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Streets to screens

This Magazine Staff

Time to give you Film Clubbers a fix while we get the club back up and running (expect a return in November, by the way). If you’re in or around the Toronto area, the Toronto Public Space Committee’s Streets to Screens project has two Canadian premieres this Thursday for their Transit Tales night. The first […] More »

Not Playing: Canadian Films

Rachel Pulfer@Rachel_Pulfer

When the Canadian government introduced Canadian Content rules for radio, listeners from coast to coast to coast were made to endure the strains of Gowan, Glass Tiger and Platinum Blonde. Today, many Canuck acts are critically acclaimed and commercially viable—hitting the Billboard charts on a regular basis. Could screen quotas do the same thing for our homegrown filmmakers? More »