IO, ISA WORLD CONNECTIONS: FOCUS ON JENNIFER BAICHWAL AT HOT DOCS FEST IN TORONTO

Toronto's Hot Docs Festival pays tribute to the work of Jennifer Baichwal, director of the beautiful Manufactured Landscapes, which as national premiere at IO, ISABELLA IFW 2007 stirred the admiration of Italian audiences. The Canadian director enters the crew of the many excellent Canadian non-fiction filmmakers (Mark Achbar, Peter Winthonick, etc.) that in recent years brought us wonderful pieces of work. With each new film Baichwal has expanded her considerable skills as a filmmaker, with Manufactured Landscapes (2006) widely considered among the finest international documentaries of 2007.

Focus On Jennifer Baichwal opens Saturday, April 19 at 11:00 AM with THE TRUE MEANING OF PICTURES: SHELBY LEE ADAMS' APPALACHIA at the SCENE Screening Room at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto.

Hot Docs is on from April 17 to 27.

Manufactured Landscapes - the trailer

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IO, ISA meets the world: future appointments

The most intensive stage of world wide Festivals' life is just about to start, as customary Io, Isabella will be present at the hottest dates of the season. Hence, after Venice, the Nederlands Film Festival, the Festa del Cinema di Roma, the London Film Festival, IDFA, the Festival Sottodiciotto we are fully equipped to take by storm the following festivals:

Future Film Festival – Bologna, 15-20 January
International Film Festival Rotterdam – Rotterdam, 23 January-3 February
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – Clermont-Ferrand, 1-9 February
Berlinale – Berlin, 7-17 February

If any of our readers might be in the mood to meet us in one or more of the aboves, do not hesitate to leave a comment on this blog so that we can get in touch to partake screenings, comments and warm coffees :-)

Else, for all the "movies' forecasts", like skilled gold-miners as we are, we'll post real time the most exciting results of our tireless researches. Stay tuned.

So long!

ioisa crew

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