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Akshay Kumar is Kinng of Vancouver
By R. Paul Dhillon
Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar made a recent stop in Vancouver on a North American promotional tour for his pet project Singh Is Kinng, which he hopes will add to his growing clout as the current box-office king.
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Project8 Film Festival reaches out
By Jennifer Siddle
Now in its third year, the Project8 Film Festival—on Friday and Saturday (August 8 and 9) at the VIVO Media Arts Centre (1965 Main Street)—has expanded from its boot-camp roots and gone national. “We put a call out for submissions that are similar to our mandate of DIY—do it yourself,” said festival spokesperson Julie Saragosa over the phone. “So there will be a number of films from across Canada as well.”
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Mr. Hulot Comes Back from His Holiday
By Ken Eisner
Jacques Tati only made about nine movies in all, but the French writer-director’s crucial five features, collected in Playtime: The Films of Jacques Tati, are on display at the Pacific Cinémathèque until July 30, and from August 15 to 17.
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Local actors cast in 2012 epic
By Craig Takeuchi
The next film by director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow ), Farewell Atlantis, will start shooting in Vancouver this week.
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City productions nominated for Emmys
By Craig Takeuchi
Among the nominees for Emmy awards announced on July 17 are several Vancouver-made productions.
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Out on Screen gets grant
By Craig Takeuchi
Out on Screen was one of 16 cultural organizations that received funding from Arts Partners in Creative Development, as announced on July 17. The LGBT society will receive $65,000 to commission three short films and a community-based installation for its Queer History Project. Nine artists involved in the projects include director Gwen Haworth (She’s a Boy I Knew ) and director Aerlyn Weissman (Little Sister’s vs. Big Brother ).
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Diesel Film Racing Tour marries speed with greed
By Sean Minogue
On June 25, the 300-strong audience at the Ridge Theatre saw what 30 teams of filmmakers could do in 24 hours as part of the Vancouver edition of the 2008 Diesel Film Racing Tour.

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Crispin Hellion Glover set to grace the Cinémathèque
By Mark Harris
Crispin Glover isn’t just the “oddball” who pretended to karate kick David Letterman in the head on TV. He also costarred in Back to the Future, and, in Poland, starred in Jerzy Skolimowski’s Ferdydurke.
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Touched By Tibet talk series at Vancouver International Film Centre
By Craig Takeuchi
The Touched By Tibet series runs from July 18 to 30 at the Vancouver International Film Centre (1181 Seymour Street).

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A queer birthday party
By Craig Takeuchi
Out on Screen is celebrating the Vancouver Queer Film Festival’s 20th year with a fundraiser for the festival, Out in Schools, and the Queer History Project.

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Rouge rubbed out
By Craig Takeuchi
The sold-out sixth edition of the annual film- and TV-industry social event Rouge has been cancelled. As previously reported, event organizer Rory Richards had struggled to find an outdoor venue for her July 12 event due to the pre-Olympics venue shortage.
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Curry Western spices up B.C.'s birthday
By Craig Takeuchi
You may have heard of spaghetti Westerns, but what about their South Asian equivalent?

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Rouge forced to downsize
By Craig Takeuchi
The venue shortage caused by construction and renovations in preparation for the 2010 Olympics has hit the sixth annual Rouge film-and-television industry gala.
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Screen legend Dev Anand mobbed on visit to Vancouver
By R. Paul Dhillon
During a two-day visit to Vancouver as part of an Indian trade delegation, 84-year-old film icon Dev Anand was mobbed by fans at a June 19 meet-and-greet session at Surrey's Bollywood Banquet Hall.
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Trio runs the Rio
By Jessica Werb
Two years after businessman Mukesh "Mike" Goyal sank $2 million into restoring the Rio Theatre at Broadway and Commercial, reopening it as Rio on Broadway, the 80-year-old single-screen cinema has changed hands again. This time, it's being run by the colourful trio of Watermelon (known for selling pot cookies at Wreck Beach); "Mango" Joe Raguero, Dollhouse Studios' operations manager; and former Havana restaurant owner and burlesque dancer "Shameless" Corinne Lea.
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Benefit screening for Myanmar
By Jennifer Van Evra
It’s been seven weeks since cyclone Nargis ravaged the country of Myanmar, also known as Burma. According to government estimates, 78,000 people were killed and 56,000 went missing. More than a million still need help, most of them in remote areas of the Irrawaddy delta.
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Quebec Effort tops Seattle fest
By Ken Eisner
Films from Canada and Germany took top honours at the 34th edition of the Seattle International Film Festival, which wrapped June 15 with its usual awards brunch atop the landmark Space Needle.
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Festival promotes Taiwanese talent
By Alan Woo
The Taiwanese Film Festival returns for a second run from Friday to Sunday (June 20 to 22). This year’s edition has moved from last year’s Norm Theatre at UBC to the more deluxe setting at the Vancouver International Film Centre (1181 Seymour Street).
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CTV evicts Robson Arms
By Craig Takeuchi
Executive producers Brian Hamilton and Susin Nielsen told the Straight in a conference call that they were saddened by the recent cancellation of Robson Arms.
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Telefilm programs emphasize CanCon
By Craig Takeuchi
In an effort to provide better support to Canadian film festivals and professional development activities, Telefilm Canada has restructured its funding programs. The Canada Showcase Program has been replaced by two new programs: the Festivals Performance Program (with about $1.2 million in funding per year) for festivals with audiences larger than 100,000 people, and the Skills and Screens Program (with about $2.5 million in funding per year) for smaller festivals and professional-development activities.
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Spencer Maybee definite on dual careers
By Ken Eisner
Appearances on various TV series and films have led to a starring role for Toronto-born Spencer Maybee in the upcoming film The X-Files: I Want to Believe. While he’s been working behind the scenes on shows like The Next Great Chef and directing his own shorts, his coworkers were mostly unaware of how well his acting career was going.
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Hollywood gurus advise screenwriters to be concrete at Summit
By Craig Takeuchi
When participants in the Screenwriters Summit held on June 7 and 8 at the Vancity Theatre presented script synopses to Michael Hauge—one of four Hollywood screenwriting instructors speaking at the event—they often ran into problems.
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Out On Screen relaunches brand
By Craig Takeuchi
At Out on Screen’s annual general meeting on May 29, the society announced it ended up with a surplus and unveiled plans for a brand relaunch.
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Top docs at Doxa Awards
By Jessica Werb
The DOXA Awards were presented on Sunday night (June 1) at the documentary film festival’s closing-night gala at the Vancouver International Film Centre. The Feature Documentary Award went to Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains, by France-based director Gonzalo Arijon.
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Technology changes scriptwriting
By Craig Takeuchi
Syd Field, one of four Hollywood screenwriting instructors who will be appearing at the Screenwriters Summit at the Vancouver International Film Centre this weekend (June 7 and 8), says that the craft of screenwriting today reflects social changes caused by technological advances. “I really firmly believe that the impact of technology, whether it be CGI or wireless technology, is really influencing the way we think and the way we tell stories visually,” Field said on the line from L.A.
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