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9th Annual ReelWorld Film Festival
April 15-19,2009
Toronto: The ReelWorld Film Festival held their press conference on wed march 18, 2009 at The Cineplex Odeon Carlton Theatre.
Tonya Lee Williams, Founder expressed enthusiasm & gratitude in her presentation to the large crowd of journalists, media & corporate partners & invited guests.
Some of the Canadian films that will be showcased during the festival include: The Tenant, A Dream for Kabul & Sweet Blood.
Opening night will feature: "Gospel Hill" at the Scotia Bank Theatre.
Closing night will feature: "Aloo Chaat" - with a couple of Bollywood Stars at Scotia Bank Theatre.
A detailed schedule of all the events during the festival can be found at: http://www.reelworld.ca
After four successful years, Canada's most defining multicultural comedy showcase returns to Toronto for its 5th anniversary show.
The Most RACES Show on Earth! will make a thunderous return to the Panasonic Theatre for its BEST show to date. This year's show features a truly diverse all-star lineup of 10 edgy international comedians of various backgrounds including black comics: Clayton English, Dana Alexander and Cory "Zooman" Miller
The barriers between cultures cannot be easily dissolved; sometimes it's actually the shock value of a lot of the jokes that inspires people to start thinking. Through FUNNY and EDGY comedy, The Most RACES Show on Earth! celebrates diversity and helps fight racism through laughter.
The Panasonic Theatre is located on 651 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON.
TWO shows will take place, Sunday March 29, 2009. 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Click For More Info Theatre Smith-Gilmour Presents:Katherine Mansfield
News Source: Erika Rueter
Theatre Smith-Gilmour is pleased to announce that last years highly acclaimed work, Katherine Mansfield will be returning to the Factory Theatre on Saturday, March 14, 2009. Created by Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s Co-Artistic Directors Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour, along with Company members Claire Calnan and Adam Paolozza, Katherine Mansfield runs until Sunday April 5, 2009 in the Studio.
In Katherine Mansfield, Theatre Smith-Gilmour has taken four of the author’s short stories and adapted them into an exquisite and beautifully moving piece, full of passion, love, sexual awakening, innocence, longing, death and loss. With their inimitable, visually-arresting style, Smith and Gilmour have captured Katherine Mansfield’s unsentimental dance of life and death that Paula Citron, Classical 96.3fm called “…brilliant, touching… effective theatre” and Robert Crew, Toronto Star called “…fluid, polished, and delightfully imaginative…”
Created by: Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour
Company Includes: Claire Calnan and Adam Paolozza Dates: March 14- April 5, 2009
Preview: March 13, 2009
Times: Tuesday - Saturday 8pm, 2:30pm Sunday Matinees
Ticket Prices: Tuesday –Thursday $20; Friday $25; Saturday $28; Matinees $10; $5 Student/Senior discount on all tickets; Preview $12
Venue: Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St.
Box Office Number: 416-504-9971
Web Page Address: www.factorytheatre.ca
Click For More Info Da Kink In My Hair Returns to Global Television - February 12/2009 9:30 EST
News Source: Rachael-Lea Rickards
da Kink in my Hair, season two, is produced in association with Global Television. The Gemini award-winning series, created by trey anthony & Ngozi Paul and based on trey anthony's award-winning play of the same name, is back to shake things up. Love, life and just about everything under the sun is discussed at Letty's, a bustling hair salon in Toronto's Caribbean community, where both hilarious chatter and serious conversation can be overheard by clients and hairstylists alike. Novelette Campbell (Ordena Stephens-Thompson), Letty's smart and vivacious owner, still knows just how to make her clients open up while letting their hair down.
Season two promises to be even kinkier. Novelette's personal life picks up where it left off in season one ? complicated. She is romantically involved with Richard (Conrad Coates), but his family gets in the way. As Novelette tries to untangle the webs in her personal life, she still has a shop to run and a family to take care of. Her sister Joy (trey anthony) makes her return to Letty's Salon after a stint at a competitor's salon and tries to find her ?own? place within the shop. Starr (Ngozi Paul), a budding hairstylist, continues her learning curve as she tries to navigate her way within the West Indian community. The shop also has a new man in town, Malik (Eli Goree), the young and rugged receptionist. Letty's son Dre (Daniel J. Gordon) is a year older, has new friends, new loves and more growing pains. Letty's Salon is still the place to go to laugh, to shout, to cry and to get a really good deep conditioning.
This season stars Ordena Stephens-Thompson, trey anthony, Ngozi Paul, and newcomers Daniel J. Gordon and Eli Goree. The ensemble cast also includes featured appearances from notable talent Vivica A. Fox, Trish Stratus, Jessica Holmes, Shaun Majumder, Divine Brown, and Kreesha Turner.
Click For More Info Singkil - Nabs a lucky seven Dora nominations!
Just six months ago, audience members sang the praises of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company’s production of Catherine Hernandez’s Singkil, which performed to sold out houses at the Factory Studio Theatre. Now, the theatre community has spoken by nominating the show for a whopping seven categories in the Independent division. And fu-GEN can’t be more grateful for the recognition.
Outstanding New Play (Catherine Hernandez)
Outstanding Production (fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company)
There was nothing but pride and joy amongst all of fu-GEN’s creative team at today’s Dora Award press conference –because Singkil garnered the most nominations in the Independent division, not to mention the five-year-old company’s production was delighted to be recognized alongside the other esteemed nominees.
“These nominations clearly signify the growth, strength and maturity of Asian-Canadian artists,” says Singkil director Nina Lee Aquino. “I hope that this serves as an inspiration for the community to continue to do outstanding work.”
The winners will be announced on June 25th 2007.
Click For More Info I AM NOT A DINNER MINT
Trey Anthony Productions in collaboration with Redfoot Productions present
“I AM NOT A DINNER MINT…the crap women swallow to stay in a relationship”
July 21-30th, 2006 at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre
trey anthony writer of the hit play ‘da Kink in my hair, that wowed Toronto audiences and packed houses, is at it again, this time she is director and co-writer with Redfoot Production’s Rachael-Lea Rickards, on a new play, “I am not a Dinner Mint…the crap women swallow to stay in a relationship!”
The playwrights define a ‘dinner mint’ as the small refreshing “after thought” one enjoys after a really good meal, the little candies wrapped in layers of tissue at the bottom of granny’s purse.
The writers declare many women become dinner mints in their relationships. This analogy provides the perfect backdrop for a diverse cast of 5 women as they take an intimate, honest and sometimes hilarious look at the various relationships in their lives. From best friend make-ups, to searching for Mr. Right, to lesbian break ups, “I am not a Dinner Mint” guarantees to have its audiences laughing, crying, and yelling ‘enough is enough’ to bad relationships and ‘wish I held on’ to the good ones they let slip away.
It’s a journey of 5 Women, 5 hearts but ultimately one story…
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Could you write a great Canadian TV series?
Winnipeg – The National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI) wants to hear from talented Canadian writer and producer teams who have an idea for a great television series. Through the NSI Totally Television training program, NSI is offering qualifying teams the chance to fine-tune their idea and work towards landing a broadcast development deal.
Since the inception of the NSI Totally Television program in 2002, seven out of eight NSI Totally Television graduating teams have landed development deals with broadcasters and so far, two have been produced and broadcast nationally.
Apply for the program by May 15, 2006, 4:30 p.m., Central Time. Guidelines and an application form are available on the NSI website
Click For More Info DVD To Raise Funds For Grenada Hurricane Relief
GRENADA: THE MAROON SPIRIT, a new documentary film by Pumpkinhead
Production Company to donate portion of sales to Grenada Maroon Fund
What happens when a small Caribbean island is hit by a massive
hurricane? How does a country cope when 90% of their homes are
destroyed or damaged? What happens when your agricultural sector is
wrecked and your major export crop will take years to recover? What
are the hopes of the people for the future under such conditions?
These are some of the questions that GRENADA: THE MAROON SPIRIT hopes
to answer for people. This new production by the Pumpkinhead
Production Company was filmed on the island of Grenada in the Eastern
Caribbean in November of 2004, two months after Hurricane Ivan
devastated the island nation on September 7.
Click For More Info NSI Drama Prize 2006-2007 teams announced
Winnipeg - Today at NSI FilmExchange Canadian Film Festival, filmmakers from Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia were named as the next participants for NSI Drama Prize, presented by CBC Television – a professional training program coordinated by the National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI), which culminates in the production of a 10-minute short film.
From the 74 submissions, 16 were short listed for jury consideration. The following five teams were chosen for the 2006-2007 NSI Drama Prize training program.
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Singkil - Nabs a lucky seven Dora nominations!
