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Planet in Focus International Film and Video Festival: Toronto in the Moving Image
The 7th annual Planet in Focus International Film and Video Festival starts tonight at the Royal Ontario Museum, 7pm with a screening of Grant McLean’s 1953 short Farewell Oak Street before feature Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox, Sara Lamm’s documentary on the strange Dr. Emmanuel Bronner, a gentleman who (quite absurdly) escaped a psychiatric hospital and began a all-natural all-organic soap company.
The festival continues until Sunday, closing with Conflict Tiger at Innis College, a documentary observing the struggle between man and tigers for their habitat in eastern Siberia.
However, our eyes in particular are caught by the festival’s retrospective of Toronto on film, which includes a rare screening of what some people consider to be the Canadian classic, Don Shebib’s Goin’ Down the Road (it certainly led to one of our favourite SCTV sketches.) Goin’ Down the Road screens on Saturday night, 7pm at Innis College, and the full selection from the film festival’s Spotlight: Toronto in the Moving Image Since the Dawn of Cinema programme can be found here.