Breakthrough Entertainment’s newly completed two-hour film revival of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables will air in the U.S. as a Thanksgiving special (that’s November 24th for them — remember, the day before Black Friday),
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Festivals and More
At the Female Eye Film Festival in TO, the gala screening of Ingrid Veninger’s He Hated Pigeons will feature “a one-time-only live score improvised by Canadian singer/songwriter Jane Siberry“ reports Chris Knight in The National
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Introducing 50° North Productions
(Via PRNewswire) 50° North Productions, a Canadian television and film studio with full in-house production capability, opens today in Vancouver. It’s a project of the McLean Group’s Vancouver Film Studios (“VFS”) and EveryWhere Studios of Sherman
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Animation in the City and on the Road
Halifax (and Dartmouth) becomes an Animated City this summer thanks to the Atlantic Film Festival (AFF) Outdoor Film Experience. Eight animated fan favourites, including Shrek, Frozen, and The Lord of the Rings, will play on a
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Three Very Different Short Films Look at Sickness and Health
The Mary Alice Brandon File, directed by sisters Kailey and Samantha Spear, won three Leo Awards (Picture Editing, Production Design, and Costume Design). It sustains a mood of understated horror while being visually beautiful as
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STUDIO Selectees, Casting Directors Call for Diversity, and Erasing Eden
Congratulations to the 12 writer-directors selected for this year’s STUDIO, TIFF’s year-round professional development industry program. These “emerging and mid-career professionals“ will get the chance to learn from their peers and distinguished figures in the
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