Vancouver Film Fest Gets Confrontational
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VANCOUVER  - The Vancouver  International Film Festival, which is set to announce its  lineup Wednesday, is giving top billing this year to politics  and projects knocking President Bush.
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By Courtney Sherwood, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb.
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Protesters urged ticket-holders outside a Toronto cinema on Tuesday to boycott a documentary about a vicious animal cruelty case in which three friends filmed the skinning of a live cat as an alleged art project.
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Politics, genocide and animal cruelty  will share the spotlight with Hollywood glamour when the  Toronto International Film Festival kicks off its 29th edition  on Thursday.
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Eighteen months after the  outbreak of Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon,  filmmakers from both countries have brought movies conveying  frustration over the conflict to the Sundance Film Festival.
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Activists on both sides are in a heated confrontation in the city of Aurora over a new Planned Parenthood clinic
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"Rendition," which takes a critical look at the U.S. practice of detaining suspected terrorists in foreign jails, brought a dose of torture and political timeliness to the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday.
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Critics and acquisitions  executives might swarm to the Toronto International Film  Festival, now heading into its final days, but this is one fest  that always has been about the fans.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - The rush to build Vancouver's new convention center, which will be home to the media during the 2010 Winter Olympics, has caused the project's costs to skyrocket, a report said on Thursday.
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Aesthetics versus storytelling: as much as anything, that is the issue that defines the 45th New York Film Festival.
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TORONTO  - As the 31st Toronto   International Film Festival kicks off Thursday night, local   moviegoers are snapping up tickets for their annual celluloid   fest. Meanwhile, in the parallel festival that buyers and   sellers inhabit, studios are eyeing the menu just as hungrily,   looking for a few choice dishes.
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The past two years have seen a rise in skirmishes over who has the right to walk up and accept an Academy Award as a named producer.
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It&#039;s an epidemic. In the  New York City area, well over 50 film festivals have sprung up  over the last few decades, most of those in the last 10 years  alone.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - A tax-break battle  has broken out in Canada over millions of dollars in Hollywood  film deals, after Ontario boosted incentives for movie makers  in a bid to offset pressure from a soaring Canadian dollar.
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Some of the biggest names in Hollywood  had their egos bruised at this year's Toronto International  Film Festival.
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The Edinburgh International Film Festival canceled the screening of a movie about cockfighting after being told it might be illegal to show the film.
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The movies in this yearâs Toronto Film Festival were collectively like a wayback machine to the obsessionsâand the memorable filmmakingâof the â60s and â70s