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Watch Movies: DECEMBER 2007 Festival Films
Little Claus & Big Claus
LIVE/ANIMATION
UK, 22 min.
Drawn with Lines
ANIMATION
US, 5 min.
Native New Yorker
DOCUMENTARY
US, 13 min.
Their Circumstances
ANIMATION
US, 15 min.
Little Guys
COMEDY
US, 4 min.
Buzzed
DRAMA
CAN, 20 min.
Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the December Festival - moderated by Multiple Award Winner Writer's Guild Writer/Producer JOHN MAY . There is a video moderation for each film presented as well.
Watch Movies: NOVEMBER 2007 Festival Films
Pillowgirl
EXPERIMENTAL
US, 7 min.
Wave
DRAMA
UK, 9 min.
I-Nasty
COMEDY
US, 11 min.
Keep this Coupon
MUSICAL
US, 3 min.
Loving the In-Laws
COMEDY
CAN, 24 min.
Fault
ANIMATION
USA, 4 min.
The Adventures of Ratman
COMEDY
CAN, 13 min.
The Bite
ANIMATION
US, 4 min.
Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the November Festival - moderated by SUN MEDIA Film Critic LIZ BRAUN . There is a video moderation for each film presented as well.
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Watch Movies: OCTOBER 2007 Festival Films
Abandon Computers
DRAMA
CAN, 18 min.
Available Men
COMEDY
US, 15 min.
Deadtime Stories with Mariachi Goose
MUSICAL
US, 10 min.
Der Ostwind
WAR
US, 10 min.
Lanesplitting
DOCUMENTARY
USA, 4 min.
Marion
EXPERIMENTAL
USA, 7 min.
Perennial
DRAMA
CAN, 13 min.
Photography Lessons
DOCUMENTARY
CAN, 11 min.
Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the October Festival - moderated by Academy Award and Emmy Nominated Producer ERIN FAITH YOUNG . There is a video moderation for each film presented as well.
Watch the VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS from the October Reading Series. Also watch the FULL READINGS of the first act scripts presented:
ACE IN THE HOLE
MY KHRUSHCHEV SEPTEMBER
THE WANDERLUST
The event was moderated by Award winning Director MICHAEL KENNEDY .
Watch Films Online: AUGUST 2007 Festival Films
The Bicyle
DOC
Canada, 14 min. The Blacksmith and
the Carpenter
COMEDY
US, 11 min.
Boxes
ANIMATION
USA, 4 min.
The Magic Projector
ANIMATION
Canada, 14 min.
Moth to Light
DRAMA
US, 9 min.
Sweet Tooth
COMEDY
CAN, 5 min.
Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the August Festival - moderated by TOP Film Critic from the Globe and Mail and Entertainment Weekly LIAM LACEY . There is a video moderation for each film presented as well.
Watch the VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS from the August Reading Series - featuring the FEATURE SCREENPLAY winning script 'BLUNT' by Rae Dawn Chong and moderated by producer/casting director RON LEACH .
Watch Films Online: JULY 2007 Festival Films
Bread, Salt, and Water
DRAMA
Canada, 9 min.
A Garota
ANITMATION
Mexico, 4 min.
Help Is Coming
DRAMA
USA, 7 min.
Inheritance
ANIMATION
Canada, 6 min.
Jump
DRAMA
Canada, 10 min.
Puppet
ANIMATION
USA, 6 min.
The Universal Hanging Together of All Things
COMEDY
Canada, 7 min.Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the July Festival - moderated by Writer PAUL BELLINI from the Kids in the Hall fame. There is a video moderation for each film presented.
Watch the Highlights of the WINNING SHORTS SCRIPTS from July's Reading Series Event. Moderated by Director DAVID WEAVER :
BUS STOP
THE THESPIAN
BEYOND REASON
AND WATCH THE SIX ONE PAGE WINNING SCRIPT READINGS FOR JULY:
SOCKDOM
RUPERT AND THE BUDDHA
PROPHETS
IN MEDIAS RES
RETRIBUTION
BURIED AT SEA
Watch Films Online: JUNE 2007 Festival Films
The Red Kite
ANIMATION
CAN, 4 min.
Circo Oscuro
EXPERIMENTAL
USA, 18 min.
My Life in Subtitles
COMEDY
USA, 10 min.
Tarot
COMEDY
UK, 22 sec.
Na Suh
ANIMATION
USA, 8 min.
Coffeeee
ANIMATION
CAN, 4 min.
Caught In Paint
DOCUMENTARY
USA, 6 min.
Siobhan
ANIMATION
CAN, 5 min.
The Beginning
of the End
Drama
Brazil, 6 min.Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the June Festival - Moderated by Toronto Star Film Critic SUSAN WALKER . There is also a video moderation for each film presented as well.Watch the VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS from the June Reading Series - Featuring the 1st ACT to ACT to ACT Screenplay Challenged and Moderated by Actor/Producer JEFF SEYMOUR
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Watch Films Online: MAY 2007 Festival Films
Baseball and Glory
STUDENT
USA, 8 min.
Da Bomb
DRAMA
Canada, 4 min.
Forgotten
COMEDY
Canada, 3 min.
Game of Life
DRAMA
Canada, 5 min.
Los ABCs
ANIMATION, COMEDY
USA, 5 min.
Tales of Mere Existence
ANIMATION, COMEDY
USA, 7 min.
The Duel
DRAMA
USA, 14 min.
Broken Mirror
DRAMA, STUDENT
CAN, 6 min.Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the May Festival - Moderated by Toronto International Film Festival Creator and Founder BILL MARSHALLWatch the VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS from the May Reading Series - Featuring the FEATURE SCREENPLAY Winning Script CRUEL WORLD by Lisa O'Donnell and Moderated by Actor/Director JAMES ALLODIWatch Films Online: APRIL 2007 Festival Films
Family Practice
DRAMA
Canada, 9 min.
Foster
COMEDY
UK, 9 min.
Halley's Comet
DRAMA
Canada, 12 min.
Happy Now
DRAMA
Canada, 9 min.
Last Night
COMEDY
USA, 4 min.
The Tribe
DOCUMENTARY
USA, 15 min.
Mommy! Mommy! There's a Monster on the Stairs!
FANTASY, CAN 4 min.
The King of Siam
DRAMA
CAN, 23 min.Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the April Festival - Moderated by Metro News Film Critic NORMAN WILNERWatch the VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS from the April Reading Series - Featuring the 4 SHORT SCRIPT WINNERS and Moderated by Director JERRY CICCORITTIAlso watch the short script readings of PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY AND FLY ON THE WALL from the event too! Featuring some of the Top Actors working in Toronto today.
Watch Films Online: MARCH 2007 Festival Films
Chrysanthemums the Word
COMEDY
UK, 15 seconds
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DOCUDRAMA
France, 8 min.
Music of a Forgotten Master
DOCUDRAMA
Canada, 5 min.
Split City
ACTION
Canada, 10 min.
The Pit and the Pendulum
ANIMATION
Canada, 7 min.
Way
ANIMATION
USA, 13 min.
Wright Stuff Part 3
COMEDY
USA, 6 min.
Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the March Festival - Moderated by Producer/Director COLIN BRUNTONWatch the VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS from the March Reading Series - Featuring our 1st ACT to ACT to ACT Screenplay Challenge where we read 3 1st ACT Screenplays and the audiences votes on what script they want to hear in its entirety and Moderated by Producer/Casting Director RON LEACH
Watch Films Online: FEBRUARY 2007 Festival Films
Bus Kong
ANIMATION
UK, 2 min.
Fertile Attraction
COMEDY
Canada, 8 min.
Purple Lipstick
EXPERIMENTAL
Canada, 8 min.
Robota
ANIMATION
Canada, 10 min.
Set Your Alarms
DOCUMENTARY
Canada, 6 min.
Wright Stuff Part 2
COMEDY
USA, 6 min.Watch the VIDEO MODERATION from the February Festival - Moderated by Film Critic and Radio Host JOHN MOOREWatch the VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS from the February Reading Series - Featuring the 3 SHORT SCRIPT WINNERS and Moderated by Story Editor MARGUERITE PIGOTTAlso watch the short script readings of The Switchero and GRANNY ASSASSIN from the event too! Featuring some of the Top Actors working in Toronto today.
Watch Films Online: JANUARY 2007 Festival Films
Catch and Release
DRAMA
Canada, 14 min.
First Round
ACTION, FAN FILM
USA, 13 min.
Letter to Liza
EXPERIMENTAL
Canada, 7 min.
Orange Sarong
POEM
Canada, 5 min.
Photomateurs
DRAMA
France, 19 min.
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DRAMA
USA, 23 min.
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Capote
2005
dir. by Bennett Miller
starring
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Catherine Keener
Ocean's Eleven
2001
dir. by Steven Soderbergh
starring
George Clooney
Brad Pitt
Matt Damon
Judgment Day:
Intelligent Design on Trial
2007
dir. by Gary Johnstone, Joseph McMaster
Documentary
Sexy Beast
2000
dir. by Jonathan Glazer
starring
Ray Winstone
Ben Kingsley
Heist
2001
dir. by David Mamet
starring
Gene Hackman
Danny DeVito
Anger Management
2003
dir. by Peter Segal
starring
Anger Management
Jack Nicholson
Almost Famous
2000
dir. by Cameron Crowe
starring
Billy Crudup
Kate Hudson
Casino Royale
2006
INSTANT CLASSIC!
dir. by Martin Campbell
starring
Daniel Craig
Judi Dench
1990's Films
Heat
1995
dir. by Michael Mann
starring
Robert DeNiro
Al Pacino
The Matrix
1999
dir. by The Wachowski Brother
starring
Keanu Reeves
Carrie-Anne Moss
Magnolia
1999
dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson
starring
Tom Cruise
John C. Reilly
Jungle Fever
1991
dir. by Spike Lee
starring
Wesley Snipes
Annabella Sciorra
Swingers
1996
dir. by Doug Liman
starring
Jon Favreau
Vince Vaughn
The Commitments
1991
dir. by Alan Parker
starring
Robert Arkins
Colm Meaney
Dazed and Confused
1993
dir. by Richard Linklater
starring
Jason London
Matthew McConaughey
Ben Affleck
The Game
1997
dir. by David Fincher
starring
Michael Douglas
Sean Penn
Being John Malkovich
1999
dir. by Spike Jonze
starring
John Cusask
John Malkovich
Pulp Fiction
1994
dir. by Quentin Tarantino
starring
John Travolta
Samuel L. Jackson
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
dir. by Frank Darabont
starring
Tim Robbins
Morgan Freeman
Good Will Hunting
1997
dir. by Gus Van Sant
starring
Matt Damon
Robin Williams
Flirting with Disaster
1996
dir. David O. Russell
starring
Ben Stiller
Patricia Arquette
Tea Leoni
Goodfellas
1990
dir. Martin Scorsese
starring
Ray Liotta
Robert DeNiro
Joe Pesci
Scream
1996
dir. by Wes Craven
starring
Neve Campbell
Courteney Cox
1980's Films
Major League
1989
dir. by David S. Ward
starring
Tom Berenger
Charlie Sheen
Babette's Feast
1987
dir. by Gabriel Axel
starring
Stéphane Audran
Birgitte Federspiel
Purple Rain
1984
dir. by Albert Magnoli
starring
Prince
Apollonia Kotero
Caddyshack
1980
dir. by Harold Ramis
starring
Bill Murray
Chevy Chase
Rodney Dangerfield
Wallstreet
1987
dir. by Oliver Stone
starring
Charlie Sheen
Michael Douglas
Barfly
1987
dir. by Barbet Schroeder
starring
Mickey Rourke
Faye Dunaway
Batman
1989
dir. by Tim Burton
starring
Jack Nicholson
Michael Keaton
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
dir. by Steven Spielberg
starring
Harrison Ford
Karen Allen
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984
dir. by Steven Spielberg
starring
Harrison Ford
Kate Capshaw
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
dir. by Steven Spielberg
starring
Harrison Ford
Sean Connery
Heaven's Gate
1980
dir. by Michael Cimino
starring
Kris Kristofferson
Christopher Walken
Blade Runner
1982
dir. by Ridley Scott
starring
Harrison Ford
Rutger Hauer
Dead Calm
1989
dir. by Phillip Noyce
starring
Nicole Kidman
Sam Neill
The Karate Kid
1984
dir. by John G. Avildsen
starring
Ralph Macchio
Pat Morita
Elisabeth Shue
Robocop
1987
dir. by Paul Verhoeven
starring
Peter Weller
Ronny Cox
Labyrinth
1986
dir. by Jim Henson
starring
Jennifer Connelly
David Bowie
Born on the 4th of July
1989
dir. by Oliver Stone
starring
Tom Cruise
Willem Dafoe
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
dir. by Wes Craven
starring
Amanda Wyss
Johnny Depp
The Untouchables
1987
dir. by Brian De Palma
starring
Kevin Costner
Sean Connery
The Mission
1986
dir. by Roland Joffé
starring
Robert DeNiro
Jeremy Irons
Raging Bull
1980
dir. by Martin Scorsese
starring
Robert DeNiro
Joe Pesci
Say Anything
1989
dir. Cameron Crowe
starring
John Cusask
Ione Skye
Lili Taylor
Do the Right Thing
1989
dir. Spike Lee
starring
Spike Lee
Danny Aiello
Ozzie Davis
Big
1988
dir. Penny Marshall
starring
Tom Hanks
Elizabeth Perkins
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Killer of Sheep
1977
dir. by Charles Burnett
starring
Henry G. Sanders
Kaycee Moore
The Sting
1973
dir. by George Roy Hill
starring
Paul Newman
Robert Redford
A Clockwork Orange
1971
dir. by Stanley Kubrick
starring
Malcolm McDowell
Warren Clarke
Annie Hall
1977
dir. by Woody Allen
starring
Diane Keaton
Woody Allen
Westworld
1973
dir. by Michael Crichton
starring
Yul Brynner
Richard Benjamin
Apocalypse Now
1979
dir. by Francis Ford Coppola
starring
Martin Sheen
Marlin Brando
The Panic in Needle Park
1971
dir. by Jerry Schatzberg
starring
Al Pacino
Halloween
1978
dir. by John Carpenter
Mean Streets
1973
dir. by Martin Scorsese
starring
Harvey Keitel
Robert DeNiro
Duel
1971
dir. by Steven Spielberg
starring
Dennis Weaver
Frenzy
1972
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
starring
John Finch
Barry Foster
Taxi Driver
1976
dir. by Martin Scorsese
starring
Robert DeNiro
Jodie Foster
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
1975
dir. by Milos Foreman
starring
Jack Nicholson
Louise Fletcher
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
dir. Don Siegel
starring
Clint Eastwood
1960's Films
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
1962
dir. by Robert Aldrich
starring
Bette David
Joan Crawford
Funny Girl
1968
dir. by William Wyler
starring
Barbra Streisand
Omar Sharif
Batman
1966
dir. by Leslie H. Martinson
starring
Adam West
Burt Ward
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964
dir. by Jacques Demy
starring
Catherine Deneuve
Nino Castelnuovo
Zulu
1964
dir. by Cy Endfield
starring
Michael Caine
Stanley Baker
The Graduate
1967
dir. by Mike Nichols
starring
Dustin Hoffman
Anne Bancroft
Psycho
1960
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
starring
Anthony Perkins
Janet Leigh
The Hustler
1961
dir. by Robert Rossen
starring
Paul Newman
Jackie Gleason
The Servant
1963
dir. by Joseph Losey
starring
Dirk Bogarde
James Foxx
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
dir. by Robert Mulligan
starring
Gregory Peck
Robert Duvall
Easy Rider
1969
dir. by Dennis Hopper
starring
Peter Fonda
Dennis Hopper
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961
dir. Blake Edwards
starring
Audrey Hepburn
George Peppard
Mickey Rooney
The Apartment
1960
dir. Billy Wilder
starring
Jack Lemon
Shirley MacLaine
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
dir. George Roy Hill
starring
Paul Newman
Robert Redford
1950's Films
Marty
1955
dir. by Delbert Mann
Ernest Borgnine
Betsy Blair
The Seven Year Itch
1955
dir. by Billy Wilder
Marilyn Monroe
Tom Ewell
Tokyo Story
1953
dir. by Yasujiro Ozu
starring
Chishu Ryu
Chieko Higashiyama
An Affair to Remember
1957
dir. by Leo McCarey
starring
Carey Grant
Deborah Kerr
The Quiet Man
1952
dir. by John Ford
starring
John Wayne
Maureen O’Hara
The Trouble with Harry
1955
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
starring
Edmund Gwenn
John Forsythe
The Browning Version
1951
dir. by Anthony Asquith
starring
Michael Redgrave
The Man Who Cheated Himself
1950
dir. by Felix E. Feist
starring
Lee J. Cobb
Jane Wyatt
The Killing
1956
dir. by Stanley Kubrick
starring
Sterling Hayden
Elisha Cook
Rear Window
1954
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
starring
Jimmy Stewart
Grace Kelly
Shane
1953
dir. George Stevens
starring
Alan Ladd
Jean Arthur
Jack Palance
The Long, Hot Summer
1958
dir. Martin Ritt
starring
Paul Newman
Orson Welles
Joanne Woodward
1940's Films
Rope
1942
dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
starring
James Stewart
John Dall
The Great Dictator
1941
dir. by Charlie Chaplin
starring
Charlie Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Too Late for Tears
1949
dir. by Byron Haskin
starring
Lizabeth Scott
Don DeFore
Dan Duryea
Citizen Kane
1941
dir. by Orson Welles
starring
Orson Welles
Double Indemity
1944
dir. by Billy Wilder
starring
Fred MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck
Sullivan's Travels
1941
dir. Preston Sturges
starring
Joel McCrea
Veronika Lake
1930's Films
Duck Soup
1933
dir. by Leo McCarey
starring
Groucho Marx
Harpo Marx
Dodsworth
1936
dir. by William Wyler
starring
Walter Huston
A Night at the Opera
1935
dir. by Sam Wood
starring
The Marx Brothers
Employees Entrance
1933
dir. Roy Del Ruth
starring
Loretta Young
Grand Hotel
1932
dir. by Edmund Goulding
Greta Garbo
John Barrymore
1920's Films
John Gilbert" /
Flesh and the Devil
1926
dir. Clarence Brown
starring
Greta Garbo
John Gilbert
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