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How the Flin Flon Cowboy made his way to a Toronto stage
The Flin Flon Cowboy, Ken Harrower's new musical at Theatre Passe Muraille, draws on his own experiences as a gay, disabled man who was born in the titular northern Manitoba city.
2 more Oscar nominees headed to Winnipeg during busy fall filming period
Two more Oscar-nominated actors are coming to Winnipeg to shoot a movie this fall, with Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog) and Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) starring in The Zealot, about a shuttle driver hired to take a mysterious passenger from Minneapolis to Chicago.
'A kindness in the cold': 2 films screened at TIFF offer distinct views of Winnipeg
Two of the Manitoba-produced features screened at this year's Toronto International Film Festival — The Mother and the Bear, by Vancouver-based Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Johnny Ma, and Aberdeen, from Peguis First Nation's Ryan Cooper — offer bold and distinctive views of Winnipeg.
Filmmakers Guy Maddin, Matthew Rankin tell TIFF crowd about coming through Winnipeg's 'anti-mainstream' scene
Two Winnipeg-spawned who have both offered up surreal visions of the Prairie city — Guy Maddin and Matthew Rankin — talked to a Toronto International Film Festival crowd this week about the reception to their latest movies and what it's like to try to present Winnipeg to the world in film.
Bumper crop of movies with Manitoba roots hits Toronto International Film Festival
The province of Manitoba is extraordinarily well represented this month at the Toronto International Film Festival, with four features and three shorts with Manitoba connections.
Givin' 'er again: Deaner '89 an origin story for character made famous in Canadian cult classic Fubar
Dean Murdoch, a.k.a. The Deaner — the mullet-haired, hard-rocking headbanger who crashed his way into the Canadian comedy firmament with the cult films Fubar and Fubar 2 — returns in spectacular form in Deaner '89, a new origin story for the character invented and played by Paul Spence.
Stars fall on Manitoba as province sees potentially record-breaking year for film production
Rarely, if ever, have so many stars descended on Manitoba at the same time, with movies featuring everyone from Bob Odenkirk to Sharon Stone to Mark Hamill shooting here during what is looking like the busiest production calendar the province has ever seen.
Deaf screenwriter mines theme of communication in Manitoba-shot post-apocalyptic movie Finality of Dusk
As the Manitoba-lensed film Finality of Dusk had its Canadian premiere at this week's Whistler Film Festival in Vancouver, it's likely no one was paying closer attention to the movie's soundtrack than its co-writer Katarina Ziervogel. Bear in mind, the 26-year-old Winnipegger Ziervogel is deaf.
Members of audacious Winnipeg film collective return with new horror short — that's also a beer commercial
The annual Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal has long been a kind of global clearing house for weird and wonderful genre movies from around the world — but this year, one of its most unexpected entries is a seven-minute beer commercial from a film collective with Winnipeg roots.
Manitoba-shot film Polarized explores issues of division through love story
The new feature film Polarized, set and shot in rural Manitoba, tells the story of two women whose relationship takes a surprising turn — a story inspired in part by its writer-director, Shamim Sarif, and her own once-forbidden relationship her wife and creative partner.