{"id":1242,"date":"2006-10-13T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T04:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:26:40","slug":"spotlight-toronto-planet-in-focus-film-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/10\/13\/spotlight-toronto-planet-in-focus-film-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight Toronto: Planet in Focus Film Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/welcome\">Planet in Focus International Environmental Film and Video Festival<\/a> will be taking place November 1 to November 5.  Planet in Focus has just announced this year&#8217;s line-up of &#8220;documentaries, animation, dramatic features, shorts, and experimental works that celebrate, question, and establish varied ways of viewing the state of our world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/files\/poster.jpg\" \/>The spotlight theme of this year&#8217;s festival is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Toronto in the Moving Image from the Dawn of Cinema to the Present\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and it looks like there will be a diverse line-up of films exploring Toronto&#8217;s politics, history, and mythologies.   This Toronto contingent includes: <em>Farewell Oak Street<\/em>, a hopeful 1950s documentary on Regent Park; <em>Montrose Avenue<\/em>, an animated tribute to downtown Toronto; <em>Dream Tower<\/em>, about Rochedale College; <em>Hogtown: The Politics of Policing<\/em>; and <em>A Whale of a Tale<\/em>, a doc about the miraculous discovery of a whale bone by a TTC subway construction crew in the 1980s. Plenty of others can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetinfocus.org\/taxonomy\/term\/45\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th annual Planet in Focus International Environmental Film and Video Festival will be taking place November 1 to November 5. Planet in Focus has just announced this year&#8217;s line-up of &#8220;documentaries, animation, dramatic features, shorts, and experimental works that celebrate, question, and establish varied ways of viewing the state of our world&#8221;. 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