“It looked a lot like a reality show. Last month, [Toronto’s] Soulpepper Theatre Company held the ultimate audition… Unlike most drama training programs (such as the National Theatre School, George Brown College, and so on) in which inexperienced students pay tuition in exchange for training and connections to the ‘real world,’ Soulpepper Academy is the real world, and its students working artists. As such, it reverses the financial equation. It will pay its students for their time. Each will receive an annual income of $30,000.”
Tag: 01.14.06
Montreal’s FilmFest Glut
The New Montreal FilmFest lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in its first run last summer, and with two other major film festivals ongoing in the city, a merger with the smaller Festival du nouveau cinéma has been rumored for months. But with a self-imposed deadline for the New Fest to retain its primary sponsorship looming, there has been no substantive progress in merger talks, and Festival du nouveau cinéma appears to have little interest in rushing towards a partnership merely to rescue a less successful rival.