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The Coproduction Boom, Macedonian Film Festival, and NFB @ RIDM

(Via WireService.ca) Telefilm Canada says there’s been a “remarkable growth in Canadian coproduction” in recent years, with 2014 alone seeing 67 audiovisual treaty coproductions. Twenty-six of these were films and 41 were TV shows (either one-time or series). Among the better known English language coproductions were Room (coproduced with Ireland) and The Book of Negroes (with South Africa).

(Via MarketWired) The 10th Annual Macedonian Film Festival is underway, running till the 25th, at Toronto’s Carlton Cinemas. Winners have already been announced — congratulations to Juanita Wilson for As If I Am Not There (Best Feature Film), Ed Gaffney for Empty Boxcars (Best Documentary), and Nebojsha Jovanovik for Unripe Cherries (Best Short Film).

The National Film Board announces that three more NFB films have made the lineup at RIDM — that’s the Montreal International Documentary Festival for us English speakers — Quiet Zone (NFB), a short film by Karl Lemieux and David Bryant, screening in competition; Mark Lewis’s feature film Invention ( Mark Lewis Studio/NFB/S oda Film + Art), screening as a special presentation; and Arthur Lipsett’s classic 21-87 (NFB), which will screen in a retrospective program entitled “A Photographer’s Eye.”

Shoot sighting: Palm trees sprang up around a coffee shop in New Westminster, BC, yesterday . . .

 

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