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Actor Catherine O’Hara in a still from the four-minute video All of Us Shine by Jewish community member Hart Snider. (See jewishindependent.ca) For the 12th year, the NFB brought together acclaimed filmmakers to create short cinematic tributes to Canadian performing…
Maxine Lee Ewaschuk, in a still from the documentary Periphery, which premièred last month at the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre in North York, and is available to view online. On Oct. 28, the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre in North York…
The Nov. 1 online event Finding Grounds for Goodness includes the première presentation of Finding Grounds for Goodness in the Downtown Eastside, which was created during last year’s Heart of the City Festival. (photo from Jumblies Theatre) This year’s Downtown Eastside Heart…
Philippe Tlokinski stars in Adventures of a Mathematician. (photo from Samuel Goldwyn Films) Forgotten your calculus? Simple geometry is more than sufficient to follow the triangular saga of Polish-Jewish brainiac Stanislaw Ulam from the cloistered classrooms of Harvard to Robert…
A still from the feature film Charlotte, about artist Charlotte Salomon. The creative drive that some people have astounds me. In about a year-and-a-half, as the Holocaust closed in on her – and her family’s history of depression became known…
Bard on the Beach’s Done/Undone, written by Kate Besworth, co-stars Harveen Sandhu and Charlie Gallant. (photo from bardonthebeach.org) Throughout COVID, Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach has been unable to mount its popular summer festival at Vanier Park. However, it is…
Michal Wiets uses her great-grandfather’s diaries as the basis for her film Blue Box. (image courtesy) At press time, the Vancouver International Film Festival lineup had not yet been announced. But the Independent received the names of some of the…
In Bayla’s Issues, the title character is plagued by the travails of aging and anxiety, and a desire for acknowledgement in the art world. Bayla’s Issues, a 2020 animated short based on the comic strip Bayla’s Comics by Vancouver artist…
Left to right: Lydia Okello, Shana Myara and Joanne Tsung. (photo from VQFF) The 2021 Vancouver Queer Film Festival, which runs until Aug. 22, includes the screening of local feature documentary Well Rounded, directed by Jewish community member Shana Myara.…
A still from Max Shoham’s animated film Sophie and Jacob. The Future of Film Showcase, an annual short film festival and professional development conference dedicated to fostering the future of emerging Canadian filmmakers, features 11 shorts from Canada’s most promising…
