By Anne Brodie Trevor Mack’s award-winning study of Tyler, a young indigenous boy, in Portraits From a Fire is an extraordinary work, both by Mack and actor William Lulua who carries the film on his young shoulders. He’s in almost every frame and his easy self-assurance and acting range just jump straight out of the screen and into the heart…. View Post
Jessica Matten’s breakthrough series Tribal on APTN takes us to Calgary Alberta and a nearby First Nations reservation. Matten’s Sam is Chief of Tribal Police, partnering with Metro Police, amidst procedural, racist, and sexist tensions. A gruesome find, a case near the reservation, an indigenous mobster and faceoffs with the status quo make for an exciting and ever-evolving narrative. Matten… View Post
Snakehead is a powerful, fact-based gangland thriller, starring Shuya Chang as Sister Tse, an illegal immigrant who arrives in New York to find the daughter she abandoned years earlier. Dai Mah, played by Jade Wu, the deadly matriarch of a human trafficking cartel in Manhattan’s Chinatown takes her in and trains her to help run the enterprise; she’s a quick… View Post
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain By Anne Brodie Denis Villeneuve, the pride of Trois Rivieres, Quebec, helms the second filmed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal 1965 sci-fi masterpiece, the “unfilmable” Dune. An all-star cast takes us through the spice desert battlefields where House Atreides, House Harkonnen, Fremen and other clans tear each other apart to control the precious spice… View Post
Presented by RBC Monique Chan is a 25 year old creative based in Toronto. Always inspired by the natural world, she loves learning and discovering new innovations that allow humans to live symbiotically with our environment. Her main passion is plant-based cooking with a focus on the issue of food waste. After working in many kitchens as a line cook… View Post
London Ontario born Karen de Jong’s film art credits include Thor, Jingle All the Way, First Wives Club, The Relic, Down Periscope, Waiting to Exhale, Dusk till Dawn, Broken Arrow, Power Rangers, Sudden Death, Dolores Claiborne, Miracle on 34th Street, Captain Zoom, The Shining, The Mask, Shawshank Redemption, Wyatt Earp, Little Big League, The Three Musketeers, The Crow, Coneheads, Levis…. View Post