FILM: With the announcement last week that NFB Mediatheque’s downtown Toronto cinema is closing, you only have a limited time left to check out some of their great screenings. The long-running Free Favourites at Four series is featuring the film Waterlife today about the fresh water supply on earth. The Globe and Mail called the [...]

This time last year, Kevin McMahon was crazily bustling around, busy with preparations for the premiere of his documentary feature Waterlife—a Great Lakes–centric statement about the environment and the liquid that gives it life—at Hot Docs. One year, hundreds of screenings, and umpteen awards later, including Hot Docs’ Special Jury Prize, he’s settled down (a [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Still from Waterlife, courtesy of the National Film Board. FILM: Waterlife is an award-winning documentary that follows the troubled waters [...]