Category: World News

Cinetourism Continues to fuel Matera

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”. 

Conservatives and Liberals unite on projects of national interest

OTTAWA – The Conservatives have joined the Liberals in voting on a motion to pass a massive bill on major project approvals in the House of Commons by the end of the week. The bill would grant the federal government sweeping powers, including the ability to override laws on projects that are “of national interest,” particularly to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers in response to tariffs imposed by Donald Trump’s U.S. 

Pixar Returns to Italy for Inspiration

TORONTO – Four years ago, Pixar set aside its usual brain trust approach to filmmaking when they hired Enrico Casarosa to make his animated film Luca. The film follows a little boy’s adventures in Ponterosso, a fictional seaside town on the Italian Riviera. A Genoa native, Casarosa made the most of his creative license and developed a story which was not only nominated by Academy Awards, but in 2021 became the most-watched streaming film with over 10.6 billion minutes viewed (on Disney +).