Nika & Madison is a Canadian feature film, shot and set in Ontario. It’s a crime thriller that takes on the all too common issue of authoritarian abuse against Indigenous women. It was co-written, produced,
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How Canadian Filmmakers Portray Gambling and Risk on Screen
Canadian cinema often uses gambling as a lens to explore ambition, anxiety, and intimate personal stakes, drawing on motifs like card games or roulette to intensify drama. Contemporary settings sometimes acknowledge the broader shift toward
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Leaving Beringia and Its Impact at Victoria Film Festival
In February 2026, the Canadian documentary Leaving Beringia made its world premiere at the Victoria Film Festival, marking a significant moment for Indigenous storytelling in contemporary cinema. Directed by Métis Cree filmmaker Barbara Todd Hager,
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First Trailer for HBO’s Lanterns TV Show Released Last Week to Plenty of Intrigue, But How Does Guy Gardner Fit into It All?
2026 is set to continue building on James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe – or DCU if you will – which began in later 2024 with the animated show Creature Commandos, followed by the
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From Reel to Algorithm: How Streaming Changed What Gets Made in Canadian Film
The Deal That Changed the Room In 2017, a Canadian screenwriter with two festival-screened features behind her spent eighteen months developing a crime drama with a major broadcaster. The project collapsed — not on creative
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Vertical Films and the New Economics of Acting in Canada
The titles alone tell you something. Crashing Into My Magnate Ex. The Billionaire’s Second Wife. Return of the Alpha’s Unclaimed Queen. These are not prestige dramas competing for TIFF slots. They are vertical films —
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