and Aubrey. When Aubrey’s wife, Marian (Olympia Dukakis), takes Aubrey home, Fiona becomes deeply depressed, and Grant embarks on the greatest act of self-sacrifice of his life.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Atom Egoyan, Doug Mankoff
PRODUCERS: Jennifer Weiss, Simone Urdl, Daniel Iron
DIRECTOR: Sarah Polley
KEY CAST: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Kristen Thomson, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Capri Films
WEB SITE: www.awayfromher.com
PRESS MATERIAL: Click here to view our Press Material page
AWARDS: 2 Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress (Julie Christie) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Sarah Polley); Screen Actors Guild Best Actress Award (Julie Christie); Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (Julie Christie); National Board of Review 2007 Best Actress (Julie Christie); New York Film Critics Circle 2007 Best Actress (Julie Christie) and Best First Film (Sarah Polley)
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TITLE: BALLETS RUSSES
SYNOPSIS: The revolutionary 20th-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes began as a group of Russian refugees, who never danced in Russia, and became not one but two rival dance troupes. 'Ballets Russes' begins with the company's Diaghilev-era in turn-of-the-century Paris -- when artists such as Nijinsky, Balanchine, Picasso, Miro, Matisse and Stravinsky united in an unparalleled collaboration. The film then explores the company's halcyon days of the 1930s and '40s, when the Ballets Russes toured America and finally the company's demise in 1950s and '60s.
DIRECTOR: Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine
KEY CAST: Alicia Markova, Maria Tallchief, Irina Baronova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Nathalie Krassovska, Yvonne Chouteau, Frederic Franklin, Mia Slavenska, Marc Platt, George Zoritch
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Gellar/Goldfine Productions
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TITLE: BLOOD
SYNOPSIS: Adapted from the critically-acclaimed play by tour-de-force author Tom Walmsley, BLOOD tells the story of reuniting siblings Noelle and Chris. Noelle, a sometimes prostitute aching for a fix after three months of parole-enforced abstinence, is desperate for cash. Noelle's money-making plan for turning a kinky threesome trick changes when her usual partners are busy and her long-lost brother Chris returns. What follows is a hypnotic dance of blurred moralities and incestuous explorations. For 90 real-time minutes the siblings push each other through often violent examinations of lusts and weaknesses spanning drugs, love, death and power. They trade control and fantasies in a debate between destroying and reconciling with the other. By experimenting with the many manifestations of love, the result is a blunt, passionate, and darkly comic look at two people struggling for salvation.
DIRECTOR: Jerry Ciccoritti
KEY CAST: Emily Hampshire and Jacob Tierney
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Spank Films
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Genie Award nominee for Best Actress, Emily Hampshire and Best Adapted Screenplay, Jerry Ciccoritti.
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TITLE: BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE
SYNOPSIS: The most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. It is award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay's journey over 4 continents and 5 years to find out whether there had been a golden age of theatre and why it had never been documented. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words - and not a moment too soon - "Broadway" tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre.
DIRECTOR: Rick McKay
KEY CAST: Carol Channing, John Raitt , Chita Rivera, Robert Goulet, Angela Lansbury, Elaine Stritch and dozens and dozens of other major players.
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Dada Films
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TITLE: THE DARK HOURS
SYNOPSIS: Dr. Samantha Goodman, an attractive psychiatrist in her 30s, joins her husband and sister for a weekend at a winter cottage when an unexpected guest arrives. Harlan Pyne, a violent sexual offender, is convinced that Samantha conducted unethical experiments on him while she was his doctor. With the assistance of his troubled yet eager friend, Harlan forces Samantha and her family to participate in a series of nightmarish games - games tinged with psychological and physical torture that are designed to both deliver the truth and reap vengeance. On this night of terror, escape is not an option, truth guarantees nothing, and revenge will not - necessarily - be sweet.
DIRECTOR: Paul Fox
KEY CAST: Kate Greenhouse, Aidan Devine, Gordon Currie, Iris Graham, Dov Tiefenbach, Aidan Devine
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Calder Road Films
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TITLE: DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE
SYNOPSIS: A devastating and extremely topical award winning documentary. DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE is a shocking look at how globalization has caused a country to condemn the majority of its starving population to slavery, prostitution and drug addiction while every day over-fed Europeans dine off of its vast stocks of Nile Perch. Compulsory viewing for anyone enjoying the privileges of the Western lifestyle.
DIRECTOR: Hubert Sauper
KEY CAST: Documentary
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Celluloid Dreams
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TITLE: FETCHING CODY
SYNOPSIS: Set in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside, Art Frankel (Jay Baruchel), a hustler and general lay-about, is head over heels in love with the luminous Cody Wesson (Sarah Lind). When she falls into a coma from an apparent overdose, a homeless, grief-stricken Art is offered shelter by the one person who can also offer him hope: Harvey – and his mysterious chair which he claims is a time machine. Desperate to reach her, Art suspends disbelief and embarks on a quest through time and space deep into Cody’s past. After several humiliating attempts to discover where things went wrong, it slowly dawns on Art that the real problem in her life might just be him. What ensues are a series of increasingly reckless attempts to avoid the one thing he fears most – sacrificing his profound love for Cody in exchange for her life.
DIRECTOR: David Ray
KEY CAST: Jay Baruchel, Sarah Lind
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Fetching Productions Inc.
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TITLE: JAPANESE STORY
SYNOPSIS: Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious geologist, suddenly finds herself having to baby-sit Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima), a taciturn Japanese businessman. Hoping to strike up a business deal, she agrees to take him on a field trip around Western Australia's remote Pilbara desert. Against the background of the outback these two diametrically opposed strangers are to find themselves thrust together in a potentially life or death situation. As they journey further and further into the desert, they leave more and more of what they know about each other and themselves behind.
DIRECTOR: Sue Brooks
KEY CAST: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, John Howard
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Samuel Goldwyn/Roadside Attractions
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TITLE: KAROL
SYNOPSIS: Karol Wojtyla is a boy of 18 on the threshold of life as an actor, writer and poet who suddenly sees his world shattered with the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939. Karol follows him in the exodus from Cracow and the horrors he witnessed, to the underground theater he creates to resist the invader, to his decision to become a priest during the occupation, risking his life, much to the dismay of the woman he might have loved. When Communism engulfs Poland, Julian Kordek, a Pole in charge of Religious Affairs, does everything in his power to bring Karol down. Always the humanist and defender of the downtrodden, he will face the totalitarian authorities with a courage that will awaken Poland, shake the world, and eventually lead him to Rome and the papacy. In his own words "There is nothing more sacred or precious than a single life!"
PRODUCERS: Pietro Valsecchi
DIRECTOR: Giacomo Battiato
KEY CAST: Piotr Adamczyk, Raul Bova, Hristo Shopov Ennio Fantastichini, Malgorzata Bela, Matt Craven, Violante Placido, Olgierd, Lukaszewicz, Kenneth Welsh
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Tao due, RTI, Capri Films, CBC
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TITLE: LIVES OF THE SAINTS
SYNOPSIS: Directed by multi-award winner Jerry Ciccoritti, and starring Academy Award winner, Sophia Loren, Lives of the Saints, a 2 part 4 hour mini-series produced in conjunction with the CTV and MediaTrade, tells the story of Vittorio Innocente and his mother Christina, whose affair with a blue-eyed stranger shatters the innocence of Vittorio's childhood. As he pieces together the story of his mother's past, Vittorio discovers the truths of the villagers and the village, and gains a new understanding into human nature. The tiny Italian village of Valle del Sole harbours century-old superstitions, fears, maliciousness, hypocrisy and a pagan past. The closer Vittorio comes to the truth about his mother, the more his discoveries threaten to tear apart his own world.
DIRECTOR: Jerry Ciccoritti
KEY CAST: Sophia Loren, Sabrina Ferilli, Fabrizio Filippo, Jessica Pare, Nick Mancuso and Kris Kristofferson as Mathew Bok
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Capri Films, CTV Television and RTI S.p.A.
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TITLE: NOBODY KNOWS
SYNOPSIS: Four siblings live happily with their
mother in a small apartment in Toyko. The children all have different fathers. They have never
been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day,
the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, asking her 12-year old boy to look after the
others. And so begins the children's odyssey, a journey nobody knows.
DIRECTOR: Hirokazu Koreeda
KEY CAST: Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimaura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan, You (from the asian music group Fairchild).
RELEASE DATE: NOW AVAILABLE
SOURCE: Celluloid Dreams
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