The tenth Tribeca Film Festival, which runs April 20 - May 1, has announced its jurors, among whom the Canadian filmmaker, director and Civilitas Foundation honorary board member Atom Egoyan. Egoyan joins the eclectic quartet of moviemaker David O Russel, Whoopi Goldberg, actor Michael Cera and funnyman Denis Leary on the panel. The festival features six competitive categories with 38 judges divided across the categories. The winning films, filmmakers and actors in those categories will be announced at the Tribeca Awards Night ceremony on 28 April streamed live on TribecaFilm.com.

A Canadian leading not-for-profit contemporary theatre company Canadian Stage announced programming details for the Festival of Ideas and Creation - the company's annual festival, supporting the development of artists and new works, taking place at the Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto from May 9 to 21, 2011. The Festival will include over 30 exciting free events that explore the future of theatre with award-winning artists including Civilitas Foundation honorary board member Atom Egoyan.

Civilitas Foundation honorary board member and Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan is among the jurors for the ninth annual Glenn Gould Prize – an international award bestowed by the Glenn Gould Foundation in memory of noted Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. It is awarded every third year to a living individual in recognition of his/her contributions to music and communication.

The jury for the so-called “Nobel Prize of the arts” also includes British actor, writer and director Stephen Fry, Chinese singer/songwriter Dadawa, pianist Gary Graffman and two Canadians, singer and vocal producer Elaine Overholt and film producer Phoebe Greenberg.

The prize laureate will be announced April 1. The winner receives $50,000 and chooses a young artist to receive The City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize of $15,000.

The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker will also direct his first major play in Canada for Canadian Stage's 2011-2012 theatre season. In addition, Egoyan plans to direct his wife, Arsinee Khanjian, in British playwright Martin Crimp's Cruel and Tender next year.

To celebrate its 10th Anniversary, the Whistler Film Festival in British Columbia, Canada will be honoring ten Canadian filmmakers.  Civilitas Foundation honorary board member Atom Egoyan is one the ten filmmakers being spotlighted.   The Festival will focus on filmmakers who inspire through their art, embody important voices in the Canadian cinematic landscape and are shining examples of what the Whistler Film Festival is all about. The Whistler Film Festival runs from December 1 to December 5, 2010.

Filmmaker Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, Adoration) has, over the course of three decades of movie-making, probed such disparate characters as strippers and comedians in provocative and artful ways. Egoyan further demonstrated his artistic curiosity at The Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday during a public conversation with curator Michael Taylor commemorating the recently opened retrospective on modernist painter Arshile Gorky.

The Armenian-Canadian director shared his thoughts on Gorky, also Armenian, after whom Egoyan named his son. Gorky plays a major role in one of Egoyan’s most known films, Ararat, which dramatizes the Armenian genocide, and in Portrait of Arshile, a short film with footage of his son the director made in the nineties. But the painter has been with the director his entire life, from his childhood in Egypt and Canada with his parents, both painters, to his experiences in young adulthood trying to articulate his identity as both English and Armenian.