Like all the best people working in comedy, Dean DeBlois appreciates a good boob joke. Not that the perfectly silly one in the writer-director’s new 3-D animated film is very naughty.
You don’t have to have seen The Runaways, the new biopic about Joan Jett’s early years as a teenage rocker, to know the directorial flair of Floria Sigismondi, an Italian-born, Canadian-raised filmmaker now based in the U.S.
Don McKellar hadn’t planned for his role in Cooking With Stella to be an exercise in method acting, but the same kinds of culture shock happening on-screen were occurring every day while he was shooting the film in India.
In the winter of 2006, the southern Chinese railway system was paralyzed by a snowstorm, with 60,000 people stuck at the Guangzhou train station. Montreal-based director Lixin Fan calls what he saw a “war zone”.
The director of independent films like Clerks and Chasing Amy is sitting in a New York City hotel room discussing the new experience of being a director for hire without screenplay input.
Here are some of the films and people whose victories would make the show memorable. They range from sentimental favourites to locally produced talent and fortunate individuals who beat the odds just by winning a nomination.