Montreal director's new film shows different, beautiful side of Haiti
Joseph Hillel's film 'At All Kosts' looks at the courage and dignity of people living in Haiti. He's hoping to show a different side of the country often characterized by its political unrest and brutality.
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Drag queen and Drag Race host Brooke Lynn Hytes spoke about what she'd most like to ask U.S. President Donald Trump backstage in the press room. "What foundation do you use? Because it is the wrong shade," she said, before addressing his policies targeting transgender people. "Why are you targeting the most marginalized, smallest group of people in the country and making an example out of them when they are not doing anything to hurt anybody; they're just trying to exist?" And as The Apprentice 's producer Daniel Bekerman took to the stage, he also spoke of Trump — the subject of their film, who threatened a lawsuit to remove it from circulation. "Our movie shows how the young Donald Trump amassed wealth and power by finding a dilapidated building and slapping his name on it," he said. "Now he wants to slap his name on this country." "The most powerful person in the world tried to squish us, and they failed. They failed." But all in all, the twelve awards and jokes on offer were more or less safe, smooth sailing for a show that hasn't found itself far from disapproval or drama over the past few years. After a pre-packaged, pre-recorded change of format in 2023 that led to complaints from none other than Eugene Levy, the CSAs returned to a live format in 2024, though one that largely focused on the dire and potentially dismal future of Canadian film and television. There was a new round of complaints this year, centred around the awards show's plan to air exclusively online, eschewing the traditional TV broadcast. But after a last-minute reversal of that decision, things went ahead much the same as any prior, nondescript year. That engineered smoothness resulted in an almost pointed exclusion of reference to the many dark clouds hanging over the Canadian film industry. From proposed Hollywood tariffs, to ongoing feuds between the CRTC and streaming platforms fighting against Canadian content obligations, or the bleak performance of Canadian English-language films in comparison to their American counterparts at the box office, few of the industry's existential issues made their way into a broadcast more concerned with gentle preening. Dimmed starlight Instead, there were cautiously celebratory allusions to Canada's artistic importance, such as Manny Jacinto's Radius award for international impact, and an in-memoriam segment for Donald Sutherland presented by his son, actor Kiefer Sutherland, along with hit-and-miss jokes so typical of such ceremonies. The general tone was set by host Lisa Gilroy in her opening skit. In it, she jokingly compared herself to "comedy legend" Martin Short, versus her own status as "Instagram account-holder, Lisay Gilroy," who was like "a Canadian Nikki Glaser, only less successful." 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And when Run the Burbs ' Andrew Phung won best lead performer in a comedy series, he could barely keep from crying during his acceptance speech. Despite it being his sixth career acting CSA, he struggled through the emotion the award brought out as he barrelled through thank-yous. "Today is our twentieth anniversary," he said as his voice broke and the camera pointed to his wife, Tamara Sharpe. "When I felt like I couldn't do anything, you made me believe that I could do everything. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much."
