Category: Featured

Marco Bellocchio’s “Rapito” – A Reminder of fine Italian Filmmaking

TORONTO – “Rapito” is a film whose scandalous history befitting of a 19th century Vatican, had initially lured the interest of Steven Spielberg. The American Director reportedly dropped the project after failing to find a suitable child actor for the lead role. While screening the film at Cannes last year, Rapito’s Italian Director Marco Bellocchio hypothesized on the American Director’s decision: “My feeling, speculation of course, is that he [Spielberg] may have seen the complexity of this very Italian and dramatic case, for which the Italian language is not necessarily obligatory, but very precious”

(more…)

Ford’s three wishes in a letter to Trudeau: “Stop the carbon tax and money for train and highway”

TORONTO – As if addressing the “genie of the lamp”, the Premier of Ontario expressed three wishes to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: and he did it through a letter where he outlines what the provincial government wants from the federal one. In the letter, sent Thursday, Doug Ford listed the three points: the Highway 413 project, the expansion of the Toronto-Milton “GO” train and the stop to the carbon tax.  (more…)

Italian-Canadian Nominated For Academy Award – Best Documentary

TORONTO – One of this year’s Oscar nominated Documentaries, To Kill A Tiger, was produced by Italian-Canadian Producer/Director/Writer Cornelia Principe. A rare feat considering that since 1929 only fifteen Canadians have been nominated in the category. The fine art to making a poignant documentary often hinges on how well the filmmakers execute their journalistic integrity with their ability to tell a story. In the case of To Kill A Tiger, filmmaker Nisha Pahuja documents a local story, but one that is echoed throughout the country. Her challenge is to report on a specific crime while telling a larger and more tragic story. 

(more…)