(Via CNW) Applications are now being accepted for the 2016 Bell Media Executive Producer Accelerator Lab, Bell has announced. The Lab is a two-part program that provides mid-level television producers with unique hands-on training to
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Filmmakers Find Their Chances at TIFF
Fire Song, Adam Garnet Jones’ film set in an aboriginal community, has drawn attention at TIFF and gets a closer look from Victoria Goldberg at Excalibur. Also at TIFF is the premiere (today) of New
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Beyond the Red Carpet at TIFF and More
“Six years later, [Naomi] Klein is set to nail another manifesto to TIFF’s door,” writes The National Post’s Joseph Brean — this one being the Leap Manifesto, presented today and calling for change across a
Continue ReadingTaking Shelter, Taking Video with Drones, Taking Comedy Votes
Taking Shelter, a film by Toronto collagist Jonathan Culp that opened in Toronto on Canada Day, is a unique work made up of clips from 434 “Canuxploitation” films from the 70s and 80s, when there
Continue ReadingBack to the Future Day and Back From Banff
October 21, 2015, will of course be Back to the Future Day, and Cineplex will be showing Parts I and II that day, with all three to follow on the 25th — but tickets go
Continue ReadingCross-Platform, MMVA’s, and NSI’s Features First
Don’t worry too much about which platform you use, says TV producer Ted Biggs, just tell the audience the story they want to hear. That could be good news for the many creators who can
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