2010 North by Northeast Music & Film Festival and Conference (NXNE), June 14-20

2010 marks the 16th year of the North by Northeast Music & Film Festival and Conference (NXNE), which is the Canadian version of the Austin, Texas festival South By Southwest (SXSW). This year the festival expands to a full week-long event, and will feature around 650 bands performing in over 50 venues. They host a conference for musicians and emerging talent to get to the next level. They will also be introducing a series of presentations called NXNE Interactive, with industry professionals expounding on the latest online methods and tools for available for folks in the music business.

NXNE runs a parallel film festival, featuring films about music. This year's 40 music-themed features, docs, shorts, include gala presentations of Bruce McDonald's This Movie is Broken featuring Broken Social Scene and Rob Stefaniuk's wacky rock-n-roll Vampire comedy Suck. Screenings take place at at various locations, with gala presentations at the Royal Cinema and the Bloor Cinema.

The following is the schedule for the NXNE Film Festival:
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16
   
NFB
1:00 PM     Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
D: Peter Esmonde

2:30 PM     Do It Again
D: Robert Patton-Spruill

4:00 PM     The Gift Of Music
D: Scott Rondeau

5:30 PM     A Gun to the Head
D: Blaine Thurier (in attendance with cast members)

7:30 PM     Carnival
D: Don Letts

8:30 PM     Sounds Like a Revolution, from apathy to activism; from concerts to Congress
D: Summer Preney (in attendance)
Gu Revolution
D: Igor Vrabac and Bruce Palait (in attendance)

THURSDAY, JUNE 17
   
HYATT REGENCY

11:00 AM     The ShibusaShirazu Orchestra Live in Paris

12:00 PM     Jane’s Alahambra
D: Cecilia Pagliarani

1:00 PM     Babalu: La Vida Cantada 
Di Me Que Yo
D: Mateo Gil

3:00 PM     Mono
D: Tom Di Cillo
Morgenrot
D: Jeff Desom

5:00 PM     The NE Showcase

6:00 PM     Johnny Cash’s America
D: Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon

8:00 PM     When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors
D: Tom Di Cillo
   
NFB
1:00 PM     Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love
D: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

3:00 PM     The Blank Generation
D: Ivan Kral (in attendance)
Circa 1977: The Diodes
D: Aldo Erdic (in attendance)

4:30 PM     Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread
D: Raphael Erichsen (in attendance)
Rapresent
D: Ivana Todorovic

6:15 PM     Music Makes a City
D: Owsley Brown III & Jerome Hiler
Morgenrot
D: Jeff Desom

8:15 PM     The Watchmen: All Uncovered
D: Reil Munro
   
ROYAL CINEMA
7:00 PM     This Movie is Broken
D: Bruce McDonald
The Adventures of Spaghetti Cowboy
D: Chris Cunningham
   
AMC YONGE – DUNDAS SQUARE
7:00 PM     Year of the Carnivore
D: Sook-Yin Lee
I WON
D: Ann Marie Fleming

FRIDAY, JUNE 18
   
NFB
12:30 PM     The Magnetic Man
D: Arto Halonen

2:15 PM     Thomas Pynchon: A Journey Into The Mind Of
D: Fosco Dubini

4:00 PM     Evening’s Civil Twilight In Empires of Tin
D: Jem Cohen (in attendance)

6:30 PM     We’re the Weakerthans, We’re From Winnipeg
D: Caelum Vatnsdal

8:00 PM     You Left Me Blue: The Handsome Ned Story
D: Ross Edmunds and Chris Terry
   
BLOOR CINEMA
9:45 PM     Suck
D: Rob Stefaniuk

SATURDAY, JUNE 19
   
TORONTO UNDERGROUND CINEMA
1:00 PM     Tromeo and Juliet
D: Lloyd Kaufman

3:00 PM     X: The Unheard Music
D: W.T. Morgan (in attendance)

5:00 PM     Search and Destroy: Iggy Pop and The Stooges’ Raw Power
D: Morgan Neville
Visual Alan Audio Vega
D: Blick

6:30 PM     Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread
D: Raphael Erichsen (in attendance)
Strummerville
D: Don Letts

9:00 PM     Stones In Exile
D: Stephen Kijak (in attendance)

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