TORONTO – It’s another hellish weekend in many parts of Canada, and not only because of the summer heat but also, and above all, due to the wildfires. While we are writing this article, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) website – which is updated in real time, here – reports 500 active fires, all included (from those out of control to the contained ones) and many of these have created and are creating huge problems to the population.
TORONTO – Canadian author and Giller Finalist David Bezmozgis just wrapped on his third feature film in Italy. The author/filmmaker best known for his 2014 novel “The Betrayers”, directed the film adaptation in Puglia over three weeks in June. Scenes were shot in Bari, Bitetto, Monopoli, Mola di Bari and Modugno – but doubled for foreign cities. The Betrayers is about “A disgraced Israeli politician who comes face to face with the man who denounced him to the KGB and sent him to the Gulag”.
TORONTO – While the fire emergency continues in almost all of Canada, with almost 500 wildfires still active (including all of them, from those out of control to the “observed” ones), the first class action against one of the provincial governments could soon be launched, for “negligence” in protecting the population from fires and “damages”. →
TORONTO – Over the past two years, unemployment among 15 to 24 year-olds in Canada has risen by about 3 percentage points, one of the largest increases among the 25 largest economies in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), including Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. →
TORONTO – Since Carlo Lizzani’s 1949 documentary Nel Mezzogiorno Qualcosa è Cambiato (Something Has Changed in the South), nearly 60 major films have been shot in and around Matera’s 10,000-year-old cave dwellings – known as the Sassi. And now the sixth season of The Chosen, a very popular miniseries about the mission of Jesus of Nazareth, is being filmed in the aptly named “City of Stones”.
