This summer in Toronto a whole lot of people are taking their movies outside. Here's a look at five local, summer long festivals to get you out of your sweaty apartment and out to the movies under the stars.
It's sometimes too episodic for its own good, but the filthy minded and good natured sex farce My Awkward Sexual Adventure works towards saving Canadian cinema from becoming too serious.
With the Canadian film Blood Pressure director Sean Garrity has crafted a dark fantasy about repressed dreams and suburban malaise with a real eye and ear for how such scenarios would most likely play out in reality.
We talk to Winnipeg born and current Toronto area filmmaker Sean Garrity about his dueling projects at the beginning of this year (with the award winning My Awkward Sexual Adventure and this weekend's Blood Pressure), suburban malaise, collaborating with actors, his working relationship with writer and actor Jonas Chernick, and what draws him to films about fledgling relationships.
With TIFF announcing the line-up for it's 12th annual Canada's Top Ten series in January, we take a look at their choices to represent the best of the Great White North in 2012.