Category: Festival
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Debby Friday Has Won The 2023 Polaris Music Prize For The Album Good Luck
Debby Friday Has Won The 2023 Polaris Music Prize For The Album Good LuckDebby Friday has won the 2023 Polaris Music Prize for the album Good Luck. This is Debby Friday’s first Polaris Music Prize win. The Prize, which was presented by CBC Music, goes to the best Canadian album of the year based on artistic merit without…
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Day #11 -Sun., Sept.17th, 2023
By The BKONTHESCENE Team It was the final day for TIFF2023, and we were invited to The TIFF Bell Lightbox – Malaparte for the breakfast award ceremony to close off TIFF for this year. What a whirlwind 11 days of screeners, Q&A, red carpets, receptions and galas. The Toronto International Film Festival has ended and…
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Day #10 -Sat., Sept. 16th, 2023
By The BKONTHESCENE Team We started our day with the In Conversation With Andy Lau, who is an icon in the global Chinese community, entertaining the world with his singing and acting talent spanning over four decades. He is one of the “Four Heavenly Kings” of Cantopop music and has performed in over 160 films…
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Day #9 -Fri., Sept. 15th, 2023
By The BKONTHESCENE Team We started the day at the Scotiabank Theatre for Smugglers. It’s a timepiece movie set in 1970’s South Korea, where smuggling is rampant and considered a heinous crime. However, it might be the only option for some haenyeo — women free divers who have harvested shellfish and other sea treasures for…
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Day #8 -Thurs., Sept. 14th, 2023
By The BKONTHESCENE Team The day started at the Scotiabank Theatre for The Nature of Love (French title Simple comme Sylvain). This was a Quebecois film – A Quebecois comedy love story This Canadian – France romantic comedy from Quebecois actor, writer, and director Monia Chokri (A Brother’s Love) tackles class difference and infidelity. The Nature of…
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Day#6-Tues.,Sept.12th,2023
By The BKONTHESCENE Team We started our day for –Backspot, a virtual Canadian film by D.W. Waterson From the minute the film starts we see Cheerleading as a sport. And a difficult one at that. These girls are athletes. Competitive athletes. And this film shows this. The relationships between the girls, the drive to be…
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Salma Hayek Pinault attends the premiere of ViX Original Film, EL SABOR DE LA NAVIDAD, Produced by Hayek Pinault’s Ventanarosa Productions at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival
L L to R: Salma Hayek Pinault, Images Courtesy of ViX L to R: Rodrigo Mazon, Erica Sánchez Su, Jennevie Olivieri-López, Jose Tamez, Salma Hayek Pinault, Alejandro Lozano, Billy Rovzar, Augusto Rovegno, Images Courtesy of ViX The Movie’s World Premiere Took Place on September 13 as Part of the Festival’s Special Presentations Program EL SABOR DE LA NAVIDAD…
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Day#5 – Mon., Sept. 11th, 2023
By The BKONTHESCENE Team Our day started with a Camera Call: TIFF STORY: Celebrities Battleground: Uniting for a Cancer-Free Tomorrow “1st Annual Battleground: Uniting for a Cancer-Free Tomorrow.” Our day started with Battleground, a celebrity basketball event that raised awareness on mental health and cancer, was where well-known figures from music, film, sports, and television came…
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Day#4-Sun.,Sept.10th,2023
By The BKONTHESCENE Team We started Day#4 at Roy Thompson Hall for Dumb Money. Dumb Money is the high profile financial story of the amateur investors and hedge fund billionaires that became the infamous GameStop Wall Street scandal. The high profile cast includes: Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Shailene Woodley, and America…
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Day#3-TIFF2023-Sat.,Sept.10th,2023
BY THE BKONTHESCENE TEAM Our early morning day began with the film screening – Les Indésirables (Batiment 5) at the Scotiabank Cinema. A moving French film by Director Ladj Ly set in an underprivileged suburb in Paris. The film deals with the racist policies forcing the poor into unsafe and unfortunate living conditions. With a strong…
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Day#1 OF TIFF2023-Thurs.,Sept.7th,2023
By THE BKONTHESCENE TEAM Day #1 TIFF 2023 – The Toronto International Film Festival 2023 started with Breakfast held at the beautiful BISHA Hotel main floor bar area-Mister C. for Press,Media & Industry. A chance to meet other Press and Industry people and share TIFF plans. An energizing start to TIFF . Then on to the films…
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Fan Expo@Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC)- Thurs.,August 24 – Sun.,Aug.27,2023
By The BKONTHESCENE Team Fan Expo 2023 literally hit the streets of Toronto this past weekend! Everywhere fans were seen in costume – great costumes! The fans were in full force to enjoy every moment of Fan Expo 2023. And the fans were there… thousands and thousands of them! The Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC)…
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AWA NIAGARA FESTIVAL August 26 + 27, 2023 Features Afrobeat Music, Dance and More In Queenston, Niagara-On-The-Lake
Saturday, August 26 & Sunday, August 27, 2023 from 2:00-10:00pm 116 Queenston Street, Queenston, Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON All Tickets Here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/awa-niagara-festival-2023-sat-sun-august-26th-27th-tickets-669521756597 The 3rd edition of the AWA Niagara Festival 2023, presented by the African Women Acting (AWA) organization, celebrates African Cultural Heritage and special guest artists. The annual festival presents talented, hard-working, resilient artists, who demonstrate tremendous effort in…
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Save the Date for the 8thAnnual Kensington Market Jazz Festival in Toronto
Mark your calendars and get ready to swing into a world of mesmerizing melodies and soulful rhythms at the much anticipated Kensington Market Jazz Festival. Returning to the heart of Toronto’s eclectic Kensington Market, this year’s festival promises to be an unforgettable celebration of jazz in all its vibrant forms. 🗓️ FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & SUNDAY, OCTOBER…
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Celebrating 18 Years of Caribbean Cinematic Excellence: CaribbeanTales International Film Festival Unveils Remarkable 2023 Lineup
By Steph.C. In celebration of its 18th anniversary, the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (CTFF) will take place from September 6th to 22nd. The festival presentations will be both online and in person, allowing the opportunity to reach the widest audience and ensuring that these vital visual stories remain available and relevant always. During the media…
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The Toronto Caribbean Carnival Festival-July 11th-Aug.7th ,2023
The Toronto Caribbean Carnival Festival swept the city this year for the 56th Anniversary of the Caribbean Festival, and what a way to celebrate the festivities with a “big time parade!”There wasn’t a formal gala this year,but that didn’t damper the spirit and the weather held up for the festivities all weekend. All who attended were excited…
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OSHEAGA 2023 A RECORD-BREAKING 16th EDITION: 155,000 festivalgoers! August 4 to 6, 2023Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal
The 16th edition of the OSHEAGA Music and Arts Festival presented by Bell in collaboration with Coors Light is one for the record books, with the biggest crowd in the festival’s history. As of 2 p.m. on Friday August 4 when the gates opened, there was a febrile energy on the festival site, where a whopping 155,000 passionate music fans from here and…
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TO Beer Festival With Musical Headliners-Ice Cube ,Special Guest Big Boi , Third Eye Blind &T-Pain@Exhibition Place on July 28-30, 2023
By Jesse Read & Shannen Johnson Toronto’s legendary annual Festival of Beer returned on July 28-30, 2023, to the Bet98 Bandshell Stage at Exhibition Place on the lovely waterfront with crowd favourite musical headliners Ice Cube and special guest Big Boi on Friday, Third Eye Blind on Saturday, and T-Pain on Sunday, along with over…
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Toronto Fringe Festival July 5 – 16, 2023
By Sally Warburton It’s July in Toronto and you know what that means… It’s the Toronto Fringe Festival! July 5th to 16th, the 35th Toronto Fringe Festival happens in various theatre venues in downtown Toronto. During the 12 days there are over 1200 artists in performances including comedy, musicals, drama, improvisation, theatre for children and storytelling.…
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Banned in China After Topping the Box Office, Li Ruijun’s Lyrical Golden Bear Nominee, RETURN TO DUST, Opens Exclusively in Theaters on 7/21
THE NORTH AMERICAN THEATRICAL PREMIERE OF LI’S CONTROVERSIAL AND AWARD-WINNING FILM OPENS AT BROOKLYN’S BAM ROSE CINEMAS ON JULY 21, 2023, WITH ADDT’L MARKETS TO FOLLOW “Return To Dust [features] beautifully-judged performances that radiate warmth and encourage empathy. It marks Li Ruijun as a significant cinematic talent.”– Anna Smith, Deadline Hollywood “This poetic tale of an arranged marriage which blossoms into a true partnership…
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