Browsing: Toronto International Film Festival

By Paul Salfen, Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine In a heartfelt conversation with AMFM Magazine, director Kirk Jones and star Robert Aramayo opened up about their award-winning film I Swear — a deeply human story that turns misunderstanding into empathy, one unpredictable tic at a time. The film, written and directed by Jones, chronicles the

Interview by Paul Salfen Synopsis: Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography, looks back on a lifetime of creating iconic moments in film and television, while he tries to pull off his most ambitious stunt yet, turning a dreamlike vision into reality. You may not know the name Joe Jennings, but you’ve surely seen his

A fan of Hot Tub Time Machine, Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger invites the left-wing Hollywood director Steve Pink to follow his efforts to hold Donald Trump accountable for the January 6 insurrection. Steve Pink was born in Evanston, Illinois and is now based in Los Angeles. He co-wrote the screenplays for Grosse Pointe Blank(97) and

Interview by Paul Salfen SYNOPSIS: Set in Tianjin in the 1920s, 100 YARDS drops audiences into a time in history a mere decade after the 1912 establishment of the first formal martial arts school in the area. As more schools began opening and acting as natural crime deterrents in their designated areas, martial arts practitioners—and

Interview by Paul Salfen MOVIE SYNOPSIS: In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.