Danielle Deadwyler and Michael Greyeyes are empowered parents repairing generational wounds, ensuring survival and navigating the challenges of raising teenagers in the recently released film “40 Acres.”
Continue reading The Freemans stand their ground in R.T. Thorne’s ’40 Acres’Countdown to the Golden Globes — the only major awards honouring both film and television — begins with a Toronto party during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Continue reading Golden Globes countdown kicks off with Toronto party at TIFFI recently rewatched Limitless (2011), a glossy sci-fi thriller that feels eerily relevant in our current AI-obsessed moment. On the surface, it’s a story about a miracle drug that unlocks superhuman intelligence. But underneath, it’s a meditation on the moral cost of instant mastery.
Continue reading ‘Limitless’: A cautionary tale for the age of AIA Death in the Gunj, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2016 is the directorial debut for actress Konkona Sen Sharma. I had the fortune of receiving a ticket for the show as a birthday gift from a dear friend.
Continue reading Konkona Sen Sharma’s first film ‘A Death in the Gunj’ brings back memories of my childhoodFrom the musicians to the menu, the motif and the gift bags, get an inside view of film producer Ericka Nicole Malone’s evening activation at the Sundance Film Festival. | photos inside |
The Woman King strikes chords in the spirit of Black women because it celebrates the bond of loyalty, the energy of sisterhood and invokes a reawakening of the joy of authentically being seen and empowered.
Continue reading The Woman King’s elite cast of charactersI just watched Savage (2009), a short film written and directed by Lisa Jackson, inspired by the choreography of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, complete with zombies, a lullaby sung in Cree, and a lesson on the Canadian residential school system. In only a few minutes I felt emotions from comfort, fear, anger, to an intense sadness – a range that would usually take a good two hours to produce. The film was posted to Encore+ only three days ago as part of a new partnership which makes Indigenous media more accessible to Canadians and audiences around the world.
Continue reading Encore+ YouTube channel partners with imagineNATIVE to launch Indigenous films collection
