Atlantic film fest to offer largest lineup ever
August 31, 2004
By CBC News Online Staff
HALIFAX - The annual Atlantic Film Festival is catching up to its Toronto and Montreal peers as organizers announced Tuesday the largest movie lineup in the festival's 24-year history.
"It's a great year for the Atlantic Film Festival," said Gregor Ash, executive director for the festival, held in Halifax from Sept. 17 to 25
The 2004 program will include 223 local, national and international films, including nine Atlantic and 21 Canadian features. An increased contingent of international movies, in particular from the U.K. and Ireland, helped push the lineup to its record-breaking numbers.
"We have more films this year than ever before," Ash said. "This is a great sign for things to come for next year's 25th anniversary."
The festival will open with Wilby Wonderful, a comedy shot in Nova Scotia about 24 hours in the life of the tiny island town of Wilby. Directed by Daniel MacIvor, the film features Callum Keith Rennie, Sandra Oh, Maury Chaykin, Paul Gross and Rebecca Jenkins.
Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries will close this year's event. The film stars Gael García Bernal as a 23-year-old Ché Guevara and Rodrigo De La Sema as his travelling companion during a nine-month trip through South America on an unreliable motorcycle in 1952.
The festival program will also include behind-the-scenes industry workshops, panels and classes, a "Live for $5" retrospective of Canadian director Ivan Reitman's oeuvre and a spotlight on gay and lesbian films, as well as musical acts, parties, receptions and a golf tournament.
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August 31, 2004
By CBC News Online Staff
HALIFAX - The annual Atlantic Film Festival is catching up to its Toronto and Montreal peers as organizers announced Tuesday the largest movie lineup in the festival's 24-year history.
"It's a great year for the Atlantic Film Festival," said Gregor Ash, executive director for the festival, held in Halifax from Sept. 17 to 25
The 2004 program will include 223 local, national and international films, including nine Atlantic and 21 Canadian features. An increased contingent of international movies, in particular from the U.K. and Ireland, helped push the lineup to its record-breaking numbers.
"We have more films this year than ever before," Ash said. "This is a great sign for things to come for next year's 25th anniversary."
The festival will open with Wilby Wonderful, a comedy shot in Nova Scotia about 24 hours in the life of the tiny island town of Wilby. Directed by Daniel MacIvor, the film features Callum Keith Rennie, Sandra Oh, Maury Chaykin, Paul Gross and Rebecca Jenkins.
Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries will close this year's event. The film stars Gael García Bernal as a 23-year-old Ché Guevara and Rodrigo De La Sema as his travelling companion during a nine-month trip through South America on an unreliable motorcycle in 1952.
The festival program will also include behind-the-scenes industry workshops, panels and classes, a "Live for $5" retrospective of Canadian director Ivan Reitman's oeuvre and a spotlight on gay and lesbian films, as well as musical acts, parties, receptions and a golf tournament.
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