Presented by RBC Ivy Richardson (she/her) is of Nuxalk, Gusgimukw and European ancestry. She is the founder of Red Girl Rising, a wellness through movement initiative and Team 700, BC’s first competitive Indigenous youth boxing team. She also is the co-founder of Matriarch Resistance which is a new initiative created in a direct response to MMIWG2S, the program is rooted in sisterhood… View Post
A desperate Cree mother (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers ) has hidden her daughter Waseese (Brooklyn Letexier-Hart) in the bush for six years. Society’s at war and children are being rounded up and sent to the Academy, a residential school where they are brainwashed and shaped into military and government assets. When their home is discovered by a military drone, Niska and Waneese… View Post
Robert Vincent Montano, Michael Gandolfini, Gabriella Piazza and Alessandro Nivola in The Many Saints of Newark By Anne Brodie The Many Saints of Newark, the origins story of HBO’s long-running classic mob series The Sopranos is finally here. Alessandro Nivola is young up and comer Dickie Moltisanti – running the family business while his brother the Boss “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti… View Post
Tim Blake Nelson is Old Henry, a hardworking farmsteader in the remote Tennessee grasslands of the old West. His teenaged son Wyatt (Gavin Lewis) is in full-on rebellion and planning to leave when Henry comes home with an injured man and a satchel of money. Henry takes care of the stranger but a posse of apparent lawmen show up in… View Post
Australian actor Daniella Macdonald plays Millie in Falling for Figaro, a rising star in London’s fund management world who travels to northern Scotland to fulfill a lifelong dream. Millie has always wanted to sing opera; she’s determined to learn and compete in the annual UK Singer of Renown contest and by gum, watch her clear all the hurdles, including romantic…. View Post
By Anne Brodie One of my top #TIFF21 picks comes from the Lewis, Outer Hebrides of Scotland a wild, windswept, craggy place staring straight out into the Atlantic, the end of the world to some. Nobody Has to Know from writer, director and leading man Bouli Lanners is a moving study of love that comes too late. Phil (Lanners) is… View Post