Take One back issues from March 2003:
From the editor.(My Big Fat Greek Wedding)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2003; ... There's a moment of theatrical magic that millions of people have succumbed to: the showbiz moment when Peter Pan asks us if we believe in fairies. Tinker Bell has been badly hurt, and like a dying firefly, her light is ebbing away. Desperate to save her, Peter grabs at a long shot. He ...
Seraphin Charles Biname talks about the enduring appeal of a classic tale from Quebec.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2003; ... I "Do you know what's so remarkable about this project?" Charles Biname asks rhetorically one winter morning. "This is the first time I've worked on something that has such incredible resonance. There are people who were directly involved, actors in previous interpretations, who are still ...
The increasing lightness of being Daniel MacIvor.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Banana bread. Green tea and banana bread. It's late December, not even Christmas, not even New Year's. Too early for any resolution to be in effect, and Daniel MacIvor is at one with the baking universe. "S-P-E-L-T," he offers. It's an ingredient in the banana bread. A grain ...
Grand mishaps: technology patron Daniel Langlois on the hits and misses of the digital wonder of The Baroness and the Pig.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2003; ... I'm a self-avowed twit when it comes to technology--among other things--but I had an inkling something was amiss when I noticed the light beam coming from the projection booth. It was late November in Montreal, and I'd just finished seeing The Baroness and the Pig, the Daniel ...
A passion for social justice: the activist films of Nettie Wild.(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2003; ... Vancouver, 1981: The game-show contestant is nervous. The host of the show has just asked her what she would do if she won an expensive new home. The clock is ticking. The studio audience is restless and the time-up buzzer is about to blare. "I'd live in the house!" guesses the contestant, ...
The King of cinema-verite: an interview with Allan King.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2003; ... "There are few Canadian filmmakers whose impact has been central to the medium, but Allan King is unquestionably one of them. His contribution to the documentary form, most notably that strand known as cinema-verite, is second to none. Warrendale (1967) and A Married Couple (1969) are two ...
Claude Jutra, Portrait sur Film.(Movie Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... 2002 82m prod NFB, CBC, Fox-Fire Films, Production Docu 2, exp Robert Sherrin, p Nicole Lamothe, Yves Bisaillon, Anne Frank, Andre Theberge, d/narr Paule Baillargeon, sc Jefferson Lewis, ph Michael Savoie, ed Dominique Sicotte, s Alain Letourneau, Marie-France Delagrave, ad Bruno La Haye, ...
The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia.(Movie Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... 2002 75m prod Mercury Films, p Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, d Jennifer Baichwal, ph Nicholas de Pencier, ed David Wharnsby, s Jane Tattersall; with Shelby Lee Adams, the Childer family, the Nappier family, the Riddle family, Hort Collins, Dwight Billings, A.D. Coleman, Vicki ...
Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi.(Movie Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... 2003 52m prod Human Scale Productions, p Doug Karr, Norman Phiri, Walter Forsyth, d Doug Karr, Sierra Bellows, ph Doug Karr, s Sierra Bellows. Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi is an intelligent and clear-eyed look at the plague that is devastating sub-Saharan Africa. For ...
ImagineNATIVE Media Arts Festival: (10/24-27/02). (Festival Wraps).
Mar 01, 2003; ... The third annual ImagineNATIVE Media Arts Festival screened over 50 works by Aboriginal filmmakers and videographers from around the world during its four-day run last October in downtown Toronto. Documentaries from New Zealand and Russia shared the spotlight with archival footage from the ...
International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam: (11/21-12/1/02). (Festival Wraps).
Mar 01, 2003; ... Canada was well represented last year at the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, both with films and the exuberant presence of Peter Wintonick, who ran a Master Class and chaired one of the evening discussions. Some notable risks were taken by a number of Canadian filmmakers ....
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival: (11/27-12/1/02). (Festival Wraps).
Mar 01, 2003; ... Rock music, Oedipal rebellion and cinema history were the highlights of the sixth Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. The autumnal festival gathers the cinematic best of the global Asian diaspora, shunning the chop-socky flicks of the Fantasia festival and ignoring the ...
Sundance Film Festival: (1/16-26/03). (Festival Wraps).
Mar 01, 2003; ... Robert Redford opened the 2003 Sundance Film Festival with a plea for freedom of expression, an embattled concept in the era of Bush II. But the real keynote speech came from Emmanuel Jordan, the catatonic ex-con hero of Ed Solomon's Levity, the festival's opening night film. "I don't want ...
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival: (1/31-2/8/03). (Festival Wraps).
Mar 01, 2003; ... Canada was a major presence at the 25th annual Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival--located in a picturesque medieval town north of Paris--with two special retrospective programs devoted solely to Canadian cinema. In the general screenings, 25 recent Canadian shorts were shown, several ...
Take One's: 2002 Survey of Canadian Cinema.
Mar 01, 2003; ... Every year, Take One tracks all the Canadian features and feature-length documentaries that play in the Greater Toronto Area--the largest market in the world for English-Canadian films--in an effort to develop a picture of those Canadian films that are popular with the theatre-going ...
Sheridan College's Advanced Television and Film program. (Industry).
Mar 01, 2003; ... The great glass house on the Sheridan College campus looks rather fragile; as if it would shatter were someone to throw a stone. But inside all of that glass is the Sheridan Centre for Animation and Emerging Technology. Vladimir Kabelik, the coordinator of the Advanced Television and Film ...