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The Cavendish Beach Music Festival is bringing some of the biggest country stars to Prince Edward Island this summer and one of its headliners is giving back in a big way. Canadian icon Shania Twain is set to perform at the popular P.E.I. festival, but she's also helping local families in need. Through the Shania Twain Foundation, Twain is donating $25,000 to the West Prince Caring Cupboard – a food bank that's been supporting families in the region for more than 30 years. 'This donation is just out of this world,' said Barb Ramsay-Desroches, president of the board of directors for the West Prince Caring Cupboard. 'We've been in existence since 1992, and we serve a population of about 16,000 residents in West Prince.' In a statement, Twain said: 'True strength in communities comes from looking out for one another. No one should have to go without the food they deserve, and together, we can make sure that doesn't happen.' Festival organizers say the country superstar's generosity reflects the spirit of the event and the community it draws together every summer. 'People were excited to see Shania before… and I think now even more,' said Ben Murphy, CEO of Whitecap Entertainment. 'Anytime an artist gets involved with the community is so amazing and Shania doing it at such a level is even more meaningful.' The Caring Cupboard says the donation will help stock fresh food items they often can't keep on the shelves – including milk, cheese and bread. 'It's going to be a big boost to be able to go shopping and add those extra items in for our families,' said Ramsay-Desroches. 'We are all volunteers, and we love what we do. It really comes from the heart. I believe this donation from Shania Twain is something that's really coming from her heart too. We feel very blessed that she selected our organization.' Thousands of country music fans will flock to Cavendish for the festival, which runs July 10-12.
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Edmonton artwork nominated for top 100 international public art projects
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‘Incredibly ambitious and probably really stupid': R.T. Thorne's sci-fi debut '40 Acres'
Danielle Deadwyler as Hailey Freeman in "40 Acres" is seen in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Rafy, courtesy of Mongrel Media (Mandatory Credit) TORONTO — R.T. Thorne says he could have played it safe with his debut feature. Instead, he swung for the fences, writing an epic sci-fi thriller about generational trauma, cannibalism and humanity's connection with land — all set in what he calls 'a post-apocalyptic world where the stakes are at the absolute highest.' 'For my first film, it was incredibly ambitious and probably really stupid to write something like that,' the Calgary-born writer-director laughs in a recent video call from Toronto. '40 Acres,' out Friday, centres on a Black-Indigenous family in a famine-stricken future where a fungal pandemic has wiped out all animal life on the planet. When a marauding group of cannibals closes in on their farm, ex-military matriarch Hailey Freeman, played by Danielle Deadwyler, clashes with her son Manny, played by Toronto's Kataem O'Connor, over the best way to survive a world in ruins. Deadwyler says she was drawn to the film's historical context — the Freemans are the last descendants of a Black family of farmers who settled in Canada after the U.S. Civil War. 'The connection between the American and Canadian history of folks getting to this northern liberated land, it was very much on my mind,' the Atlanta native says in a recent video call Los Angeles. 'You can talk about the Underground Railroad for sure — there were people escaping who got (to Canada) and established themselves. When we think about Hailey, she is coming from a place where she understands the century-plus-long history of her family on the land that they are fighting for.' Michael Greyeyes, who plays Hailey's partner Galen, considers '40 Acres' an 'Indigenous rights film' because it centres on people fighting to stay on their land. 'If you look at the world in general, colonialism, empire and taking land away from Indigenous populations is an ongoing threat,' says the actor from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, reached by Zoom in Winnipeg. 'Our film actually states that the land belongs to the caretakers and that we resist empire and we resist encroachment.' Thorne says the earliest seeds of the film were planted in something more intimate: a desire to channel his relationship with his mother. 'She ran a strict household. I grew up with somebody who was so concerned and so vital in teaching me how to move in the world and what she felt was important in the world,' he recalls. Thorne got his start directing music videos for artists including Sean Paul and Keshia Chanté before creating the 2020 sci-fi series 'Utopia Falls' and helming the 2022 period drama 'The Porter,' both of which aired on CBC. With '40 Acres,' he set out to explore 'the universal generational conflict that happens in every family: the parents think they know what it is and as the young people grow up, they want freedom.' But as a self-described 'dreamer,' his ambitions quickly grew, envisioning a do-or-die sci-fi future where that family tension could play out on a much larger canvas. Originally conceived seven years ago as a microbudget project through Telefilm's Talent to Watch program, the Sudbury, Ont.-shot film expanded in scale and scope to match Thorne's creative vision. There were some growing pains. Just after the film's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, the union representing crew members on the shoot issued a statement saying they were 'profoundly disappointed' that some crew and vendors had yet to be fully paid for their work on the production. IATSE — which represents behind-the-scenes workers across film, TV and theatre — says all outstanding payments have since been made. At a public event in Toronto last week, '40 Acres' producer Jennifer Holness addressed the situation by saying that just before filming began in fall 2023, a U.S. distributor that promised a minimum guarantee asked for script changes that would have 'damaged the film and our vision.' Holness said the team chose to walk away, leaving the production '$2 million in the hole.' With an initial $8 million budget — including $3.2 million in public funding from Telefilm — Holness said the production became a week-to-week financial struggle. 'Every single week after the third week of production, we were in a situation of, 'How do we get to the end of the week and pay everyone?'' she said. 'We did 12 weeks up there, and we paid our crew every single week on time. We, the producers, had to come together and invest in the film ourselves. It was a journey. It was an incredibly stressful journey.' The film was picked up by U.S. distributor Magnolia earlier this year and heads to screens across North America this week. Thorne says all payment issues have been resolved and commends Holness for 'steadying the ship.' He adds there are many issues that occur during productions that people don't know about. 'You're always almost falling over to get it to the screen. The thing that I will say is that you come together as a community and you try to fix the mistakes and issues that you have and you make sure that people feel taken care of,' he says. 'And then you come out successful at the end when you do it. And the films that don't, you don't hear about them.' Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press
