The Breast Fest Film Festival, happening November 2 – 4, is the the world’s first and only breast cancer film festival, and is celebrating its fifth anniversary by tackling the tough and controversial issues impacting the cancer community through its strong lineup of documentary and dramatic films as well as its high profile speakers series.
Guests for the festival will include Dr. Shelley Harris, Bruce Lourie, Mike Partain, Ravida Din and Mark Hierlihy as well as famous Canadians such as Scott Thompson, Elvira Kurt and Sandra Shamas.
The event includes screenings, industry events, and a comedy night during the festival.
Here’s the festival website: http://www.breastfestfilmfest.com
And a link to purchase tickets: https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/TicketingCatalog.aspx?eventid=103200
Want to win a pass for two to see ARGO in theatres? Answer below with your favourite Ben Affleck film and why:
Based on true events, “Argo” chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis—the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, a CIA “exfiltration” specialist named Tony Mendez (Affleck) comes up with a risky plan to get them safely out of the country. A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies.
Visit the film’s website here: www.argothemovie.com
We’ve teamed up with Warner Bros. Pictures Canada to give away advanced screening tickets to see Trouble With The Curve starring Clint Eastwood, Justin Timberlake, and Amy Adams! To win tickets, comment below with your favourite Clint Eastwood film and why. Winner will be selected at random.
Gus Lobel (Clint Eastwood) has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus—who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat—refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. He may not have a choice. The front office of the Atlanta Braves is starting to question his judgment, especially with the country’s hottest batting phenom on deck for the draft. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickey (Amy Adams), an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm whose drive and ambition has put her on the fast track to becoming partner. Against her better judgment, and over Gus’s objections, Mickey joins him on his latest scouting trip to North Carolina, jeopardizing her own career to save his. Forced to spend time together for the first time in years, each makes new discoveries—revealing long-held truths about their past and present that could change their future.
Trouble With The Curve hits theatres on September 21, 2012.
We’ve teamed up with Warner Bros. Pictures Canada to give away advanced screening tickets to see The Campaign starring Will Farrell and Zach Galifianakis! The Campaign follows two rival North Carolina politicians, Cam Brady (Will Farrell) and Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis), running for congress as they tangle with one another.
So how do you win tickets to see one of the summer’s biggest comedies? Upload a photo of yourself on Twitter holding a sign for either Cam Brady (Farrell) or Marty Huggins (Galifiankis). Be sure to tag @blogut and add either #VoteForCam or #VoteForMarty depending on which team you’re on. The winner will be selected at random and notified by August 4, 2012.
UofT student Jacqueline has captured the most colourful (and most fabulous) original Pride-themed picture and won Paramount’s Summer Prize Pack giveaway, which includes tickets to Part of Me, Katy Perry’s concert movie, special edition 3D glasses made specially for the film, Katy Perry t-shirts, and an inflatable beach ball.
Congratulations Jacqueline! See her picture below:
The film opens with the following lines: “It has been said that India is a golden bird. But people are forgetting our history. We are becoming modern…”. This is our introduction to Hindu extremist Prachi, a worker at the Durga Vahini camp. Next comes a direct contrast with the words of Ruhi, one of the 20 handpicked contestants of the Miss India pageant: “We as a country should move forward … we have to change, we have to change our mentality. As much as I love and respect my culture, I think of myself as a very modern young girl and I want freedom”. Thus, the binary between modern and traditional is established. Smooth transitions take us from one world of Indian culture to the other to create a wonderfully orchestrated film on the opposing views in India.
Directed by Canadian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja, The World Before Her beautifully contrasts the ideologies of Hindu extremists at the Durga Vahini camp and pageant contestants for Miss India. It is an insightful look into both ideals: old India, grounded in roots, and new India, modernized and designated Western.
Not only do we get to learn the values of Prachi and Ruhi, but we are also introduced to their parents to connect the circulation of ideas within a family. It invites the crossover between public and private with such an enlightening scope of both strict patriarchal familial values and liberal views. Moreover, we are introduced into the practices of both ideologies: the self-defense rituals, songs and prayers sessions, and training of the Durga Vahini camp as well as the pampering, skin-whitening treatments, exercise routines, and catwalk structures of the pageant contestants.
In addition to interviews, disturbing found footage show members of the extremist group rioting, vandalizing, and beating women for either being with a man or for having a drink. One short clip shows the remains of a vehicle where one Australian missionary was burned alive with his two sons by an angry mob. The images are powerful and self-spoken.
Although the film focuses on the specifics of Indian culture, what the film hinges on is the question of identity: identity of the individuals within the film and identity of a culture that is at odds with itself. It is an issue that is relevant when you live in city such as Toronto where our own definition of culture has become quite complex with our multitude of individual ethnic groups. In addition, the debate over external beauty is constantly being scrutinized by the public through images in the media in our own culture. The separation between interior beauty and exterior beauty links back to larger issues and questions over what is deemed moral. These issues are largely at play within the questioning of modern Indian in such cases as the Miss India pageant and whether or not it degrades women through the judgment of external beauty. What The World Before Her offers is invitation into the very complex lives of young women in India.
The World Before Her will be screened at this year’s Hot Docs. For more information visit their website. You can also check out the film’s Facebook page or follow them on Twitter. Watch the trailer below:
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