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Diefenbunker screens Freedom’s Fury March 16th 2010

 

Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum, is screening the hugely successful feature-length documentary Freedom’s Fury, directed by Canadian brother-sister team of Colin Gray and Meagan Reaney. This historical film produced in 2006 in time for the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, had its gala premiere at the National Gallery of Canada in September 2006 - organized by the Canada-Hungary Educational Foundation as one of its major educational activities in commemoration of the Hungarian refugee movement to Canada in 1956-57. Read more...

 

March 5th 2010

 

 

Hungarian film at the EU Film Festival, Ottawa, Vancouver

 

As in previous years, the Canadian Film Institute in cooperation with the Embassy of Hungary has included a recent Hungarian film in the annual EU Film Festival. The Ottawa screening of Overnight takes place on December 2nd, but the film is also being screened in Vancouver a few days later. For more information about the film, click here. To find out more about the Festival Program and the Canadian Film Institute, see the festival's home page.

 

November 30th 2009

 

Premiere of Susan Papp’s Outcasts on OMNI 1, Nov 15th 2009

 

Susan Papp’s successful Outcasts - A Love Story, published by Dundurn Press in May 2009 has been turned into a documentary film, produced and directed by Susan with the screen version written by Allen Abel. The film will be premiered on OMNI 1 on November 15th at 9pm. For more information about this project, see the media backgrounder HERE and for more information on the book, see our web page.

 

November 3rd, 2009

 

Film Festival of Canadian films in Hungary

 

As part of the Canadian-Hungarian artists’ exhibition in Hungary in the summer of 2009, a number of films made by Canadian artists of Hungarian origin are being shown in Hungary from July 3-13.

 

To see the Program, which was put together by Canadian film-maker, Tamas Wormser, click here.

 

For more information click here.

 

July 3rd, 2009

 

 

Vancouver Première screening of Freedom's Fury
and Touched by Water

 

Pacific Cinémathèque and the New Hungarian Voice are presenting Freedom's Fury
and Touched by Water

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Pacific Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street, Suite 200 Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2L7 Canada

 

See both films for the Single Bill Ticket Price: $9.50 Adults, $8 Students/Seniors. Membership in Pacific Cinémathèque or the Hungarian Canadian Cultural Alliance will be accepted for this event.

 

For more information about the films click here.

Jan.9, 2009

 

 

Hungarian documentary on forgotten hero screened in Ottawa

 

A Hungarian documentary film entitled Captain Ocskay, the Forgotten Hero will be screened on November 6, 2008, at the Ottawa Public Library. This powerful documentary film tells the story of a Hungarian army officer whose heroic deeds have all but been forgotten. Captain László Ocskay went to extraordinary lengths to save the lives of hundreds of Jews in Budapest. Read more...

 

Click on the image for better viewing of the poster.

 

Nov. 6, 2008

 

 

Interview with Albert Kish

 

Read an interview with Albert Kish conducted by  Lorraine Weideman of the New Hungarian Voice. Kish is a Canadian film maker, photographer and former NFB director who came to Canada in 1957. This interview appeared in the Summer 2006 issue of the NHV. To read the interview click on the image.

 

 

 

 

 

Profile of Filmmaker Tamás Wormser

 

Marguerite Marlin

 

Tamás Wormser, who grew up in Budapest and now lives in Montréal, has established himself as a presence on the Canadian and International film scene in the years following his immigration to Canada from Hungary in 1986. His films have garnered many international awards and recognition, including a nomination for Best Documentary at the 2006 Montreal World Film Festival, and have been described in the press as “original, beautiful, low-key” (The Globe and Mail) with Wormser himself described as having “a way of showing us the beauty beyond what is ostensibly ordinary” (Montreal Mirror). Read on...

 

 

 

 

CBC Honours the Hungarian 1956 Revolution with the film "The Fifty-sixers"

 

On October 25th and November 4th 2006, CBC TV screened a specially commissioned documentary on 1956 and the stories of some of the Hungarian refugees who came to Canada. To find out about their stories click here...

 

Canadian Première of Freedom's Fury

 

The Canada-Hungary Educational Foundation and Water Polo Canada jointly organized a gala premiere of the historical documentary Freedom’s Fury. The event took place at the National Gallery of Canada on September 29th, 2006. Some four hundred people enjoyed the evening including many young water polo players, as well as members of the local Hungarian community. Read more and see video clip .

 

 

 

 

 

Watch this space for information about the Canadian film industry and
the contributions of Hungarian Canadians.

 

 

In the meantime, see the images of many film-makers, film and TV directors and producers who are portrayed in the NEW LIVES exhibit here and see a never before published photo of longtime NFB director, Albert Kish below.

 

A photo of Albert Kish around 1970 in one of Montreal's Hungarian Cafes,
the Rosemary. Albert Kish is on the left and George Pandi on the right.

 

 

 

 

Come back to this page to read a review of White Palms/Fehér Tenyér, (2006) a film by Szabolcs Hajdu about Zoltan "Uli" Hajdu, Hungarian gymnast and one of Kyle Shewfelt’s coaches. Kyle, Canadian Olympic Champion in 2004 at the Games, plays himself in this semi-biographical movie.

 

 

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