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Ottawa Citizen
29-05-2025
- Sport
- Ottawa Citizen
Davis: Documentary film about Swift Current Broncos bus crash invokes painful memories
There's a scene in the documentary film 'Sideways' where the Swift Current Broncos' soon-to-be disgraced head coach Graham James is being interviewed shortly after the WHL team's 1986 bus crash, which killed four players and scarred the survivors. Article content It's jarring to hear James speak about quickly and heartlessly moving the team forward, past the tragedy and back onto the ice, because everyone now knows the coach was a predator who was sent to prison for sexually assaulting several of his players. James didn't want anyone — particularly psychologists — to comfort his players and discover the hidden secrets that made worse the trauma they suffered from losing teammates Scott Kruger, Trent Kresse, Brent Ruff and Chris Mantyka. Article content Article content Article content Wilkie is the president of I Got Mind, a company that according to its website 'provides valuable educational programming that enhances wellness, strengthens cultures, and increases performance for any team or individual.' Working with Trilight Entertainment, initially there were plans to make a movie about the Broncos before postponing that notion to produce the documentary, develop a podcast and establish a '4 The Boys Scholarship.' Article content Wilkie has been working in the mental health field for 20 years — strengthened on his path by his marriage to Michaelynn and their two children — while working with athletes, coaches, parents, schools and businesses. Wilkie and Soberlak also visited with families following the Humboldt Broncos fatal bus crash in 2018. Article content Article content 'When we go through life there are things we don't like and we try to leave them in the past,' said Wilkie. 'This is everything, front and centre. That's the hard part for a lot of people. They can't be vulnerable to share their story. Article content Article content 'It is uncomfortable to share your story. But there's power in it.' Article content Including Wednesday's showing at the Saskatchewan Science Centre in Regina, there have been sneak previews to help raise money for the projects. According to Andrea Hoffman, one of the executive producers, Sideways will officially premiere Sept. 8 at the Hockey Hall of Fame, with hopes it will be accepted into the Toronto International Film Festival. Article content 'I still can't watch it too much because it's so emotional, knowing the impact it's going to have on people who watch it,' said Wilkie. 'It's a story of trauma and healing for young men and a community who experienced something horrific.
Calgary Herald
29-05-2025
- Sport
- Calgary Herald
Davis: Documentary film about Swift Current Broncos bus crash invokes painful memories
There's a scene in the documentary film 'Sideways' where the Swift Current Broncos' soon-to-be disgraced head coach Graham James is being interviewed shortly after the WHL team's 1986 bus crash, which killed four players and scarred the survivors. Article content It's jarring to hear James speak about quickly and heartlessly moving the team forward, past the tragedy and back onto the ice, because everyone now knows the coach was a predator who was sent to prison for sexually assaulting several of his players. James didn't want anyone — particularly psychologists — to comfort his players and discover the hidden secrets that made worse the trauma they suffered from losing teammates Scott Kruger, Trent Kresse, Brent Ruff and Chris Mantyka. Article content Article content Article content Wilkie is the president of I Got Mind, a company that according to its website 'provides valuable educational programming that enhances wellness, strengthens cultures, and increases performance for any team or individual.' Working with Trilight Entertainment, initially there were plans to make a movie about the Broncos before postponing that notion to produce the documentary, develop a podcast and establish a '4 The Boys Scholarship.' Article content Wilkie has been working in the mental health field for 20 years — strengthened on his path by his marriage to Michaelynn and their two children — while working with athletes, coaches, parents, schools and businesses. Wilkie and Soberlak also visited with families following the Humboldt Broncos fatal bus crash in 2018. Article content Article content 'When we go through life there are things we don't like and we try to leave them in the past,' said Wilkie. 'This is everything, front and centre. That's the hard part for a lot of people. They can't be vulnerable to share their story. Article content Article content 'It is uncomfortable to share your story. But there's power in it.' Article content Including Wednesday's showing at the Saskatchewan Science Centre in Regina, there have been sneak previews to help raise money for the projects. According to Andrea Hoffman, one of the executive producers, Sideways will officially premiere Sept. 8 at the Hockey Hall of Fame, with hopes it will be accepted into the Toronto International Film Festival. Article content 'I still can't watch it too much because it's so emotional, knowing the impact it's going to have on people who watch it,' said Wilkie. 'It's a story of trauma and healing for young men and a community who experienced something horrific.
Business Recorder
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Recorder
US director Alexander Payne to head Venice Film Festival jury
ROME: US director Alexander Payne will head the main competition jury at this year's Venice Film Festival, the organisers said on Monday. Payne's films, including the comedies 'The Holdovers', 'Sideways' and 'The Descendants', have been nominated for a total 24 Oscars, including four times for Best Picture and three times for Best Director. He has won twice for Best Adapted Screenplay. 'It's an enormous honour and joy to serve on the jury at Venice. Although I share a filmmaker's ambivalence about comparing films against one another, I revere the Venice Film Festival's nearly 100-year history of loudly celebrating film as an art form,' Payne said in a statement. Saudi's Jeddah old town regains glory as the Grand Prix lures tourists The 82nd Venice Film Festival, held on the lagoon city's Lido island, will run from August 27 to September 6. The movies in competition will be announced in July. Payne's 2017 comedy 'Downsizing' opened the festival in 2017.
Los Angeles Times
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Oscars flashback: Raising a glass to ‘Sideways'
By definition, the Academy Award for adapted screenplay will go to work previously created in another form. But at the 77th Oscars, held on Feb. 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, the source material for the five nominees was particularly wide-ranging: a novel ('Sideways'); a short-story collection ('Million Dollar Baby'); a memoir and a biography ('The Motorcycle Diaries'); a play ('Finding Neverland'); and characters created for a 9-year-old prequel film ('Before Sunset'). A certain amount of less adept adaptation went into the introduction of the nominees in the category too. Adam Sandler strode onstage to read the contenders list, with Catherine Zeta-Jones being announced as planned to help him along. But no Zeta-Jones was on hand, intentionally. That allowed host Chris Rock to join his fellow 'Saturday Night Live' alum and pretend to be Zeta-Jones — the object of Sandler's scripted leering. But at last, it was time for Sandler — once Rock left the stage — to read out the nominees, handing the award to first-time winners Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for Payne's 'Sideways,' a film about two friends going on a bender in the Santa Ynez Valley ahead of one of them tying the knot. As Payne and Taylor noted in their acceptance speech, the win came after 15 years of writing together, scripting such films as 'About Schmidt' and 'Citizen Ruth.' Clearly, they knew each other well enough to finish one another's sentences, as they did in their shared time onstage. After noting together that they've had a great pair of agents, Taylor added, 'And more recently, a great pair of wives: The stunning and talented Tamara Jenkins…' '[And the] equally stunning and talented Sandra Oh,' added Payne, who was married to the 'Sideways' actor from 2003-06; Taylor has been married to director-actress Jenkins since 2002. 'My mother taught me to write,' Taylor added, getting a bit choked up, 'and she died before she could see any of this. So this is for you, Mom.' Taylor and Payne were also nominated together in 2000 for adapting 'Election' and for producing 'The Descendants' (with Jim Burke) in 2012. Payne would win again in 2012 for adapting 'The Descendants' with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash; Taylor has no other wins. The winners of 'Sideways' weren't the only writing collective nominated; in an unusual move, writer-director Richard Linklater and co-writer Kim Krizan included stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in their credit list for 'Before Sunset,' a sequel to Linklater's 1995 film (also co-written with Krizan and starring Delpy and Hawke), 'Before Sunrise.' But it also was understandable: Both films were essentially two-handers. In 2013, he'd give them credit again for the final film in the 'Before' trilogy, 'Before Midnight,' for which all three would be nominated again. (Krizan was then out of the picture.) This was Linklater's first Oscar nomination of an eventual six; Delpy's first nomination in any category of an eventual two; and Hawke's first writing nomination of an eventual two, though he also has two acting nominations. Meanwhile, Paul Haggis earned his first nomination of five total for 'Million Dollar Baby' (he'd go on to win two Oscars for 'Crash' the following year, for directing and best picture, the latter of which he shared with Cathy Schulman). His most recent nomination, from 2007, is for the original screenplay (with Iris Yamashita) of 'Letters From Iwo Jima.' Both 'Jima' and 'Baby' were directed by Clint Eastwood. And finally, David Magee earned his first of two nominations for 'Finding Neverland,' a look at part of the life of 'Peter Pan' author J.M. Barrie; and José Rivera earned his first and so far only nomination for 'The Motorcycle Diaries,' about the life of Che Guevara.
