It's a big year for Mad Men's Jessica Paré. Not only is her hit show coming to a close, but she has also become a mom for the first time. On Friday, Jessica's boyfriend, John Kastner, announced the news with a sweet picture. "Please meet Blues Anthony Paré Kastner," he captioned the first photo of their baby on Instagram. The cute moment was captured as John's daughter, Summer Lee, held baby Blues in her arms. Jessica and John's bundle of joy made his arrival about five months since her exciting pregnancy news emerged in October. Read on to see the baby's adorable picture, and then get caught up on what's happening with Jessica's Mad Men character Megan Draper in the show's final season.
- 3/21/2015
- by Nick-Maslow
- Popsugar.com
Jessica Pare and her boyfriend, musician John Kastner, have a wonderful case of the baby Blues!
The dad introduced their new tiny tot in a photo he posted on Instagram on Friday.
"Please meet Blues Anthony Pare Kastner," John captioned the pic of his daughter, Summer Lee, 8, holding her little half-brother.
Photos: Celebrity Baby Boom Of 2015
This is the first child for the "Mad Men" actress, who announced her pregnancy in October.
Jessica and John began dating in 2012.
Photos: ‘Mad Men’ Season 7 — Stunning Pics!
She was previously married to actor ...
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The dad introduced their new tiny tot in a photo he posted on Instagram on Friday.
"Please meet Blues Anthony Pare Kastner," John captioned the pic of his daughter, Summer Lee, 8, holding her little half-brother.
Photos: Celebrity Baby Boom Of 2015
This is the first child for the "Mad Men" actress, who announced her pregnancy in October.
Jessica and John began dating in 2012.
Photos: ‘Mad Men’ Season 7 — Stunning Pics!
She was previously married to actor ...
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 3/21/2015
- by access.hollywood@nbcuni.com (Access Hollywood)
- Access Hollywood
Mrs. Draper is going to have a son! Mad Men star Jessica Pare, who is expecting her first child with boyfriend John Kastner, celebrated her soon-to-be baby boy with a baby shower at costume designer and good friend Janie Bryant’s home in L.A.’s Los Feliz nabe on Feb. 21, a source reveals exclusively to Us Weekly. The fete, which was hosted by Bryant and friends Jessie Cohen and Hugo Marcotte, was clad with blue hydrangeas and white spray roses. “The shower was beautiful! It was a very personal [...]...
- 2/27/2015
- Us Weekly
Mrs. Draper's rocking that bump! Jessica Pare stepped out on Monday, Nov. 10, for the first time since Us Weekly exclusively broke the news that she is expecting her first child with boyfriend John Kastner. The pregnant Mad Men actress, 33, stunned at the 21st Annual Scotiabank Giller Prize in Toronto in a draped dress boasting bold watermelon hues by Roksanda. When she turned to the side for photographs, the dress' slim fit showcased the Canadian actress' blossoming baby bump. Though Pare has mostly stayed mum about her romance [...]...
- 11/11/2014
- Us Weekly
Her hit show “Mad Men” is coming to a close just in time, as Jessica Paré is pregnant with her first child.
The “Hot Tub Time Machine” stunner (33) and her Canadian punk rock musician boyfriend John Kastner will be parents in 2015 after having begun a relationship last year.
In a previous interview, Jessica hinted at new things on the horizon now that she won’t be playing Megan Draper any longer.
"I do feel like the end of Mad Men is sort of a coming of age. There was before Mad Men, and there's after, and that's what we're talking about here tonight in terms of the milestone moments in a woman's life. We're moving and we're growing."...
The “Hot Tub Time Machine” stunner (33) and her Canadian punk rock musician boyfriend John Kastner will be parents in 2015 after having begun a relationship last year.
In a previous interview, Jessica hinted at new things on the horizon now that she won’t be playing Megan Draper any longer.
"I do feel like the end of Mad Men is sort of a coming of age. There was before Mad Men, and there's after, and that's what we're talking about here tonight in terms of the milestone moments in a woman's life. We're moving and we're growing."...
- 10/29/2014
- GossipCenter
Zou bisou bisou, baby! Jessica Paré is pregnant with her first child, the Mad Men star's rep confirms to E! News. The lucky daddy-to-be is her musician boyfriend John Kastner, a fellow French-Canadian. It's unclear (just how series creator Matthew Weiner would want it, of course) how Paré will factor into the final seven episodes of Mad Men's seventh and final season, premiering next year on AMC, since her Megan and Jon Hamm's Don Draper seemed to finally be headed for a permanent split after living on separate coasts. "It's really bittersweet. Mostly bitter," Paré told Elle in June at the launch of Baume & Mercier's Promesse watch collection in...
- 10/29/2014
- E! Online
Jessica Pare will soon be able to plant bisous (kisses) on a little one of her own – she's pregnant!
The "Mad Men" actress is expecting a child with boyfriend John Kastner, according to Us Weekly.
Jessica Pare, John Kastner (Getty Images)
The 33-year-old Canadian star and John, a musician (also Canadian), have been dating since 2012 and recently stepped out together at an August Audi event celebrating the Emmys.
Photos: 'Mad Men' Season 7
This will be the first child for Jessica, who plays Don Draper's wife Megan on AMC's hit drama.
She ...
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
The "Mad Men" actress is expecting a child with boyfriend John Kastner, according to Us Weekly.
Jessica Pare, John Kastner (Getty Images)
The 33-year-old Canadian star and John, a musician (also Canadian), have been dating since 2012 and recently stepped out together at an August Audi event celebrating the Emmys.
Photos: 'Mad Men' Season 7
This will be the first child for Jessica, who plays Don Draper's wife Megan on AMC's hit drama.
She ...
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 10/28/2014
- by access.hollywood@nbcuni.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
Mrs. Draper is pregnant! Mad Men star Jessica Pare is expecting her first child with boyfriend John Kastner, her rep confirms exclusively to Us Weekly. The Canada native, 33, has kept quiet about her Canadian musician beau, but the couple have stepped out on occasion for red carpet events. They most recently attended Audi's Celebration of Emmys Week in L.A. on Aug. 21. Pare has also showed off her own musical talents since moving from Montreal to L.A. a decade ago. Despite teasing to London's Evening Standard in [...]...
- 10/28/2014
- Us Weekly
Ireland's oldest cinema event, Cork Film Festival will run November 7-16, 2014. Last year James Mullighan was appointed Creative Director of the festival, which is not only one of the most important cultural events in the country but also the highest profile platform for the new talent discovery.
As part their latest efforts to create new distribution platforms to connect audience with content, James Mullighan and Head of Program and Editorial Don O’Mahoney attended this year's Cannes Film Festival, and announced that their Fest is launching its very first video on demand initiative. Their inaugural digital program is conformed of seven shorts and seven features being retailed on a pay what you want basis, alongside bonus content. The films can be digitally purchased viia the innovative platform Vodo, which careful curates themed bundles of content, and it's working with a film Fest for the first time. Vodo.net/cork.
The initiative has three tiers: Pay What you Want (four shorts and one feature, including Made in Cork prize winner Yvonne’ Keane’s Stolen, and Filmbase Ireland’s How to be Happy, starring Brian Gleeson); Beat the Average (three features and three shorts, including biopic of writer / chess master John Healy Barbaric Genius, and Cork Fest 2013 opening night short Mechanic, starring Syl Fox); and Beat the Premium (including Tony Palmer’s recently reissued 1974 Leonard Cohen doc Bird on a Wire, and John Kastner’s prize winner mental health sensational doc Not Criminally Responsible).
“We’ve been working with Jamie King and the team at Vodo since straight after the Fest last year”, said James Mullighan, Creative Director, Cork Film Festival.
“In this day of screeching web noise, I really admire the platform’s loving, carefully curated approach to films and more. They were the ideal choice to launch this experiment in distribution. I am hopeful it will be popular with the thousands and thousands of fans of the Cork Film Festival in Ireland, Europe and amongst the global Irish diaspora, who fondly wish they could attend the Fest, but cannot. I’m grateful to and proud of the independent directors and producers who lit up our Fest in November last year to trust Jamie and I with their babies”.
Once payment handling costs have been deducted, Vodo - who levy no extra charges other than their 25% sales fee - hand all the proceeds to Cork Film Festival. The Festival send 70% of that straight to the filmmakers, ringfencing 5% for its new €1,500 feature film Gradam Spiorad na Féile / Spirit of the Festival Award, which takes a bow during the Fest’s 59th Edition this year.
"Cork's Bundle shows a real engagement with online culture and experimentation in the transmedia sphere", commented Jamie King, CEO and Founder of Vodo, which has recently successfully promoted Not Safe for Work and Big Brother bundles.
“When you let customers set the price for themselves,’ says Vodo’s Jamie King, ‘they can turn out to be surprisingly generous. The average price paid for the Cork Bundle is currently $11.20. That's a win both for audiences and the filmmakers.”
"I had a wonderful time when I was honored to be invited to Cork last November as filmmaker in residence”, remembered Tony Palmer, celebrated British music film biographer and documentarian, whose Leonard Cohen film Bird on a Wire played at the Fest, as well as his new Benjamin Britten feature Nocturne, and his entire 7 hour, 46 minute dramatic reconstruction of the life of composer Richard Wagner, the last film Richard Burton even made.
“The Cork Film Festival is going out on a limb to bring its films to a wider audience. This should be celebrated, and I’m delighted to be involved.
The bundle went live on Wednesday 14 May, the opening day of Cannes International Film Festival, and runs until Tuesday 3 June.
As part their latest efforts to create new distribution platforms to connect audience with content, James Mullighan and Head of Program and Editorial Don O’Mahoney attended this year's Cannes Film Festival, and announced that their Fest is launching its very first video on demand initiative. Their inaugural digital program is conformed of seven shorts and seven features being retailed on a pay what you want basis, alongside bonus content. The films can be digitally purchased viia the innovative platform Vodo, which careful curates themed bundles of content, and it's working with a film Fest for the first time. Vodo.net/cork.
The initiative has three tiers: Pay What you Want (four shorts and one feature, including Made in Cork prize winner Yvonne’ Keane’s Stolen, and Filmbase Ireland’s How to be Happy, starring Brian Gleeson); Beat the Average (three features and three shorts, including biopic of writer / chess master John Healy Barbaric Genius, and Cork Fest 2013 opening night short Mechanic, starring Syl Fox); and Beat the Premium (including Tony Palmer’s recently reissued 1974 Leonard Cohen doc Bird on a Wire, and John Kastner’s prize winner mental health sensational doc Not Criminally Responsible).
“We’ve been working with Jamie King and the team at Vodo since straight after the Fest last year”, said James Mullighan, Creative Director, Cork Film Festival.
“In this day of screeching web noise, I really admire the platform’s loving, carefully curated approach to films and more. They were the ideal choice to launch this experiment in distribution. I am hopeful it will be popular with the thousands and thousands of fans of the Cork Film Festival in Ireland, Europe and amongst the global Irish diaspora, who fondly wish they could attend the Fest, but cannot. I’m grateful to and proud of the independent directors and producers who lit up our Fest in November last year to trust Jamie and I with their babies”.
Once payment handling costs have been deducted, Vodo - who levy no extra charges other than their 25% sales fee - hand all the proceeds to Cork Film Festival. The Festival send 70% of that straight to the filmmakers, ringfencing 5% for its new €1,500 feature film Gradam Spiorad na Féile / Spirit of the Festival Award, which takes a bow during the Fest’s 59th Edition this year.
"Cork's Bundle shows a real engagement with online culture and experimentation in the transmedia sphere", commented Jamie King, CEO and Founder of Vodo, which has recently successfully promoted Not Safe for Work and Big Brother bundles.
“When you let customers set the price for themselves,’ says Vodo’s Jamie King, ‘they can turn out to be surprisingly generous. The average price paid for the Cork Bundle is currently $11.20. That's a win both for audiences and the filmmakers.”
"I had a wonderful time when I was honored to be invited to Cork last November as filmmaker in residence”, remembered Tony Palmer, celebrated British music film biographer and documentarian, whose Leonard Cohen film Bird on a Wire played at the Fest, as well as his new Benjamin Britten feature Nocturne, and his entire 7 hour, 46 minute dramatic reconstruction of the life of composer Richard Wagner, the last film Richard Burton even made.
“The Cork Film Festival is going out on a limb to bring its films to a wider audience. This should be celebrated, and I’m delighted to be involved.
The bundle went live on Wednesday 14 May, the opening day of Cannes International Film Festival, and runs until Tuesday 3 June.
- 5/24/2014
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
John Kastner's "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at this year's Hot Docs, which wrapped its 21st annual edition yesterday after a week of screening 197 documentaries from all over the world. Last night, at the festival's awards reception, 13 awards and $66,000 in cash and prizes were presented to filmmakers, including Kastner. "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" is the director's follow-up to "Ncr: Not Criminally Responsible," which screened at Hot Docs last year. In both films, Kastner filmed gained rare access to the Brokville Mental Health Centre in Ontario, Canada. In a jury statement, the documentary was praised "for finding deep empathy and humanity in one of the most physically and emotionally harrowing environments imaginable, and for bringing insight to the emotional complexity surrounding the issue of mental illness." Here's the full list of this year's winners (descriptions courtesy of Hot Docs): Best Canadian Feature.
- 5/3/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Out of Mind, Out of Sight, the latest documentary by the four-time Emmy award winning filmmaker John Kastner just had its world premiere at the ongoing Hot Docs- Canadian International Documentary Festival. Kastner gained un-hindered access to Brockville Mental Health Centre, a forensic psychiatric hospital. It is a facility which houses and treats those who are held not criminally responsible for their violent actions on account of their mental illness (in yesteryears such facilities were called asylum for the criminally insane). Kastner filmed for over 18 months making Out of Mind, Out of Sight an exceptionally insightful watch.
Out of Mind, Out of Sight reveals to us that even within the four walls of this hospital, there is a world of lovers and enemies, of disappointments and hopes.
The film focuses on four chosen residents of the hospital, two men and two women, whom we get to know through uninhibited interviews with the doctors,...
Out of Mind, Out of Sight reveals to us that even within the four walls of this hospital, there is a world of lovers and enemies, of disappointments and hopes.
The film focuses on four chosen residents of the hospital, two men and two women, whom we get to know through uninhibited interviews with the doctors,...
- 5/1/2014
- by Shazia Javed
- DearCinema.com
With the final season of her hit AMC series "Mad Men" set to premiere April 13th, Jessica Pare garnered herself a little added exposure by covering the March 2014 issue of Fashion magazine.
The 33-year-old actress looked gorgeous in a white Kaufmanfranco dress for the Gabor Jurina and Zeina Esmail-shot front page while opening up about the show and her feminist views.
Check out a few highlights from Miss Pare's interview below. For more, be sure to visit Fashion!
On female friendships while on set:
"They make all the difference. If you go back and look at that episode in season 5, there is a scene where Megan and Peggy became friends. It was important for the audience to see that they’re not being competitive or cutting each other up. It helped people side with Megan as a character that the two of them genuinely like each other."
On her challenging...
The 33-year-old actress looked gorgeous in a white Kaufmanfranco dress for the Gabor Jurina and Zeina Esmail-shot front page while opening up about the show and her feminist views.
Check out a few highlights from Miss Pare's interview below. For more, be sure to visit Fashion!
On female friendships while on set:
"They make all the difference. If you go back and look at that episode in season 5, there is a scene where Megan and Peggy became friends. It was important for the audience to see that they’re not being competitive or cutting each other up. It helped people side with Megan as a character that the two of them genuinely like each other."
On her challenging...
- 2/14/2014
- GossipCenter
The voices in Sean Clifton's head told him to seek out 'the prettiest girl in the mall' and stab her. Julie Bouvier was that girl. In a unique film, they each tell their side of the story
It was an early October evening when 22-year-old Julie Bouvier and her friend Lynn decided to pop to their local shopping centre. Julie had forgotten Lynn's birthday, so wanted to take her out for a coffee. And Lynn had just had a baby and wanted to pick up some nappies. They parked and were walking towards the door of the store when Bouvier noticed a man behaving strangely.
"I saw him by the door, looking at me," she says. "As we were walking in, I turned back to have a second look and suddenly he was running towards me, yelling and cursing. He had wild, long hair and eyes so disturbed that I'll never forget them.
It was an early October evening when 22-year-old Julie Bouvier and her friend Lynn decided to pop to their local shopping centre. Julie had forgotten Lynn's birthday, so wanted to take her out for a coffee. And Lynn had just had a baby and wanted to pick up some nappies. They parked and were walking towards the door of the store when Bouvier noticed a man behaving strangely.
"I saw him by the door, looking at me," she says. "As we were walking in, I turned back to have a second look and suddenly he was running towards me, yelling and cursing. He had wild, long hair and eyes so disturbed that I'll never forget them.
- 6/8/2013
- by Lena Corner
- The Guardian - Film News
The White House Correspondents Dinner is taking place in Washington, DC tonight. The main event lies ahead, but that didn't stop a roster of Hollywood stars from kicking things off last night. Downton Abbey met Mad Men when Michelle Dockery and Jessica Paré made the rounds at The New Yorker's party. Jessica said hello to Michelle during a break from making the rounds with her apparent new guy, Canadian musician John Kastner. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend showed Pda at a People and Time bash, while Gerard Butler, who told us it's his first time in DC for the Correspondents dinner, made the rounds along with Gayle King, Gabby Douglas and more. Click through to see who turned out in the capital last night! Additional reporting by Annie Scudder View Slideshow ›...
- 4/27/2013
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Christopher Eccleston and Julie Walters garnered the main acting awards as British TV productions won five International Emmys, including two for the BBC crime anthology Accused.
Accused, written and created by Jimmy McGovern, received the Emmy for best drama series at the 39th Annual International Emmy Awards ceremony at the Hilton New York Hotel. The anthology tells the stories of people accused of crimes as they sit in holding cells beneath the courtroom awaiting the verdict in their trials.
The ceremony kicked off with a surprise appearance by Lady Gaga, wearing a tattooed-thigh-revealing, floor-length black gown and oversize sunglasses. She...
Accused, written and created by Jimmy McGovern, received the Emmy for best drama series at the 39th Annual International Emmy Awards ceremony at the Hilton New York Hotel. The anthology tells the stories of people accused of crimes as they sit in holding cells beneath the courtroom awaiting the verdict in their trials.
The ceremony kicked off with a surprise appearance by Lady Gaga, wearing a tattooed-thigh-revealing, floor-length black gown and oversize sunglasses. She...
- 11/22/2011
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
Andres Escobar in Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist‘s The Two Escobars (top); Guy Marchand in Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel‘s Family Tree (middle); Elsa Daniel in Leopoldo Torre Nilsson‘s The House of the Angel (bottom) Below are a few highlights at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Friday, June 18: Following a screening of Pink Floyd: The Wall, The Dark Knight‘s and the upcoming Inception‘s filmmaker Christopher Nolan will talk with film critic Elvis Mitchell about the influence of Alan Parker‘s 1982 feature/music video on his work. John Kastner‘s Canadian documentary Life with Murder shows how the parents of a murdered young woman do what they can to protect their son, the accused murderer, while Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist‘s documentary The Two Escobars shows how sports, big money, and tribalism can be an explosive mix. The two Escobars in question...
- 6/18/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
This year's Hot Docs [1] festival ended a couple of weeks ago, and and only now have we finally managed to purge our thoughts on the many documentaries that we've seen this year. Jay put up a much more comprehensive post over on The Documentary Blog [2], but I have taken a selection of these reviews and reposted them here for your convenience. If you like what you see, be sure to head over there and read the rest. Also, don't forget to check out previous reviews of the following films: Teenage Paparazzo [3] The People vs. George Lucas [4] Gasland [5] Arsy-Versy [6] Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage [7] American: The Bill Hicks Story [8] The Invention of Dr Nakamats [9] 12th & Delaware [10] The Oath [11] Secrets of the Tribe [12] Capsule reviews for more films including Steven Soderbergh's And Everything is Going Fine, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's Kings of Pastry, and the David Lynch transcendental meditation...
- 5/21/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival is set to run June 17-27 in a brand new location. Oh, it’s still in L.A, but it’s moving across town, from Westwood — where it’s been held the past few years — all the way over to Downtown.
The main “hub” for the fest will be the new L.A. Live complex, but there will also be screenings at other locations, such as the Downtown Independent and Redcat theaters. The city is really trying to build downtown up into a major arts and culture hub, so the festival moving there fits in with that agenda. Film Independent, the organization that runs Laff, also runs the annual Independent Spirit Awards, an event that also moved downtown — from Santa Monica — this year.
On Bad Lit, I tend to like to put up festival lineups that include days and times of screenings. However, since I...
The main “hub” for the fest will be the new L.A. Live complex, but there will also be screenings at other locations, such as the Downtown Independent and Redcat theaters. The city is really trying to build downtown up into a major arts and culture hub, so the festival moving there fits in with that agenda. Film Independent, the organization that runs Laff, also runs the annual Independent Spirit Awards, an event that also moved downtown — from Santa Monica — this year.
On Bad Lit, I tend to like to put up festival lineups that include days and times of screenings. However, since I...
- 5/17/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Like the headline says, the complete lineup for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival has been announced and it's a fascinating, eclectic mix. How happy am I to see music doc Separado! in there? Pretty damn happy, as it's one of my absolute favorites of the year and has been resoundingly overlooked. Read the complete announcement below!
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Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American...
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Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American...
- 5/4/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent from around the world.
The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 40 countries. This year, the Festival received more than 4,700 submissions from filmmakers around the world. The final selections represent 28 World, North American, and U.S. premieres, which more...
The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 40 countries. This year, the Festival received more than 4,700 submissions from filmmakers around the world. The final selections represent 28 World, North American, and U.S. premieres, which more...
- 5/4/2010
- by Staff
- Hollywoodnews.com
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- Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right to Kick Off Festival -
- World Premiere of Universal Pictures' 3-D CGI Feature Despicable Me Selected for Closing Night -
- Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to have World Premiere -
- Galas include Animal Kingdom, Cyrus, Mahler on the Couch, Revolución,& Waiting for Superman -
Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing...
- Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right to Kick Off Festival -
- World Premiere of Universal Pictures' 3-D CGI Feature Despicable Me Selected for Closing Night -
- Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to have World Premiere -
- Galas include Animal Kingdom, Cyrus, Mahler on the Couch, Revolución,& Waiting for Superman -
Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing...
- 5/4/2010
- by maint
- Film Independent
Anyone who is a parent will walk a fine line between empathy and judgment for the Jenkins family of Chatham, Ontario (Canada) while watching this documentary whodunit. When their 18-year-old Jennifer is brutally murdered in 1998 and their 20 year old son is the prime suspect, well, there are certainly some difficult loyalties to be sorted out. Especially when she was shot multiple times and dragged around the house a bit before passing on. Despite the lurid nature of the crime, the fact that it appears to be done within a family, and in a small town that probably has only a few murders a decade, director John Kastner (Rage Against the Darkness) manages to lay out the facts of the narrative with a look a the small details, and generate quite a bit of empathy for the parents, Brian and Leslie, although there is not much left in the tank for their incarcerated son,...
- 4/30/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Rock-and-roll comedy, co-starring Malcolm McDowell, to premiere at Toronto Film Festival.
By Gil Kaufman
Iggy Pop
Photo: Jesse Grant/ WireImage
Think of it as "Twilight" meets "True Blood" with a dash of "Rock Star." Rock-and-roll vampire spoof "Suck" is slated to debut at next month's Toronto Film Festival with an all-star cast of actual rockers that includes former Black Flag vocalist and notorious ranter Henry Rollins as radio DJ Rockin' Roger, punk icon Iggy Pop as retired rocker/producer Victor, original shock-rocker Alice Cooper as a creepy bartender and noted vegan Moby as Beef Bellows, lead singer of the bloody metal act Secretaries of Steak.
The movie follows a group of wannabe rockers called the Winners, who are, as you might suspect, kind of losers. After playing a mind-numbing series of lame gigs on their endless road trip, the group is suddenly transformed when bassist Jennifer (Jessica Pare) hooks up...
By Gil Kaufman
Iggy Pop
Photo: Jesse Grant/ WireImage
Think of it as "Twilight" meets "True Blood" with a dash of "Rock Star." Rock-and-roll vampire spoof "Suck" is slated to debut at next month's Toronto Film Festival with an all-star cast of actual rockers that includes former Black Flag vocalist and notorious ranter Henry Rollins as radio DJ Rockin' Roger, punk icon Iggy Pop as retired rocker/producer Victor, original shock-rocker Alice Cooper as a creepy bartender and noted vegan Moby as Beef Bellows, lead singer of the bloody metal act Secretaries of Steak.
The movie follows a group of wannabe rockers called the Winners, who are, as you might suspect, kind of losers. After playing a mind-numbing series of lame gigs on their endless road trip, the group is suddenly transformed when bassist Jennifer (Jessica Pare) hooks up...
- 8/24/2009
- MTV Movie News
TORONTO -- The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on Wednesday selected a jury to judge 77 films during the April 23-May 2 event in Toronto. Set for jury duty were documentary filmmakers Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com), Frederick Wiseman (Titticut Follies), Jennifer Baichwal (The True Meaning of Pictures), Tracey Deer (One More River), John Kastner (Rage Against Darkness), Ali Kazimi (Passage to India), Peter Wintonick (Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky and the Media) and Peter Lynch (Cyberman). Also named were Sundance Channel vp acquisitions Christian Vesper; Wolter Braamhorst, a commissioning editor for Dutch broadcaster AVRO, film producer Robin Cass, Toronto One executive director Karen King, Globe and Mail newspaper foreign editor John Stackhouse, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. head of documentary production Mark Starowicz and Sheffield International Documentary Festival director Brent Woods. The blue ribbon jury will choose prize winners in the categories of best Canadian short, best Canadian feature, best international short, best international feature and best film from the National Spotlight on the Netherlands.
- 3/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
U.S. filmmaker Paul Devlin's Power Trip has picked up the award for best international feature-length documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, which wrapped Sunday after a 10-day run. The documentary about efforts by a U.S. power company to keep the lights on in the Republic of Georgia amid the rubble of the Soviet collapse grabbed the jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival. The Hot Docs jury also gave a special award to State of Denial, U.S. filmmaker Elaine Epstein's portrayal of South Africans living with the AIDS epidemic amid confusion and neglect by their government. The jury prize for best Canadian feature documentary went to John Kastner's Rage Against the Darkness.
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