Toronto filmmaker Barry Avrich is giving his moguls and Shakespeares to Ryerson University. The Barry Avrich Collection includes his Moguls Series: films on such powerful and influential showbiz players as Lew Wasserman (The Last Mogul), Harvey Weinstein (Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project) and Bob Guccione (Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story) that have been a cornerstone of Avrich’s 21-year moviemaking career. Avrich has also directed many film productions of Stratford Festival stage performances of Shakespeare classics, among them The Taming of the Shrew, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night and Love’s Labour’s Lost. “I came to Ryerson as a student from Montreal and it was here that I picked up my first film camera. Today, Ryerson is home to some of Canada’s leading programs in film and photography preservation, documentary media and media production, “ said Avrich, who holds the title of distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson.

Source: thestar March 15, 2017 15:11 UTC