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Click images to enlarge... The National Film Board of Canada has partnered with "Luminato", Toronto’s Festival of Arts and Creativity for the third consecutive year. From June 6-13, the NFB Mediatheque presents free screenings/workshops as part of 'Luminato Reel', a film program inspired by the 2009 "Luminato" lineup. Screenings include "Roadsworth: Crossing the Line", detailing a Montreal stencil artist’s clandestine campaign to make his mark on the city streets. As he is prosecuted at home and celebrated abroad, Roadsworth struggles to defend his work, define himself as an artist and address difficult questions about art and freedom of expression; "Breaking a Leg", from director Robert Lepage. In the spring of 1989, LePage joined forces with a new Montreal theatre company, 'Theatre 1774', to direct its first production. This doc follows the project from its first workshop to opening night; "Family Program" includes a

Click images to enlarge... Friday, May 29, Toronto's Yorkville-based Cumberland Cinemas will host the inaugural edition of "TFCA Presents", a new series presented in partnership with the Toronto Film Critics Association. TFCA President Brian D. Johnson, film critic for Maclean’s magazine and Eye Weekly newspaper critic Adam Nayman will present/discuss director Jim Jarmusch’s newest feature "The Limits of Control", entering its second week of release. The critics will introduce the film, followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. The new film screening series, expected to run once a month, was devised to afford TFCA members a new platform to discuss local releases, "...giving audiences the chance to put faces to the bylines of film critics they read every week and to add their own voices to the fray..." The Cumberland's commitment to screening the best of international and art-house cinema made it a natural partner for the TFCA, wh