Every year, six talented, new filmmakers are chosen from hundreds of applicants to make a short film for Crazy8’s. Crazy8s provides filmmakers with a significant boost to their projects. Six finalists receive $2000 each, plus
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How to host a film night with a casino theme
There is something about a casino setting that turns an ordinary evening into something cinematic. The green felt, the clinking chips, the low light over a card table is the kind of atmosphere that has
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GEMFest 2027 Submissions Now Open
The Gender Equity in Media Festival (GEMFest) has officially opened submissions for its 2027 edition. Entering its 22nd year in 2027, the festival showcases an impressive line-up of short and feature-length films, including narrative, documentary,
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Beyond the Multiplex: How Canadian Entertainment Audiences Are Spending Their Leisure Hours in 2026
Cinema attendance in Canada peaked in 2019 at roughly 130 million admissions. By 2023, that number had settled at around 80 million — a significant gap that the industry expected to close faster than it
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Shadows and Stakes: The Dialectics of Identity, Genre, and Regionalism in Canadian Cinema
Canadian cinema has historically occupied a unique, highly contested space in global film studies. Positioned adjacent to the cultural hegemon of Hollywood, Canadian filmmakers have struggled against structural exclusion, low national viewership, and a persistent
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First Official Images Are Released for James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow, and John Wick Spinoff Caine Adds Bill Nighy to Cast
While YouTubers-turned-filmmakers Curry Barker and Kane Parsons are blazing trails at the box office, the commercial behemoths of 2027 are currently in development, one of which is the Superman sequel titled, fittingly enough, Man of
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