If you have lived in a metropolitan area all your life, you may not have known that in some parts of the world, one can see little points of light in the night sky. These are called stars. This Friday, you will be able to see stars in Toronto! Those crazy kids at Newmindspace are putting together a twinkly, glowing installation of LED's and helium to create an artificial starscape, along with several other......

A busy day for Torontoist yesterday, though no parties; though the Star! TV Shmooze was taking place. We didn’t hear any gossip about it, but it did rain. So we imagine the gossip would be something like… Famous celebrities got a bit wet. Torontoist instead felt the hot tickets of the night were the screening of Guy Maddin’s Brand Upon the Brain, which featured members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, foley artists, a narrator and......

Well, with day one done and dusted, this morning perhaps many people will still be sleeping off the opening night party, but for others (not least the staff and volunteers) it been another early morning to get the festival up and running. This is the first full day of the festival and as such it’s heavy with films to join the rush queue for. Let’s see what we’d give that honor to. Visions 11:15am –......

Hot Docs is very pleasant, but oh man! They really need to try and get more screenings for their special presentations. Waiting in the rush queue for The World According to Sesame Street for hours was exciting, I’ll admit, but there were WAY more people than were ever going to get in waiting in the sun. And people still hate the Escalade. Currently we’re thinking that our favorite so far was An Unreasonable Man, a......

Resfest is rolling it into town this weekend with a packed slate of videos, animation, shorts, digital experiments and guest lecturers. They'll be premiering Just for Kicks, a doc about footwear fetishism, and Ginga, Fernando Meireilles' doc about Brazilian footballers. And on Saturday, they'll present Fear and Anxiety: An Evening with Charlie White, a talk by the acclaimed artist at 8pm. On that same night Resfest also screens Cinema Electronica at 10pm, a mixed......

Writer/director Kevin Smith will be in Toronto this week for the filming his new movie, An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder. Smith, who is best known for such films as Clerks and more recently Jersey Girl, will be filmed at an audience Q&A session at Toronto’s Ryerson University this Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004. The straight-to-DVD release will feature the weighty filmmaker discussing his upcoming appearance on Degrassi High and possibly telling a new......