14 Factoids | Volume 7
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Guy Maddin, a Winnipeg
avant-garde filmmaker produced,
among many others, The Saddest
Music in the World with Isabella
Rossellini, the docu-fantasy
detailing Maddin's hometown,
My Winnipeg, and in 2016 won
the Rogers Best Canadian Film
Award for his surreal outing, The
Forbidden Room.
* Lady Gaga and Perez Hilton
helped discover Maria Aragon,
after seeing the young
Winnipegger's cover of
"Born this Way" on YouTube
in 2011 (the video has been
viewed over 58.5 million times!).
Since then the two have performed together while Aragon's
solo career has taken off exponentially; she's performed
on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, on Parliament Hill for Prince
William and Kate Middleton, and gained huge exposure in the
Philippines.
*
Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald
was a Winnipeg painter
who became the only
western member of
Canada's famous Group of
Seven. These artists heavily
influenced Canadian art and
Canadians' impression of
their community. *
Photo
courtesy
www.imdb.com
Photo courtesy Ernest P. Mayer
