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Canada's Top Ten, See The North, Window Horses, Ann-Marie Fleming

Alex Heeney / September 10, 2016

Poetry and identity in NFB animated feature Window Horses

In Window Horses, writer-director Ann Marie Fleming gets very specific about the alienation her poet Rosie has experienced as a Chinese-Iranian Canadian, …

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Canadian Short Cuts, SNIP

Alex Heeney / August 31, 2016

TIFF 2016: 10 must-see Canadian shorts

Oft-overlooked, TIFF Short Cuts is the place to look for new talent, and among the Canadian shorts, particularly resonant national stories. For every amateurish …

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Zoom

Mary Angela Rowe / August 11, 2016

Fantasy and identity collide in Zoom

You haven’t seen everything until you’ve seen a tiny lady stuffing dime bags into a RealDoll. This is Zoom, Canadian screenwriter Matt Hansen’s absurdist …

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April and the Extraordinary World

Mary Angela Rowe / April 28, 2016

Review: April and the Extraordinary World is a wonder

April and the Extraordinary World is an immersive science fiction narrative and a thoughtful reflection on our own world. …

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Penny Lane

Alex Heeney / February 1, 2016

Penny Lane on NUTS!: a gullible audience

Penny Lane (Our Nixon) discusses NUTS!, the importance of pacing in her creative nonfiction exploration of pseudoscience, why they used animated …

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Courtesy of TIFF.

Alex Heeney / October 11, 2015

Granny’s Dancing On The Table is a great debut

Easily the winner of the “most evocative title of the festival” award, Granny’s Dancing on the Table tells two stories: the present-day struggles of …

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