Accession 2015.010 - 2015 acquisition

Identity area

Reference code

CA ON00349 2015.010

Title

2015 acquisition

Date(s)

  • 1987-2015 (Creation)

Level of description

Accession

Extent and medium

6.4 linear metres textual material

175 posters
8 posters mounted on board

1 HDCam cassette
5 BetacamSP cassette
8 VHS cassette
7 CD-Rs
2 CDs
5 DVDs
6 DVD-Rs

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Virginia Kelly is the founder of VK & Associates, a Toronto-based public-relations firm that specializes in film and television events. The company was founded in 1989. Over the years the company has established itself as one of the country’s leading public relations firm. The company has easily transitioned from the late days of print-based promotion, to the now digital and internet publicity. Many successful and well recognized film festivals have worked with VK & Associates, including Toronto’s Hot Docs.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Donated to the archive by Virginia Kelley.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

This fonds, which documents the activities of the Toronto-based promoter, is divided into ten series. These are:
Series 01: Film Festivals
Series 02: Specific Film Files
Series 03: Magazines
Series 04: Business Files
Series 05: Award Shows
Series 06: Promotional Materials
Series 07: Directories
Series 08: Video
Series 09: Photographs
Series 10: Graphic Material’.

The first series, Film Festivals, consists of press clippings, promotional materials, program books, and schedules from various film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Hot Docs, ImagineNative, and Reel Asian.

This fonds includes graphic and textual material relating to a number of productions, including:

  • Grey Owl (1999)
  • Harrison’s Flowers (2000)
  • Sound of Music Sing-along (2000)
  • The Fourth Angel (2001)
  • The Hole (2001)
  • Lost and Delirious (2001)
  • The Tunnel (2001)
  • 28 Days Later (2002)
  • Antwone Fisher (2002)
  • The Banger Sisters (2002)
  • Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
  • Brown Sugar (2002)
  • The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
  • The Good Girl (2002)
  • In America (2002)
  • One Hour Photo (2002)
  • Punch (2002)
  • Push (2002)
  • Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
  • Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
  • The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)
  • Le Divorce (2003)
  • Dreamers (2003)
  • Lucía, Lucía (2003)
  • Nathalie (2003)
  • The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003)
  • Swimming Pool (2003)
  • Thirteen (2003)
  • 5 x 2 (2004)
  • The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
  • The Clearing (2004)
  • Club Dread (2004)
  • Continuous Journey (2004)
  • Don’t Move (2004)
  • Garden State (2004)
  • I Heart Huckabees (2004)
  • Kinsey (2004)
  • Moolaadé (2004)
  • Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
  • La Peau Blanche (White Skin) (2004)
  • Turtles Can Fly (2004)
  • Boys of Baraka (2005)
  • Cowboy Del Amor (2005)
  • Down in the Valley (2005)
  • Joyeaux Noel (2005)
  • The King (2005)
  • Liberia: An Uncivil War (2005)
  • Lie With Me (2005)
  • Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)
  • Murderball (2005)
  • New York Doll (2005)
  • Strangers With Candy (2005)
  • These Girls (2005)
  • Whole New Thing (2005)
  • After the Wedding (2006)
  • Azur et Asmar (2006)
  • The Bridge (2006)
  • The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)
  • Czech Dream (2006)
  • Dallaire (2006)
  • Infamous (2006)
  • Kenny (2006)
  • Penelope (2006)
  • Refugee All Stars (2006)
  • Shameless (2006)
  • Shortbus (2006)
  • A State of Mind (2006)
  • A Sunday in Kigali (2006)
  • Torn Apart (2006)
  • The White Planet (2006)
  • 100 Films and a Funeral (2007)
  • Caramel (2007)
  • In the Name of the King (2007)
  • Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
  • Family Motel (2007)
  • Funny Games (2007)
  • Honeydripper (2007)
  • In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)
  • Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
  • Jesus Camp (2007)
  • Jonestown (2007)
  • Manda Bala (2007)
  • Mob Stories II (2007)
  • My Brother is an Only Child (2007)
  • No End in Sight (2007)
  • Partition (2007)
  • A Promise to the Dead (2007)
  • P2 (2007)
  • Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
  • Shutka Book of Records (2007)
  • Sideways (2007)
  • Silent Light (2007)
  • Snake Goddess (2007)
  • Street Eats (2007)
  • A Table in Heaven (2007)
  • Up the Yangtze (2007)
  • Alice’s House (2008)
  • All Together Now (2008)
  • Anvil (2008)
  • Autism the Musical (2008)
  • Chris & Don (2008)
  • A Christmas Tale (2008)
  • Eleven Minutes (2008)
  • Encounters at the End of the World (2008)
  • Fly Me to the Moon (2008)
  • For the Bible Tells Me So (2008)
  • Global Metal (2008)
  • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2008)
  • Inside Disaster Haiti (2008)
  • Last Continent (2008)
  • Never Back Down (2008)
  • Order of Myths (2008)
  • Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)
  • Sex Drive (2008)
  • Song Sung Blue (2008)
  • Splice (2008)
  • Stuck (2008)
  • Sukiyaki (2008)
  • Summit (2008)
  • Tell No One (2008)
  • The Tiger’s Tale (2008)
  • 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (2008)
  • Triage (2008)
  • Twilight (2008)
  • Voices Forward (2008)
  • Young@Heart (2008)
  • Astro Boy (2009)
  • Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
  • Bitch Slap (2009)
  • Book of Negroes (2009)
  • Clubland (2009)
  • Collapse (2009)
  • Delta (2009)
  • Departures (2009)
  • La Donation (2009)
  • Empty Nest (2009)
  • Enlighten Up! (2009)
  • Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2009)
  • Guest of Cindy Sherman (2009)
  • Knowing (2009)
  • Know Your Mushrooms (2009)
  • Last Train Home (2009)
  • Leaves of Grass (2009)
  • LennonYC (2009)
  • Men Who Swim (2009)
  • Mouth of the Wolf (2009)
  • October Country (2009)
  • Police, Adjective (2009)
  • The Pool (2009)
  • Prom Night in Mississippi (2009)
  • Recipe for Disaster (2009)
  • Rhino (2009)
  • Rocksteady (2009)
  • Rough Aunties (2009)
  • The September Issue (2009)
  • A Shine of Rainbows (2009)
  • Solitary Man (2009)
  • Taqwacore (2009)
  • Three Blind Mice (2009)
  • Tibet in Song (2009)
  • Tiger Spirit (2009)
  • Toxic Baby (2009)
  • Twilight New Moon (2009)
  • Unmistaken Child (2009)
  • Vincere (2009)
  • Wild Grass (2009)
  • Winnegbago Man (2009)
  • Captain Abu Raed (2010)
  • Company Men (2010)
  • La Danse (2010)
  • Garbage Dreams (2010)
  • The Horse Boy (2010)
  • Hugh Hefner (2010)
  • The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle (2010)
  • The Infidel (2010)
  • I Wish I Knew (2010)
  • Marwencol (2010)
  • Mid-August Lunch (2010)
  • Passenger Side (2010)
  • Pax Americana (2010)
  • Pet Pharm (2010)
  • RAKASIA Vacation (2010)
  • The Real MASH (2010)
  • RUSH (2010)
  • Small Town Murder Songs (2010)
  • Sons of Perdition (2010)
  • Sounds like a Revolution (2010)
  • Sweetgrass (2010)
  • A Town Times Panic (2010)
  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
  • Wake of the Flood (2010)
  • Water on the Table (2010)
  • Winnegbago Man (2010)
  • The Year of the Flood (2010)
  • You Don’t Like the Truth (2010)
  • Zooey + Adam (2010)
  • The Arbor (2011)
  • Attenberg (2011)
  • Disco Mastermind (2011)
  • Essential Killing (2011)
  • The Odds (2011)
  • Pearl Jam 20 (2011)
  • Tipping Point: The End of Oil (2011)
  • Topp Twins (2011)
  • Unauthorized (2011)
  • Whirligig (2011)
  • China Heavyweight (2012)
  • The Guantanamo Trap (2012)
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012)
  • The Perfect Runner (2012)
  • Sound it Out (2012)
  • Under African Skies (2012)
  • West-Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson (2012)

    This fonds includes audiovisual material relating to a number of productions, including:

  • Super 8 Stories (2001)
  • Off the Record (2003)
  • Bhopal: The Search for Justice (2004)
  • The Newsroom (2004)
  • Just Buried (2008)
  • Taxi to the Darkside (2008)
  • Twilight (2008)
  • Knowing (2009)
  • Leaves of Grass (2009)
  • Push (2009)
  • Twilight: New Moon (2009)
  • The Secret Disco Revolution (2012)
  • Super 8 Stories (n.d.)

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  • English

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

    Created August 19, 2019 by Elizabeth Carroll.

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