Here’s the latest news and updates from CFC residents and alumni this May.
FESTIVALS
Cannes Films Festival
May 16-27, 2023
In Flames, the feature directorial debut from CFC alum Zarrar Kahn and executive produced by Shant Joshi (Fae Pictures), had its World Premiere at Quinzaine des Cineastes, an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival. The film also includes original score by Slaight Music alum Kalaisan Kalaichelvan and editing by Craig Scorgie.
Read more here.
Inside Out
May 25 – June 4, 2023
The 33rd annual Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival includes a number of films from CFC alumni:
- I Used to Be Funny: Judy Holm and Paul Barkin (executive producer), Aimes Bessada (music)
- Before I Change My Mind: Alyson Richards (producer)
- Bloom Room: Ngardy Conteh George and Alison Duke (executive producer)
- Something You Said Last Night: Jessica Adams, Charlie Hidalgo and Harry Cherniak (producers), Luis De Filippis (writer-director) (Netflix/CFC Global Accelerator Participant)
- This Place: V.T. Nayani (writer-director-executive producer), Devery Jacobs (writer-star-executive producer), Kalaisan Kalaichelvan and Alexandra Petkovski (music), Maureen Grant (editor)
See the full list of films screening at Inside Out here.
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
June 1 – 11, 2023
- The musical comedy Less Than Kosher, edited by Ben Allan, is one of the Centrepiece films at this year’s TJFF
See the full list of films here.
INDUSTRY NEWS
- Mark Ratzlaff has been named one of the participants of Whistler Film Festival’s 2023 Screenwriters Lab with is project Middle of Nowhere
- Jennifer Holness makes The Hollywood Reporter’s list of The 40 Most Influential Women in International Film
- Lori Lozinski’s short documentary A Motorcycle Saved My Life is now available to stream on the NFB, watch it now!
- Inside the devastating new ‘Sixties Scoop’ drama Little Bird from Jennifer Podemski (Toronto Star)
- Tigress, a short film supported through the CFC/Netflix Calling Card Accelerator from director Maya Bastian, has been selected for Season 16 of CBC’s SHORT FILM FACE OFF
- Babe Nation, founded by Fifth Wave alum Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott, launched sales at Cannes for their latest feature Bonjour Tristesse
- How Craig Scorgie’s Unconventional Editing Process of In Flames Got it Slated at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (No Film School)
- Catch songs by Slaight Music alumna Alexandra Petkovski (FJØRA) on Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love
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