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Exclusive: Daniel Zolghadri, star of A24’s Funny Pages and upcoming Y2K, is negotiating for the lead role in The Temple, a sci-fi horror film from the Canadian writing and directing duo of Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas.

In the indie gearing up for a shoot up north, an orphaned millionaire (Zolghadri) dedicates his life and considerable fortune to finding the ghosts of his parents with the help of a skeptical radiation scientist.

Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott will produce for their Babe Nation Films, alongside the writer-director duo’s Lisa Pictures.

An in-demand talent on the indie scene, Zolghadri garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Performance for his work in Funny Pages, A24’s 2022 coming-of-age comedy written and directed by Owen Kline and produced by the Safdie brothers, which was named one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2022 by the National Board of Review.

Human remains recently discovered by hikers in the area where Julian Sands went missing back in January have been confirmed to be those of the British actor.

Sky News reports that the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed that the coroner has positively identified the remains as belonging the Sands, 65, who hasn’t been seen since he went hiking in California’s Mt. Baldy on January 13.

“The identification process for the body located on Mt Baldy on 24 June, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood,” reads a statement issued by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Read More: Julian Sands Disappears After Hiking On Dangerous Mount Baldy In California

“The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results,” the statement added. “We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to try to locate Mr Sands.

Exclusive: Kacey Rohl is set as a lead in ABC drama pilot L.A. Law, a revival of the iconic Steven Bochco legal drama. She joins original cast members Blair Underwood and Corbin Bernsen, who are reprising their roles as Jonathan Rollins and Arnie Becker, respectively, as well as fellow new series regulars Hari Nef, Toks Olagundoye, Ian Duff, John Harlan Kim and Juliana Harkavey.

In the pilot, written by Marc Guggenheim and Ubah Mohamed and to be directed by Anthony Hemingway, the venerable law firm of McKenzie Brackman — now named Becker Rollins — reinvents itself as a litigation firm specializing in only the most high-profile, boundary-pushing and incendiary cases.

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Rohl will play Sonia Layton, a social justice warrior who works as the office administrator at McKenzie Brackman — but probably has as sharp a legal mind as any of the attorneys on staff.

Underwood, Guggenheim and Mohamed executive...

Everyone wants to be loved by someone special. Many people also want attention and love from strangers. In our social media age that gives us access to strangers around the world, the allure of the like, the retweet, the reply, can be irresistable. The validation, with strangers' support, can be intoxicating; so can their money. In White Lie, writing-directing team Yonah Lewis and Cavin Thomas bring a story of a young woman whose entrancement with that fame and love has caused her to do dangerous and illegal things, which are quickly coming to a head with a vengeance. Katie (Kacey Rohl) is a university student in Hamilton, Ontario; she studies dance, has a wonderful girlfriend in Jennifer, and to all the world, she presents herself...

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"What do people think you have?" Rock Salt has debuted an official trailer for an indie drama titled White Lie, which originally premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. It also played at numerous other fests around the world, including the Vancouver, Calgary, Busan, Kolkata, Tallinn Black Nights, & Rio de Janeiro Film Festivals. Described as a "gripping cautionary tale for the fake news era", the film tells the story of a young woman at university who has been diagnosed with cancer. But it turns out she made it all up. As she deals with mounting pressure for the truth to come out, she doubles down, "unable to give up the real-life fantasy world she's constructed for herself." So sad... Inspired by a true story, too (actually: numerous true stories). Kacey Rohl stars as Katie, along with Martin Donovan, Connor Jessup, Amber Anderson, Sharon Lewis, Christine Horne, and Dan Beirne.

Indie Rights has acquired worldwide rights to Chasing the Rain, the drama written and directed by Cindy Jansen that stars Matt Lanter. The distributor has set a December 18 bow on VOD and digital platforms.

In Jansen’s debut feature, which she also produced, Lanter plays a shy photographer who desperately tries to fit in with his friends and hold on to the decent life he seems to have. When tragedy befalls him, his unresolved past begins unraveling, threatening to destroy his work and relationships. William Russ, Hallee Hirsh, Yetide Badaki, Eric Tiede, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Maiara Walsh, Dendrie Taylor and Cindy Pickett also star.

Bob L. Johnson and Faras Rabadi are executive producers.

“Chasing the Rain is a powerful and entertaining film, one that is timely and relevant to the struggles we’ve faced in 2020, both personally and globally. We are thrilled to partner with Cindy and NightMuse Productions to bring...

Fifty percent of selections directed by women.

Telefilm Canada announced on Tuesday (August 18) the 16 filmmaker teams and first feature and narrative web projects selected for 2020-21 Talent To Watch programme.

Telefilm and Talent Fund will invest more than Usd $1663,000 (C$2.2m) in the English- and French-language work. Thirteen of the 16 teams are culturally diverse, with one who self-identifies as gender diverse. Fifty percent of the stories are directed by women.

For the first time, feature film projects will receive Usd $113,389, up from Usd $94,490 in support. Talent Fund is backed by private donations and launched in 2012 and to date has raised...

Festival cancelled three days from scheduled finale.

The Miami Film Festival, which elected to continue with virtual judging after cancelling screenings and events towards the end of its 2020 edition in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, has announced its winners.

Dudley Alexis’ race riots documentary When Liberty Burns won the $30,000 Knight Made in Mia Feature Film Award, Jayro Bustamante’s Mexico-Guatemala horror thriller La Llorona (pictured) received the $40,000 Knight Marimbas Award, and Aeden O’Connor Agurcia’s 90 Minutes about the Honduran national obsession with football won the Toyota Narrative Feature Film Audience Award.

The newly created Toyota Documentary Feature Film...

Everyone wants to be loved. Many people also want attention and love from strangers. In our social media age that gives us access to strangers around the world, the allure of the like, the retweet, the reply, can be irresistable. The validation that can with strangers' support can be intoxicating; so can their money. In White Lie, writing-directing team Yonah Lewis and Cavin Thomas bring a story of a young woman whose entrancement with that fame and love has caused her to do dangerous and illegal things, which are quickly coming to a head with a vengeance. Katie (Kacey Rohl) is a university student in Hamilton, Ontario; she studies dance, has a wonderful girlfriend in Jennifer, and to all the world, she presents herself as...

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If a certain trend has emerged within the past half-decade of indie films, it’s the cinema of the grifter; very small-scale titles like Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard or Adrian Murray’s Withdrawn charting millennial malaise manifesting into economic malpractice. These films seem like a true meeting of form and content, as the desperate measures that come from living in a late-capitalist hellhole and the emaciated filmic settings of many low budgets perfectly complement each other. And White Lie, a film predominantly taking place in septic waiting rooms and halls with life-changing decisions depending on convenience store Atm machines, convincingly depicts a world in which one would take drastic measures. If anything, it’s a film deserving of serious praise for capturing how truly depressing Ontario can be in the wintertime–Hamilton’s landscapes haven’t been so vividly rendered since Olivier Assayas’ Clean.

Occupying this dead setting is Katie (Kacey Rohl...

Directors Lulu Wang (“The Farewell”) and Patricia Rozema (“I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing”) and producer Cassian Elwes will serve as mentors at the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2019 Tiff Filmmaker Lab, Tiff organizers announced on Wednesday.

The festival also unveiled its lineup of Canadian films, which will include new work directed by Atom Egoyan, Louise Archambault, Ellen Page and Amy Jo Johnson, and starring Felicity Huffman, Imogen Poots and David Cronenberg, among others. And it announced participants in industry programs and the Canadian honorees in its annual Tiff Rising Stars showcase.

The films were spread across eight different sections of the Toronto Film Festival, some of which have yet to announce their non-Canadian programming.

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The Canadian galas, all previously announced, are the opening-night documentary “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” Semi...

Martin Donovan, Kacey Rohl and Amber Anderson have been set to star in Baldy, an indie drama written and directed by Toronto-based Amy George and The Oxbow Incident duo Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis. The movie, from Film Forge Productions and Lisa Pictures in association with Babe Nation Films, is now shooting in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario.

The plot centers on a popular yet desperate university dance major (Rohl) who is faking cancer. Through her counterfeit fundraising, she has become a campus celebrity and found the community she always dreamed of: a close-knit group of friends and a passionate relationship with her girlfriend (Anderson). After applying for an academic scholarship, she learns she has one week to present medical records proving she has cancer or else she won’t receive the funding. Over the course of five days, she struggles to keep her lie hidden in order to defraud friends,...

Martin Donovan ("Weeds," "Boss"), Kacey Rohl and Amber Anderson are set to star in Baldy, a drama about a fake cancer patient from writer/directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis.

The Canadian indie sees "Hannibal" star Rohl play a desperate university dance major who is faking cancer to fundraise. After applying for an academic bursary, she learns she has one week to present medical records proving she has cancer, which produces five suspenseful days to keep the fraud hidden from friends, her girlfriend (Anderson) and strangers.

Martin Donovan (Weeds, Boss), Kacey Rohl and Amber Anderson are set to star in Baldy, a drama about a fake cancer patient from writer/directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis.

The Canadian indie sees Hannibal star Rohl play a desperate university dance major who is faking cancer to fundraise. After applying for an academic bursary, she learns she has one week to present medical records proving she has cancer, which produces five suspenseful days to keep the fraud hidden from friends, her girlfriend (Anderson) and strangers.

Connor Jessup has a supporting role. Baldy is shooting in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. Film Forge Productions ...