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Animators Needed, Depression-Busting Movies, Black Radical Imagination, and More

Gallus Entertainment needs animators — 2D, both junior and experienced — to work on its series Lazoo, MFM announces. The studio is located in Sudbury; get all the other details here.

(Via WireService.ca) The right movies can help beat holiday depression, says Emmanuel Lopez. The Toronto-based motivational speaker (and movie blogger) says films can help you “re-ignite a positive attitude and remain productive despite challenges” — something he found out for himself while watching It’s A Wonderful Life. What films might help you? Lopez has suggestions at his site, Motivatorman.

The traveling film exhibition Black Radical Imagination screens at Montreal’s articule Friday after playing in Toronto, CBC’s Amanda Parris reports.  (She also notes that Canada’s black filmmakers have often been limited by the terms of government funding.) It’s made up of curated visual shorts exploring  “vision[s] about post-modern society through the state of current black culture.” Admission is free.

Just a reminder, Indieflix is offering free service today and tomorrow — and though it’s in honour of U.S. Thanksgiving, there’s plenty of Canadian content to see on this site devoted to independent film.

The cast and crew of Birth of the Dragon put in a long day of filming fight scenes yesterday, as the Pacific Coliseum in (where else?) Vancouver was turned into an arena in midcentury California.

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