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Planet in Focus Film Festival looks at the world's 'Lost Rivers'
The film Lost Rivers, which was the opening presentation for the Planet in Focus Film Festival last night in Toronto, charts the fate of six rivers buried underneath six cities across the globe.
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival: A grassroots gem of the city's cinema scene
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF), now in its fifth year, is at once a grassroots organization and a gem of the Toronto cinema scene.
Six years ago, a group of activists had been screening films at the local and late Brunswick theatre, to much success. Once the Brunswick closed, the idea of a weeklong festival was born.
"A group of us decided to continue [with] the concept of the Brunswick screenings but do it as a film festival," explains Andrew Hugill, founding member of the TPFF organizing committee. A year later, 60 years after the Nakba, the very first Toronto Palestine Film Festival opened at the Bloor Cinema to a sold out audience.
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Maximum Tolerated Dose: Film exposes the horror of cruelty to animals
The maximum tolerated dose in animal testing is the amount that will kill the subject animal in an experiment. But in the Karol Orzechowski film, "Maximum Tolerated Dose" has a second meaning; what amount of pointless cruelty can researchers tolerate before scientific orthodoxy can no longer mask the useless and ethically intolerable suffering of living beings.
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Herman's House: The Panther Cage
Herman's House, a documentary by Toronto filmmaker Angad Singh Bhalla, will be premiering at the 2012 Hot Docs film festival.
The film documents the symbiosis between a prisoner and an artist. Jackie Sumell is a New York artist aching to make her political art more immediate, and relevant. Herman Wallace is a convicted bank robber sadly distinguished for having spent more time in solitary confinement than any other prisoner in America.
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Hot Docs hits Toronto
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