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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Canadian Cinema</title>
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	<description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description>
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		<title>Genie Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 Genie Awards 2009 Academy of Canadian Cinema &#38; Television’s Genie Award nominations: Feb. 10, 2009 2009 Genie Award winners: Ottawa, April 4, 2009 (&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category) &#160; &#160; BEST MOTION PICTURE / MEILLEUR FILM Amal &#8211; David Miller, Steven Bray Ce qu&#8217;il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life &#8211; Bernadette Payeur, René Chénier Normal &#8211; Andrew Boutilier, Carl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Walk of Fame Nominations Contest Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE Canada’s Walk of Fame and RBC announced today a contest to nominate Canada’s Walk of Fame honourees.  Starting on March 30th, Canadians from coast-to-coast and around the world will be able to enter the contest by recommending potential nominees that they believe deserve to be recognized for their lifetime achievements in the fields of music, sport, film and television as well as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Canadian Films of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Ten Canadian Feature Films of 2008 (in alphabetical order, including future release dates) Adoration (above) – Atom Egoyan (Entertainment One/Seville Pictures, May 2009) Before Tomorrow – Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu (Alliance Films, February 2009) Ce qu’il faut pour vivre (The Necessities of Life) – Benoit Pilon (Entertainment One/Seville Pictures) C&#8217;est pas moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear!) – Philippe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRICK &#8216;R TREAT Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Written and directed by Michael Dougherty, Trick &#8216;r Treat is set in a small town that &#34;is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten.&#34; In the Trick &#8216;r Treat cast: Brian Cox, Anna Paquin, Quinn Lord, Dylan Baker, Moneca Delain, Tahmoh Penikett. Trick &#8216;r Treat opens in the US on &#8212; when else? &#8212; October 31. Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOUNG PEOPLE FUCKING Martin Gero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young People Fucking (2008) Direction: Martin Gero. Screenplay: Martin Gero and Aaron Abrams. Cast: Aaron Abrams, Diora Baird, Sonja Bennett, Callum Blue, Kristin Booth, Josh Cooke, Josh Dean, Ennis Esmer, Natalie Lisinska, Peter Oldring, Carly Pope &#160; &#160; Directed by Martin Gero and written by Gero and Aaron Abrams, Young People Fucking is a film about, you guessed it, young adults engaging in sexual intercourse, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Film Board of Canada Salute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A Salute to the National Film Board of Canada&#8221; (NFB) will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; &#8212; in partnership with the Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives &#8212; on Thursday, October 23, at 7 p.m. at the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The event will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIRE Deepa Mehta</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire (1996) Direction and screenplay: Deepa Mehta. Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Jaaved Jaaferi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ranjit Chowdhry, Kushal Rekhi, Alice Poon &#160; By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: I watched the 1996 Canadian film Fire by Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta after having long heard of its taboo nature based mainly on its depiction of lesbianism. And while not a silly film &#8212; such as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKFAST WITH SCOT Opens Los Angeles Gay &amp; Lesbian Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outfest 2008, the 26th Los Angeles Gay &#38; Lesbian Film Festival, kicks off this evening at downtown LA’s historic Orpheum Theatre with a screening of Laurie Lynd’s Breakfast with Scot, in which a straitlaced gay couple tries to handle an orphaned 11-year-old boy with a passion for feathered boas and rose hand cream. Adapted by Sean Reycraft from Michael Downing’s novel, the Canadian comedy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C.R.A.Z.Y. Clip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The film clip below, posted by agogika on youtube, is from the excellent Canadian comedy-drama C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005), a major box-office hit in Quebec, and the winner of 11 Genies and 13 Jutra awards in 2005. The tale of a young man (superbly played by Marc-André Grondin) who discovers both rock and roll and his homosexual tendencies at about the same time &#8212; much to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAREFUL Guy Maddin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Waterfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Careful (1992) Direction: Guy Maddin. Screenplay: Guy Maddin and George Toles; from a story by Toles. Cast: Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville, Paul Cox, Brent Neale &#160; In 1992, Winnipeg’s Guy Maddin and crew assembled for their third feature film &#8212; Careful, co-written by George Toles (and Maddin) and starring Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville, Paul Cox, and Brent Neale. The film takes [...]]]></description>
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