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
(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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Adjusting to TV, Advertising on Twitter, Award for Efforts
It can be a learning curve to transition from feature films to TV — even for experienced producers. Strategic Partners 2016, presented by the Atlantic Film Festival, offers help with its Dramatic Television Incubator. Returning
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News Round II
(For Round I, see Nick’s video post here.) WorksafeBC says Fox US Productions 49 is at fault for Dylan O’Brien’s injuries on the set of Maze Runner: The Death Cure in March of this year,
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Breakthrough: Green Gables Going South
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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