Even cinephiles could count on two hands the number of documentaries that became bona fide critical and commercial hits effectively sparking wider discussion; one hand if Michael Moore’s...
Not everyone sees beauty in a picture-perfect green lawn sprayed with pesticides or other harmful chemicals. Take Toronto filmmaker Andrew Nisker, known for his environmental docs, Garbage:...
When girls in the developed world experience menstruation, it's common for them to miss school or even drop out — from shame, from pain, from the taboo.
When 12 high school students...
Spike Lee seized his moment on the Academy Awards stage Sunday night (Feb. 24) to mobilize viewers to vote in 2020. “Make the moral choice between love versus hate,” he said after winning...
Canadian-born Hollywood actress Ellen Page used her segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss many important issues from environmental racism towards First Nations in Canada to...
U.S. media giant CBS Corp. announced it will divide up the $20 million earlier promised for women advocacy groups to 18 organizations focused on eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace. The...
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan, a Global Citizen ambassador and anti-poverty activist, will narrate the upcoming climate change documentary, Paris to Pittsburgh, from...
Movie broadcaster and streamer Hollywood Suite through December is matching all donations to the Women in Film & Television - Toronto Foundation dollar-for-dollar, up to $15,000.
Hollywood...
Veteran shock rocker Alice Cooper will be enlisting the support of some fellow vampires to help teens in need.
Specifically, Cooper is bringing out Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry...
A marquee speaking event has raised $77,000 to support the Regent Park-based youth arts charitable organization, UforChange.
Held on November 21 at Toronto's Artscape Daniels Launchpad, the...