May 2015 – Page 9

10 Films Telefilm is Supporting

May 7, 2015May 7, 2015TelefilmBorealis, Ego trip, How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town, People Hold On, Prisoner X, Room, Telefilm, Telefilm Canada, The People Garden, The Steps, The Waiting Room, Undone

(Via CNW) Telefilm Canada announced yesterday it’s giving $7.1 million to help with production of nine English-language films and one French-language film. (Okay, those are some numbers I’m not going to touch.) A glance at

6 (Mostly) Good News Stories About Film in Canada

May 7, 2015May 7, 2015Today's Top StoriesAdventure Film Series, Alex Gibney, Animation, Carey Missler, GO Fest, low Canadian dollar, news, Northern Folk, Nova Scotia, Paul Plett, The Paddler, Vancouver

Filmmaker Paul Plett (also an amateur musician) thought it was strange nobody had ever made a documentary about the world of Canadian folk music — so he decided to do it himself. Northern Folk will

6 More Stories About Filmmaking in Canada Today

May 6, 2015May 6, 2015Today's Top StoriesBC Emerging Filmmaker, Campfire Films, Carey Missler, Grand River Film Festival, GRFF, Heads You Lose, Nova Scotia film tax credit, TIFF Kids International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF

In The Chronicle-Herald, Len MacKeigan says the Nova Scotia Liberal government hasn’t fixed the film tax credit problem they created: “There’s a Band-Aid on the wound, that’s all.” Via WireService.ca, the Vancouver International Film Festival

Love Requiem: A Review

May 6, 2015May 6, 2015ReviewIndieflix, Love Requiem, Love Requiem: A Review, review

Love Requiem is a foreign drama that is somehow an action/adventure film as well. It’s described on Indieflix as “visual poetry” that lets the viewer share the “emotional confusion” of the characters. The film starts

6 Film and TV Stories You’ll Want to Read

May 6, 2015May 6, 2015Today's Top StoriesApple TV, Apple TV Shomi, April Mullen's 88, Canadian Heritage Committe, Crave TV, Crave TV Apple TV, Frank Giustra, Reel Youth Film Festival, Shomi

Frank Giustra of Lions Gate and Thunderbird Films is “openly seething”, The National Post reports, over implications going around, south of the border, about his connections to Bill (and by extension Hillary) Clinton. “And I’m

Cobraman Hopes to Take Anti-Bullying to TV

May 5, 2015May 5, 2015IndependentAnimation, Cobraman, tv

(Via WireService.ca) Cobraman: He sounds like a new member of the Avengers, but he’s actually ” a real life social justice advocate” against bullying — and his creator hopes he’ll soon have his own animated