{"id":171256,"date":"2012-09-12T16:24:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T20:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/?p=171256"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:29:48","slug":"tiff-2012-six-minutes-to-win-it-in-pitch-this-feature-film-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2012\/09\/12\/tiff-2012-six-minutes-to-win-it-in-pitch-this-feature-film-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF 2012: Six minutes to win it in Pitch This! feature film contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>York physics grad <strong>Ian Harnarine<\/strong> (BSc \u201902) had trouble with his microphone when he was called to the stage to pitch his film to a crowd of TIFF industry insiders as part of the 13th annual Telefilm Canada Pitch This! contest. Harnadine was one of six teams pitching their feature film ideas for a chance to win $10,000, reported the <em>Toronto Star<\/em> Sept. 12. \u00a0The technological snafu didn't hurt his pitch \u2013 Harnarine's first feature-length film, Doubles with Slight Pepper, won the coveted prize. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/tiff\/article\/1255467--tiff-2012-six-minutes-to-win-it-in-pitch-this-feature-film-contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/sns-201209111700--tms--savingsgctnzy-a20120911-20120911,0,4208705.story\">7 questions you need to answer for a secure retirement<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThere are many good personal finance writers, and in previous columns I have recommended many of them, and their books. One author who has not received a great deal of press in the United States, but who is well respected among financial experts and financial planners, is <strong>Moshe Milevsky<\/strong>, a professor at York University in Toronto, wrote columnist Elliot Raphaelson in the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> Sept. 11. Raphaelson was reviewing Milevsky\u2019s latest book <em>The 7 Most Important Equations for Your Retirement<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/sns-201209111700--tms--savingsgctnzy-a20120911-20120911,0,4208705.story\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>York physics grad Ian Harnarine, one of six newbie filmmakers taking part in the 13th annual Telefilm Canada Pitch This! contest, won the coveted prize of $10,000, reported the <em>Toronto Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-171256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-york-in-the-media"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TIFF 2012: Six minutes to win it in Pitch This! 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