Gary Yates
Nascimento : , Montréal, Québec, Canada
História
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Gary Yates (born in Montreal, Canada) is a film director from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Yates has worked on Canadian television since the early 1990s and recently completed a number of feature films starring actor Kevin Pollack, including Niagara Motel (2005) and Seven Times Lucky (2004), which was nominated for five Genie Awards.
Gary Yates is a film director, screenwriter and producer from Montreal. His films have garnered worldwide critical acclaim, and have premiered at some of the world's most prestigious film festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Rotterdam, Karlovy-Vary, Shanghai, New York and Toronto.
Yates has won many international awards, for both directing and screenwriting, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award® Nomination for Best Short Film, for his surrealist comedy Without Rockets.
Yates' debut feature, Seven Times Lucky (2004) which he wrote, produced and directed, premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, and won six Blizzard Awards, including Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Actor for lead Kevin Pollak.
The film was nominated for five Genie Awards, and was awarded the top prizes at the Method Fest in Los Angeles, winning Best Film and Best Screenplay. According to the Daily Variety film review at Sundance: The grifter movie reaches a level of unprecedented enjoyment and excitement in Seven Times Lucky, an absolute knockout of a feature debut.
Yates' award-winning heist picture, High Life (2009), starring Timothy Olyphant, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for Best Feature Film and won the Best Film Editing Award at the Director's Guild Awards. High Life also won the Best Film Award at the Calgary International film Festival. Maclean's Magazine raved: Buoyantly entertaining from start to finish, Yates has lifted the material off the stage and turned it into a kinetic visual drama with sparks of druggy delirium. A Canadian answer to the Coen Brothers with a Tarantino kick.
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A former actress trying to break into directing tests her skills with a town’s annual Christmas Eve courtroom production in which the true authorship of the famous poem “A Visit from St. Nick” is debated.
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A former actress trying to break into directing tests her skills with a town’s annual Christmas Eve courtroom production in which the true authorship of the famous poem “A Visit from St. Nick” is debated.
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Buscando novas ideias para seu livro, Merry vai para a nevada Vermont e descobre uma nova perspectiva sobre a alegria do Natal com Adam, um carismático trabalhador humanitário.
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With Cara leaving on an international book tour in two weeks and Ben’s business expansion keeping him busy, the couple decides they won’t let work commitments postpone their nuptials any longer. With the help of their best friends Megan and Sean, Cara and Ben feel nothing can stop them from having the perfect wedding.
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O Starlight Café, de propriedade da família de Annie, está prestes a ser demolido. Ela promete resolver a situação antes do Natal.
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When an accident puts her music dreams on hold, a gifted violinist reconnects with an old family friend, who helps her heal and find love during the holidays.
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Em busca de uma promoção, dois designers de jogos precisam trabalhar juntos para criar um aplicativo com sugestões de encontros românticos para casais com o tema 12 dias de Natal.
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Maggie, a successful entrepreneur, returns home for a will reading and discovers she’s inherited half of her aunt’s famed maple candy business. What she doesn’t understand is why Aunt Dee’s maple supplier, Dex, inherited the other half. Her return also coincides with the town’s Sweet Autumn Fest, and through a series of letters Aunt Dee left, Maggie and Dex search for the reason behind her aunt’s final wishes. As she and Dex grow closer, Maggie must decide if the life she built is the one she wants.
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When country star Melody Jones is accused of plagiarizing her holiday single, she returns home to spend Christmas with her estranged family and old flame and learns what is important in life.
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When country star Melody Jones is accused of plagiarizing her holiday single, she returns home to spend Christmas with her estranged family and old flame and learns what is important in life.
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Cate, CEO of the Merry and Bright Candy Cane Company, meets Gabe during the busy Christmas season. She assumes Gabe is the suitor her well-meaning mother is trying to set her up with when in reality, he works for Empire Corporate Recovery, which has been hired to take a closer look at Merry and Bright's operation and find ways to make the company more profitable. As Cate and Gabe begin to work together, they find ways to elevate the business and find that they have more in common than savvy business sense.
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Stephanie participa de um programa de TV para encontrar seu par perfeito e embarca em uma romântica viagem ao campo. Seu pretendente parece ideal, mas o implicante guia turístico desperta um antigo sentimento. Será que o amor pode estar nos bastidores?
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Erika se disfarça na fábrica de chocolate de sua família para descobrir porque as vendas caíram. Quando ela conhece o chocolatier, Bryan, tem novas idéias sobre como atualizar a linha de produtos da Páscoa.
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Erika se disfarça na fábrica de chocolate de sua família para descobrir porque as vendas caíram. Quando ela conhece o chocolatier, Bryan, tem novas idéias sobre como atualizar a linha de produtos da Páscoa.
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Erika se disfarça na fábrica de chocolate de sua família para descobrir porque as vendas caíram. Quando ela conhece o chocolatier, Bryan, tem novas idéias sobre como atualizar a linha de produtos da Páscoa.
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Celebrando o romance e a nova empresa, Cara e Ben voltam para o resort onde se apaixonaram.
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Allison Bennet, along with her daughter Olivia and mother Martha, run a bakery in the small mountain town of White Pines, Tennessee. When Matthew, a charming real estate developer, tries to buy the town for a corporate ski resort, Allison and the townspeople must work together to prevent that from happening. And just when the Bennet ladies seem out of luck, an unexpected visitor – with a well-known sweet tooth for cookies and milk – comes to the bakery and may in fact be the key to solving everything.
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Told she would have less than a few months to live without a liver transplant, Heather Krueger’s time was running out when a kind stranger, Chris Dempsey, heard of her plight and discovered he was a perfect match. The two met and before long a friendship developed into romance. The movie follows Heather and Chris’ journey over three Christmases as his selfless gesture leads to a Christmas miracle for everyone involved. Based on a true story.
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While visiting a dude ranch that is a potential acquisition for the outdoor adventure company she works for, Alex, an eager candidate for a big promotion discovers what matters most when she reignites her passion for the great outdoors; and becomes smitten with the ranch’s owner in the process.
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Alex, fotógrafo de uma revista de viagens, e Colin, uma autora de best-sellers, juntam-se para encontrar uma incrível pérola. Com ambas as carreiras em jogo, a caça em um vale de Fiji pode levá-los a encontrar o único tesouro que realmente importa.
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Cara, uma escritora de revista que é deixada pelo namorado no Réveillon, decide dar um tempo de namoros. Desafiada por sua chefe a escrever a respeito, ela espera que uma viagem para esquiar com sua melhor amiga estimule sua inspiração.
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Jenna Hudson and Kevin Jenner are polar opposites working for the same online publication in New York City. With both having nowhere they want to be for Christmas, they volunteer for a special writing assignment. After a snowstorm forces their plane to land in none other than Santa Claus, Indiana, the two are placed in a Christmas Wonderland and the focus of their story shifts to saving the historic town inn run by Carol and Christopher Winters. As the two overcome their differences, they also rediscover the magic of Christmas. But with the inn's fate in jeopardy and the return of someone from Jenna's past, Carol and Christopher lend a helping hand to bring Jenna and Kevin together.
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Penny é uma mulher casada que tem o desejo de ser solteira atendido por um anjo de Natal. Ela descobre que a sua nova vida não é o que esperava e entra em uma jornada para conseguir seu marido de volta.
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Nick and Molly, commitment-phobic and busy professionals with little in common, are asked to be the best man and maid of honor at the wedding of their mutual friends, Amy and Jamie.
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Starring Hilarie Burton, Gabriel Hogan and Tim Matheson, “Last Chance Christmas” is about when Prancer injures his hoof, and Santa’s stable hand, John, must find a fill in to ensure Christmas deliveries go off without a hitch. His mission gets complicated when he discovers that Frankie, the perfect substitute reindeer, belongs to a precocious 8-year-old girl and her mother Annie. As he races to get Frankie up to the North Pole, he realizes that he’s actually falling in love with Annie and has to find a way to win her over and save Christmas at the same time.
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Starring Hilarie Burton, Gabriel Hogan and Tim Matheson, “Last Chance Christmas” is about when Prancer injures his hoof, and Santa’s stable hand, John, must find a fill in to ensure Christmas deliveries go off without a hitch. His mission gets complicated when he discovers that Frankie, the perfect substitute reindeer, belongs to a precocious 8-year-old girl and her mother Annie. As he races to get Frankie up to the North Pole, he realizes that he’s actually falling in love with Annie and has to find a way to win her over and save Christmas at the same time.
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The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year when Matt Norman, a teenage boy in the neighborhood, is hospitalized in desperate need of a heart transplant. As his parents Ann and Mike anxiously pray by his bedside, a donor is found, while in Detroit, a mother is in anguish at her own son’s bedside. When Matt's neighbors decide to honor him in the best way they know how, they just might help save his life.
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Uma jovem jornalista não tem a vida que sempre sonhou na cidade grande. Quando ela é enviada de volta para sua pequena cidade natal para escrever uma matéria sobre o feriado de quatro de julho. ela reencontra sua melhor amiga, que pede ajuda para planejar o seu casamento. O que ela não esperava é que o noivo é seu ex-namorado. Dividida entre as preparações da festa e seu trabalho, ela fará grandes descobertas sobre si mesma e encontrará o que faltava para ser feliz.
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Depois de Jessie terminar seu terceiro noivado, ela jura distância de relacionamentos sérios, até encontrar 'o cara'. Isto, é até o encantador e cronicamente solteiro Aiden aparecer. Mas sem o conhecimento dela, Aiden aposta com seus amigos que pode convencer uma mulher a casar com ele, até o Natal. Que é exatamente, daqui a quatro semanas.
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Em plena época natalina, Holly descobre que seu bilhete de loteria foi sorteado. O único porém: ele estava em seu carro que foi roubado. Com intuito de ficar com metade do prêmio, Mike auxilia a vizinha na caça ao bilhete perdido.
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Resort manager Claire prepares for a holiday family reunion, but when her grandfather makes a startling announcement and then dies unexpectedly, Claire must solve a devilishly clever puzzle in order to earn her inheritance and expose a murderer.
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Sandra Brown’s “Smoke Screen” follows newswoman Britt Shelley (Jaime Pressly), who shockingly wakes up in bed next to the dead body of Detective Jay Burgess and is suspected of foul play. Five years prior, Jay’s lifelong friend Raley Gannon (Currie Graham) also woke up next to a dead body. After learning of Britt’s scandal and the similarities between their two cases, he realizes she might be his only chance for vindication. As the two unravel their mysterious cases together, they find themselves caught in a dangerous political cover-up involving arson and murder.
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TV Movie directed by Gary Yates. Claire is hosting her best friend's wedding. Guests arrive, old family conflicts resurface and the night before the wedding, the Groom goes missing. Only Claire knows of Danny's disappearance and she is determined to find him and bring him back before her best friend finds out.
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Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her captor, engineering her own rescue and negotiating her safe release after 6 days of hell.
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It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense money. The latter development gives Dick an idea.
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It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense money. The latter development gives Dick an idea.
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Acontecimentos estranhos aterrorizam uma pequena cidade pesqueira. Um casal de namorados desaparece nas águas do oceano e um atordoado sobrevivente jura ter sido atacado por um "monstro do mar". Para investigar a história do que pode ser a causa da crise pesqueira, é enviado à cidade um cientista do governo, Dan Leland (James Van Der Beek) que se alia a uma oficial da guarda costeira. A comunidade local corre risco de vida, e o pânico vai se instalando. Todo morador que até agora ignorou o alerta de perigo, nunca retornou para casa com vida. Agora todos terão que lutar contra este ser das profundezas do oceano que tem um único desejo: nos esmagar!
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Nas montanhas da região da Geórgia, nos Estados Unidos, existe a pequena e pacata cidade de Mount Heaven, esta chefiada por Grady. No mesmo local, só que na floresta vive Roy, um garoto de 12 anos, junto com sua devotada mãe. A paz que até então reinava no local passa a ser ameaçada, quando aparece na floresta, o pedaço de um corpo. Depois de investigado o caso, a polícia acredita que há um assassino a solta, e segundo evidências, o assassino é uma espécie do tigre bengala, que possivelmente teria fugido durante uma viagem pelo local.
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A group of struggling individuals cross paths at a low-rent motel in the tourist Mecca of Niagara Falls
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An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
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An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
