In some American Indian tribes, when important matters are being discussed a “talking stick” is handed around. Whoever holds it is the only one who may speak, while the others listen. Hence the name of the Talking Stick Film Festival.  “I look at each film as each person’s time to hold the talking stick, to tell the story in their way,” said festival director Karen Redhawk Dallett.

In some American Indian tribes, when important matters are being discussed a “talking stick” is handed around. Whoever holds it is the only one who may speak, while the others listen. Hence the name of the Talking Stick Film Festival. “I look at each film as each person’s time to hold the talking stick, to tell the story in their way,” said festival director Karen Redhawk Dallett. More than 100 …

SANTA FE, N.M. June 20, 2008, 03:37 pm ET · In some American Indian tribes, when important matters are being discussed a “talking stick” is handed around. Whoever holds it is the only one who may speak, while the others listen. Hence the name of the Talking Stick Film Festival.

In some American Indian tribes, when important matters are being discussed a “talking stick” is handed around. Whoever holds it is the only one who may speak, while the others listen. Hence the name of the Talking Stick Film Festival.

LOS ANGELES, California—“Timberlake does steal a few moments with his awful Canadian accent,” Variety’s film reviewer, Brian Lowry, wrote about Justin Timberlake’s performance in Mike Myers’ “The Love Guru.” Timberlake plays Jacques “Le Coq” Grande, a Speedo-wearing, well-endowed French-Canadian hockey player.

The organizers of the Academy Awards have limited the number of nominations for any one film in the best song category to two.

, they appear to be keeping score of how their membership is responding to the introduction of bill C-61. So far there are four member

“Want to rip a DVD so you can show your film-class students a series of clips? Nope. Want to post a Battlestar Galactica tribute video to YouTube? Time to hire a lawyer. If it’s locked - and the definition of what constitutes a lock is terrifically vague - then in most instances you can’t touch it.”

In some American Indian tribes, when important matters are being discussed a “talking stick” is handed around. Whoever holds it is the only one who may speak, while the others listen.

Gurpreet Singh Chana’s euphoria at being asked to audition for his first lead film role quickly turned to apprehension when he learned what part was on offer.

Peter Lynch is keenly aware of the ways that we imprint our dreams and desires onto the natural world

NFB’s Oscar shorts on YouTube.

Monique Simard at the NFB in August 2008.

Four NFB productions and coproductions pick up seven 2008 Gemeaux Award nominations

The names of this year’s finalists for the 23rd Gemeaux Awards were announced at a press conference held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Montreal last week.

LIST OF FINALISTS

Best Biography or Portrait
• CITIZEN LAMBERT – JOAN OF ARCHITECTURE - Amélie Blanchard, Paul Cadieux, Teri Wehn-Damish (Philia Films/Les Films de la Perrine/National Film Board of Canada)

Best Documentary: Society
• THE INVISIBLE NATION - Richard Desjardins, Colette Loumède, Robert Monderie (National Film Board of Canada)

Best Documentary: Nature and Science
• MYSTICAL BRAIN - Colette Loumède, Isabelle Raynauld (National Film Board of Canada)

Best Animation Series or Program
• LÉON IN WINTERTIME - Laurence Bégeot, Emmanuel Bernard, Marc Bertrand, Marie-Josée Corbeil, Christine Côté, François Deplanck, Pascal le Nôtre (Folimage/TPS Jeunesse/Divertissement Subséquence/ National Film Board of Canada)

Best Script: Documentary
• Richard Desjardins, Robert Monderie – THE INVISIBLE NATION (NFB)

Best Editing: public affairs, documentary - program
• Myriam Poirier - CITIZEN LAMBERT – JOAN OF ARCHITECTURE (Philia Films/Les Films de la Perrine/ National Film Board of Canada)

Best Original Music Score: Documentary
• Claude Fradette - THE INVISIBLE NATION (National Film Board of Canada)

New initiative focuses on promoting professional filmmakers

This week, the online video-sharing site, YouTube, is launching their new Screening Room (www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom) with a series of professional-quality short films - including Torill Kove’s Oscar-winning short, The Danish Poet.

The Screening Room is a place for filmmakers to distribute their work and share profits. YouTube will add four new films every two weeks.

Other current films include:

Love and War
Our Time is Up
Are You the Favourite Person of Anybody

Upcoming films include Josh Raskin’s Academy Award-nominated animated short, I Met The Walrus.

Soon, filmmakers will be able to submit their own work to the Screening Room through an online submission process and users will be able to share opinions and buy DVDs and digital downloads of through the site. 

Mike Myers goofs it old school with “The Love Guru,” his first non-Shrek role in ages, a film that flies in the face of all that is Apatow in today’s screen comedy. Here, the Canadian cutup taps into America’s yen for spiritual advisers, from Dr. Phil to Oprah to his old friend Deepak Chopra, in a punny put-on about an American-born guru (Myers) trying to crack the saturated U.S. guru market. …