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Maudie (Dir. Aisling Walsh) Nova Scotia primitive artists Maud Lewis’ was born “crooked” and in some ways it shaped her destiny. She was treated like an outcast in her small village and a slave by her aunt who kept her against her will, but didn’t want her. Maud was fiercely independent and had a …
Continue Reading about TIFF Takeways for the Future! | by Anne Brodie
This event is born from our inner desire to help other woman live purposefully in the comfort of their own skin. Many women, feel imprisoned by their reality, lacking the ability to find purpose and opportunity in their current circumstance. Our objective is to help women identify and lock into …
Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins – This urban tale of a boy growing up disadvantaged on so many levels, is counter intuitive and that’s why it works. The music is anything but urban, it is classical, new age and choral. The film’s lyricism imbues the inner city with the beauty of a rural landscape, …
Continue Reading about TIFF Has It All! Our Capsules Reviews – by Anne Brodie
It took three years of my life to get Underdog – part memoir, part insider’s view of politics from a right-wing point of view – to print. If you’d asked me in the fall of 2013 if I wanted to invest the kind of time that was needed to write the book while working full-time at an already …
An unexpected jewel arrives in the form of a dark family story with a twist. The 9th Life of Louis Drax isn’t for everyone but adventurous viewers will be amply rewarded. Louis is an accident prone boy whose over protective mother constantly worries and hovers preventing him from leading an …
