TORONTO – A 2006 Documentary titled “The Bridge” shot 10,000 hours of footage capturing suicides off of the Golden Gate Bridge. After watching this, Italian Author and Director Paolo Genovese became fascinated with what the suicide survivors confessed in interviews. “All of them, in seven seconds, which is how long it takes [from the Golden Gate Bridge] to hit the water, had repented. These seven seconds fascinated me. How can a lifelong decision so stratified or unavoidable or incredible, be overturned in just seven seconds? I wondered about when you hit rock bottom and when there is nothing left to do, what things can lead you to change your mind?”. The questions raised by the controversial documentary became the seed for Genovese’s book “The First Day of My Life” and it’s eventual film adaptation in 2023.
TORONTO – “Librissimi”, the Toronto Italian Book Festival, is coming soon in collaboration with Villa Charities and Comites Toronto: the event, which reaches its sixth edition and will take place from 3 to 5 May at the Columbus Center (901 Lawrence Avenue West, Toronto), will launch this year the Librissimi Lifetime Achievement Award. (more…)
TORONTO – First “house concert” for the Italian-Canadian musician Andrea Botticelli and the cellist of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Keiran Campbell (in the pic above): the event is on Sunday 26 May at 2 pm, in Toronto.
TORONTO – Recentemente ho avuto l’opportunità di discutere del documentario di successo di Netflix “What Jennifer Did” con i suoi produttori, Jeremy Grimaldi e Paul Nguyen…
TORONTO – I recently had the opportunity to discuss the hit Netflix Documentary “What Jennifer Did” with its Producers, Jeremy Grimaldi and Paul Nguyen. The Documentary is about Jennifer Pan, a young Canadian girl from Markham Ontario found guilty in 2014 of conspiring to kill her parents. Jeremy Grimaldi is a Crime Reporter and Award Winning Author who’s been reporting/investigating the case for over a decade. Paul Nguyen is a Filmmaker and Social Activist who’s served as a role model and mentor for at-risk youth in his Toronto community.
