The Film & Television Cluster of the GTA

Plus a look at other film and television clusters

The Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival

Film Festivals in the GTA

•Film festival for children

•April 12-18 2008

•68 film line-up

•30 foreign films with subtitles

•Director Helen Hood Sheer’s documentary

“Jump”

Film Circuit

Film Festivals in the GTA

•Located in Toronto & throughout Canada

•Currently has 190 groups

•Division of TIFFG

•Best film goers from under-served countries

•Notable films include:

•Away from her

•Volver

•la vie en rose

Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

Film Festivals in the GTA

•November

•Bloor Cinema, Isabel Bader Theatre, Innis

Town Hall, National Film Board Cinema

•Promotion through Meryl Streep

•November 12-18 2008 this year

Female Eye Film Festival

Film Festivals in the GTA

•Weekend of March 29th 2008

•6th annual

•Features all around the world

•Showcases woman's work

•Canada Square Cineplex & Cumberland 4

Cinema’s

•Opening film starring Ellen Page

Toronto Italian Film Festival

Film Festivals in the GTA

•10th annual

•June 11-15 2008

•1287 St.Clair Avenue West

•World, North American, and

Canadian Premiers

The Incredible Hulk

Other Film News in Toronto

•Filmed around U of T in August

•Filming done on Dundas to College

•7pm to 7am filming

•Soon to be released

Toronto Film School Attains New Technology

Other Film News in Toronto

•Recent up to date Sony cameras

•Gives graduates competitive advantage

Toronto Film Challenge

Other Film News in Toronto

•April 26th 2008

•Been running since 2005

•$200/ team of 8

•24 hour and 48 hour challenge

•Screenings on May 2nd at Bloor Cinema

Toronto Mono Viewer 2

Other Film News in Toronto

•Brought to you by the Toronto Film & Television Office

•Virtually scope Toronto for appropriate filming locations

•Some benefits include:

•Access to high resolution aerial images of the entire

City of Toronto

•Paste views into reports

•Create your own maps and label them

•Zoom into images at scales beyond 1:1,000

Linux New Soft Film Rendering Tool

News in Hollywood

•Modernize tasks and make operations easier

for production studios

•Suite of visual effects

•Increase productivity and effectiveness of

visual effect designing.

•Soon to be used in Hollywood

•Distribution in second quarter of the this year

Los Angeles Film School Degree Program

News in Hollywood

•Degree offering for immersive film program•12 month program•Located on Sunset Blvd.•Program focuses on

•the art•the technology, and•the business

•Teaches

•Directing, screenwriting, producing,

cinematography, art direction, production, and

postproduction

Los Angeles Film School

Vancouver International Film Centre presents SPARK VFX ‘08

News in Vancouver

•January 30 to February 4 2008•featured 9 films•Chosen from 50 nominated films of outstanding

visual effects•Films of the nine

•Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Ark•Jurassic Park•Blade Runner•King Kong

One million clicks on YouTube Canada

News in Vancouver

•Zack Matthew’s short animated video The

Switch

•About an animated character in a 3D

dimensional world that comes across a switch

•Great promotion for VFS as well as Vancouver

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