01 16 2012
Cinéfest Sudbury is pleased to announce its second screening of 2012. Le vendeur (The Salesman) will screen on February 23rd at SilverCity Sudbury at 7pm.
Director Sébastien Pilote's feature film is the story of Marcel Lévesque (Gilbert Sicotte), a quick-witted car salesman nearing retirement, who lives to sell. He has been salesman of the month for the last 16 years at the dealership where he has spent his career, in a declining industrial town in Lac Saint-Jean, where it's cold enough to scare away the tourists and buying a car sometimes seems completely absurd. There's just one ...
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12 9 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury Film Series is set to return in 2012 and will kick off the New Year with a screening of Oranges and Sunshine on January 26th at SilverCity Sudbury at 7pm.
From the Oscar® winning producers of The King's Speech and starring Emily Watson, David Wenham and Hugo Weaving, Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandels in recent times: the organized deportation of children in care from the United Kingdom to Australia.
A first feature by UK director Jim Loach (son of ...
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12 8 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury is thrilled to announce that the 24th edition of Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival will be held September 15th to 23rd, 2012.
A call for submissions will be announced in mid-January. Please visit us online in the New Year for details regarding submission dates and deadlines.
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09 28 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury is thrilled to announce the award winners of the 2011 edition of Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival.
CINEFEST SUDBURY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Cloudburst, Thom Fitzgerald, distributed by Emotion Pictures
THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA CAROLYN FOURIEZOS BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD
The Guantanamo Trap, Thomas Selim Wallner, Produced by Patrick Crowe, distributed by KinoSmith Inc.
After a painstaking deliberation, the following prizes were also awarded at the 23rd edition of Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival for the CTV Best in Shorts Competition.
FIRST PLACE, OPEN CATEGORY – Sponsored by CTV
The Standoff, John Alden Milne
FIRST ...
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09 13 2011
Cinefest Sudbury is pleased to announce the line-up of film guests attending the 23rd edition of the festival. Stay tuned as Cinefest Sudbury will announce more fantastic guests leading up to the festival.
Guests include:
180°
Siir Eloglu, Actor
Kaya Inan, Editor
22:43
Markus Hautz, Director
Martin Loos, Actor
Beat the World
Amos Adetuyi, Producer
Robert Adetuyi, Director
Billy Bishop Goes to War
Brad Fox, Producer
Eric Peterson, Actor
Cloudburst
Thom Fitzgerald, Director
Brenda Fricker, Actor
Doug Pettigrew, Producer
Donovan's Echo
Jim Cliffe, Director
Medolie Krieger, Writer
The Guantanamo Trap
Patrick Crowe, Producer
Thomas Selim Wallner
High Chicago ...
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09 13 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury is thrilled to announce the 2011 finalists for the CTV BEST
IN SHORTS COMPETITION. The screening of the finalists’ films will take
place on Saturday, September 24th at 12:30 p.m. at SilverCity Sudbury
Cinemas, located at 355 Barrydowne Road.
The 2011 Finalists are:
Dead Simple, Steve Schmidt, Chapleau
String Theory, Ryan Kozicki, Sudbury
Ad Noctvm, Josh Herd, Hanmer
The House, Jim Calarco, North Bay
Rock & Rough Roads, Rob Roy, Sudbury
Private Snuffy, Ben Sainsbury, Mactier
Sugaring, Ryan Mariotti, Whitefish
The Waiting Room, Sara Cornthwaite, North Bay
1883, Ben Bruhmuller, Sudbury
Introspection, Sam Desrosiers, Sudbury
Shackville, Kevin ...
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09 1 2011
Cinefest Sudbury is thrilled to announce it's final selections for the Gala and Special Presentations line-ups for the 2011 festival. Both programmes will feature a a number fine filmmakers, including Gus Van Sant, Woody Allen and Mike Clattenburg.
OPENING NIGHT GALA
I'm Yours [Leonard Farlinger, Canada, 2011]
Two lost souls take an illuminating road trip of self-discovery from
Manhattan to North Bay, Ontario. On his 30th birthday, good-looking
Wall Street money manager, Robert (Rossif Sutherland) decides he wants
something more out of life. Across a bar room floor, he spots a stunning
brunette named Daphne (Karine Vanasse). They ...
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08 24 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury is pleased to announce a selection of
Canadian feature films for the 23rd edition of the festival. The 2011
programme will include new works by Bruce McDonald, Guy Maddin and
Émile Gaudreault and spotlight several up and coming filmmakers directing
their first features.
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
A Beginner’s Guide to Endings [Jonathan Sobol, USA / Canada, 2010]
If Duke White (Harvey Keitel) hadn’t thrown himself into Niagara Falls,
someone would’ve pushed him. A full-time gambler and part-time dad,
Duke enrolled his three eldest sons in a risky pharmaceutical test for a little
extra dough. When the meds ...
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08 12 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival is thrilled to announce two more Gala Presentations for the 2011 festival. The Guard will be presented as the Monday Night Gala September 19th at 7:00PM. Starbuck will be featured as the Friday Night Gala Presentation September 23rd at 7:00PM.
The Guard [John Michael McDonagh, Ireland, 2011]
Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle ...
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08 12 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury is pleased to announce additional selections for the Special Presentations programme for the 23rd edition of the festival. These films represent some of the year’s best in Canadian and World Cinema.
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro (The Snows of Kilimanjaro) [Robert Guédiguian, France, 2011, French with English Subtitles]
Despite losing his job, Michel (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) lives happily with Marie-Claire (Ariane Ascaride). They have been in love for more than thirty years, have children and grandchildren that delight them as well as plenty of close friends. They are proud of their union and political struggles, and their conscience is ...
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07 27 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival is thrilled to announce that Sarah Polley’s film Take This Waltz will close the 23rd edition of Cinéfest Sudbury. Take This Waltz will screen September 25th at 7:00 p.m. at SilverCity Sudbury. The film screening will be attended by the director Sarah Polley. There will be a catered reception following the film at Bryson’s on the Park 5 Creighton Rd, Copper Cliff at 9:00 p.m.
From the moment Margot (Michelle Williams) meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction: she is ...
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07 27 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival is thrilled to announce that Restless will be presented as the Tuesday Night Gala Presentation at the 23rd edition of the Festival. Restless will screen Tuesday, September 20th at 7:00 p.m. at SilverCity Sudbury. There will be a catered reception following the film at the Quality Inn Hotel, at 390 Elgin St. at 9:00 p.m.
Directed by Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting), Restless recounts the romance between two teenagers, orphaned, funeral-crashing Enoch (Henry Hopper) and Annabel (Mia Wasikowska). They meet at a funeral and bond over their ...
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07 27 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury is excited to announce the first component of this year’s Cinema Summit activities - a short film showcase and panel entitled Animated + Aboriginal: Indigenous Storytelling Through Animation. The programme is presented in partnership with the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, and will consist of eight short films, followed by a panel discussion featuring Terril Calder, who specializes in stop-motion animation, and a representative from imagineNATIVE.
"Animation in all its forms is a vital medium for many Indigenous artists in Canada and around the world," says Jason Ryle, imagineNATIVE Executive Director. "This programme celebrates the diverse achievements of eight ...
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07 27 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury is excited to announce a double bill experience like no other featuring films by sibling, Sudbury born filmmakers Alfons and Robert Adetuyi. Both brothers feature films High Chicago (Alfons Adetuyi) and Beat the World (Robert Adetuyi) will be played back to back followed by an in depth, moderated panel discussion.
Beat the World [Robert Adetuyi, Canada, 2011]
Three groups of expert dancers are about to converge on Detroit to participate in the "Beat the World" dance competition, but there's far more than money at stake for each group. The Detroit-based American squad, "Fusion," is led by Yuson ...
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07 27 2011
Cinéfest Sudbury is pleased to announce the early selections for the Special Presentations programme for the 23rd edition of the festival. This year’s Special Presentations programme will include Canadian, world, documentary and Northern Connections feature-length films and will be representative of the best in contemporary filmmaking.
La Sacrée [Dominic Desjardins, Canada, 2011]
In order to marry a wealthy businesswoman, a professional conman must first solve his infertility problem. In order to do so, he must begrudgingly return to his home town in Ontario, where he finally decides to set up shop in order to launch a microbrewery. Will he ...
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