Jason Beaudry and Festival Program Director

full program: We had a lot of interest this year from producers, festival program director Jason Beaudry said after Wednesday launch of the full program of 208 films and 100 screenings, according to The Chronicle Herald. Festival highlights We’ve made a big effort to raise the prominence and profile of Canadian filmmaking, and that been recognized on an international scale. In both cases, the movie companies reached out to a festival that used to have to lobby hard for out-of-province films. Gross, whose last film was Passchendaele, is the writer, director and star of Hyena Road, a film about a sniper, an intelligence officer and a legendary mujahedeen warrior in the murky world of modern warfare in Afghanistan. Other top Canadian films on the program are Into the Forest, written and directed by Patricia Rozema, who is coming, and starring Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page, whose attendance is uncertain; Philippe Falardeau My Internship in Canada; Guy Maddin The Forbidden Room; and Atom Egoyan Remember, starring Christopher Plummer. Mehta latest film is about Indo-Canadian, attention-loving gangsters trying to take over the drugs and arms trades in Vancouver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.