April 17th, 2008 at 8:07 pm (Miscellaneous)
John Walker’s documentary drama “Passage” will screen at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto on April 20 and 23. Based on the lives of Dr. John Rae, explorer for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and Sir John Franklin, British Royal Navy officer and leader of an ill-fated 1840s Arctic expedition, the film follows a trail from London to the Orkney Islands to Nunavut, elegantly slipping between past and present, drama and documentary, observational and self-reflexive cinema, to present the forces that made Franklin a hero and banished Rae to the margins of history.
Nigel plays the part of Sir James Graham.
Source: Hot Docs Festival
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April 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am (Nigel Bennett)
Nigel will be one of the panelists in a new prime-time 6-hour TV series called Short Film Face Off, presented by CBC Atlantic and the Atlantic Film Festival Association.
Beginning Wednesday, April 16th at 7 p.m., each show will screen three short films by directors from across Atlantic Canada. After each film is screened, the panelists will talk with the directors about their work and each night one film will be chosen to go on to the semi-finals, where a winner will be chosen by online viewer voting. The final show announcing the winner will air Wednesday, May 21st.
Previous episodes can be viewed here.
Source: Atlantic Film Festival
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