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Call for Entries: Reel Peach Film Festival

June 23, 2016November 17, 2021Awardscanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, festivals, Larkyn Statten, Okanagan Film Commission, Real House Wines of BC., Reel Peach Film Festival

For the second year in a row, the Reel Peach Film Festival is looking for entries. The festival is (surprise) part of the Penticton Peach Festival, running from August 3rd through 7th, and films will be

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Beyond National Aboriginal Day

June 22, 2016November 17, 2021FilmmakersAboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, CBC Docs, Danis Goulet, documentary, imagineNATIVE, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, Jeff Barnaby, National Aboriginal Day 2016, Pinnguaq, TIFF, virtual reality, WFF Industry Summit, Whistler Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival (WFF)

National Aboriginal Day 2016 (June 21st) saw announcements of several initiatives that will work to give more of a voice, through film and other media, to the First Nations of this country. CBC Docs (via

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Days to Remember

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016Today's Top Stories19 Days, Asha and Roda Siad, Chanie Wenjack, Heritage Minutes, Historica Canada, Krystal Nutarak, Mittimatalik, Naskumituwin (Treaty), National Film Board, NFB, Oceans North, Savannah Killiktee, Shane Belcourt, Siad sisters, Siad sisters Asha and Roda, Tallurutiup Tariunga, Wabunganung Film Company

19 Days, a short (half-hour) documentary about refugees at at the Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre in Calgary, is streaming free at the NFB site, the ever well-informed Eric Volmers of The Calgary Herald reports. The

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Critical (Review with Video)

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016ReviewBJ Harrison, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Critical (Review with Video), Gardiner Millar, Jason Harder, Jon Ornoy, Kelley Doyle

Set in a hospital during an unspecified civil disturbance, this 2007 short film explores an issue that’s even more current today — ending the lives of the critically ill. Dr. Maureen Jefferson (BJ Harrison) has

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The Recently Chosen

June 17, 2016June 17, 2016AwardsAmy Jo Johnson, Brooklyn, Comedienne, Corus Diverse TV Director, Derek Vermillion, Élise Beaudry-Ferland, Eric Janvier, Film Circuit People's Choice Awards, gods acre, James Pickering, Jessica Adams, Jon Ornoy, kelton stepanowich, Lucas Frison, My Heart is in My Head, NSI, Shanghai International Film Festival, Talent Lucas Frison, Telefilm's Micro-Budget Production Program, The Imitation Game, The Road Behind, The Space Between, TIFF, Whistler Film Festival's Feature Project Lab

The Road Behind, just named a finalist in Telefilm’s Micro-Budget Production Program for 2016-2017, is directed by Kelton Stepanowich (the Alberta-based team also includes Derek Vermillion [writer)], Eric Janvier [producer]). When we talked to him

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Micro-Budget, Proud to Be, and New Rules for Local News

June 16, 2016June 16, 2016Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, CRTC, local news, Lovely Witches Club, Proud to Be, Telefilm, Telefilm's Micro-Budget Production Program, tv, web series, Why Good People Do Bad Things

(Via CNW) The 18 finalist teams have been named for Telefilm’s Micro-Budget Production Program for 2016-2017. They represent every region of the country and include web content (a new category this year) like Lovely Witches

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