Telefilm Canada and the MoMA partner to present the tenth Canadian Front exhibition

Spotlight on Xavier Dolan in New York

Montreal, March 8, 2013 –Telefilm Canada is proud to announce that it is partnering with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for a 10th consecutive year to present Canadian Front, which this year runs from March 13 to 18, 2013. For this 10th annual edition, Canadian Front offers five films, three of which are debut works, and presents Filmmaker in Focus: Xavier Dolan, which spotlights the director’s three films (J’ai tué ma mère [I Killed My Mother], Les Amours imaginaires [Heartbeats] and Laurence Anyways). As part of this retrospective, Xavier Dolan’s first feature, J’ai tué ma mère, gets a week-long screening. The young filmmaker will also be on hand on March 18 for An Evening with Xavier Dolan, where he will answer questions from audience members.

On March 13, 2013, audiences and industry members will have the opportunity to attend a screening of Molly Maxwell, the debut feature by talented Ontario filmmaker Sara St. Onge.

Among the other Canadian films to be screened during the event are several productions that attracted notice on the festival circuit and during awards season, among them Avant que mon cœur bascule (Sébastien Rose); Blackbird (Jason Buxton), a prize-winner at the Canadian Screen Awards; Krivina (Igor Drljaca), a Canada/Bosnia-Herzegovina co-production; and Le météore (François Delisle), which recently screened at Sundance and Berlin.

For complete information about the Canadian Front programming, please click here.