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7 unusual facts about Atom Egoyan


Dear Sandra

Dear Sandra is an artist book created by Atom Egoyan, inspired by and dedicated to the Luchino Visconti film, Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa.

Erik Pevernagie

This gave him the opportunity to meet interesting characters, like Claude Lelouche, Atom Egoyan, Roy Lichtenstein, Hugo Claus etc.

Erin Cressida Wilson

The film had enjoyed commercial success and became director Atom Egoyan's biggest moneymaker ever.

Hindawi affair

Simon, one of the main characters in Atom Egoyan's 2008 film Adoration, claims that his father planted a bomb in his pregnant wife's luggage before she flew to Israel.

Hover Chamber Choir

The soundtrack to Ararat (movie) by Atom Egoyan and the soundtrack for the restoration of Armenian first silent film "Namus" also have contributions from the Hover.

The Newspaper

Film director Atom Egoyan, novelists Rohinton Mistry and Ray Robertson, and television public affairs host Steve Paikin all worked for The Newspaper as students while attending the University of Toronto.

Toronto ravine system

Ravines play an important background role in Atom Egoyan's film Chloe where the main characters live in a house atop the Cedarvale ravine.


7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival

Among the honorable guests of the festival were film legend Claudia Cardinale, one of the most well regarded stars of Italian and French cinema, Atom Egoyan, Semih Kaplanoglu, Claire Denis, Armen Medvedev, Rob Nilsson and Stanislav Govorukhin.

Amy-Joyce Hastings

In 1998 she was shortlisted for the title role in a film -adapted from another William Trevor novel- Felicia's Journey, directed by Atom Egoyan.

National cinema

MacKenzie argues that Canadian cinema has a "...self-conscious concern with the incorporation of cinematic and televisual images", and as examples, he cites films such as David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing (1987), Robert Lepage's Le Confessional (1995) and Srinivas Krishna's Masala (1991).

Ric's Art Boat

Atom Egoyan, Claude Lelouche, Benoit Lamy, Jan Verheyen), visual artists (ex. Luc Tuymans, Nicolas Vial, illustrator of French Newspaper Le Monde), singers (ex.Axelle Red, the Kooks, Tom Barman, Karen Cheryl), authors (Hugo Claus).

Salah Bachir

He has produced numerous charity events featuring big-name celebrities, including gala fundraisers in support of The 519 featuring Sandra Bernhard, Eartha Kitt, Andrea Martin and Joan Rivers, and The Premiere Video Awards, which raised money for Variety Club, with such special honourees as Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Ginger Rogers and Christopher Plummer in attendance.

São Paulo International Film Festival

The list of international filmmakers (including Brazilian directors) consisted of Wolfgang Becker, Maria de Medeiros, Hanna Elias, Amos Gitai, Mika Kaurismäki, Jim McBride, Phillip Noyce, Ming-liang Tsai, Andrea Vecchiato, Caetano Veloso, Yoshishige Yoshida, Theo Angelopoulos, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Marcho Bechis, Laís Bodanzky, Beto Brant, Manoel de Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, Jerzy Stuhr, and Wim Wenders.

The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University

Through Praxis, the School developed a nationally recognized program of professional training for screenwriters, and public events with Canadian and international filmmakers like Atom Egoyan, Sally Potter, Costa-Gavras, Mike Leigh, and Walter Murch.


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