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Leaving Beringia and Its Impact at Victoria Film Festival

March 12, 2026March 9, 2026Documentaries, FestivalsBarbara Hager, Leaving Beringia, 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,

First Trailer for HBO’s Lanterns TV Show Released Last Week to Plenty of Intrigue, But How Does Guy Gardner Fit into It All?

March 11, 2026March 9, 2026News in BriefAaron Piere, Kyle Chandler, Lanterns

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

From Reel to Algorithm: How Streaming Changed What Gets Made in Canadian Film

March 11, 2026March 11, 2026Canadian Independent FilmsBill C-11, Canadian Film, Development, Streaming

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

Vertical Films and the New Economics of Acting in Canada

March 11, 2026March 11, 2026Online SeriesActing, Production, UBCP/ACTRA, Vancouver Market, Verticals

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 —

The Quiet Career: Canadian Actors Who Never Moved to LA — and Why It Worked

March 11, 2026March 11, 2026ActorsCallum Keith Rennie, Canada, Canadian Actors, Catherine O'Hara, cbc, Dan Levy, Eugene Levy, Locations

The standard narrative about Canadian actors goes like this: get good enough at home, pack a bag, move to Los Angeles. Ryan Reynolds did it at nineteen. Rachel McAdams followed a film degree with a

Gambling on Screen: How Canadian Filmmakers Have Used the Casino as a Character

March 11, 2026March 11, 2026The Bottom LineCasino Jack, Casinos, Cold Deck, Gambling, Lucky Girl, Math, Owning Mahowny, The Last Casino

Most casino scenes in American films do the same job: they signal wealth, danger, or moral decline. The setting is there to amplify the stakes of something else happening in the story. Canadian filmmakers have