Last week, I wrote at length about Canadian cinema’s “Tax Shelter Era” which ran from 1974-1982 and encompassed those movies in which investors could claim 100% of their investment in a film for tax purposes.
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Tax Shelter Era: When Canadian Cinema Got Popular
“There are now many Canadian films, but there aren’t too many good ones are there?” The above quote was spoken in 1980 by then-Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau at a black-tie film industry event. Whereas
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VIFF: UNTIL BRANCHES BEND Mines Rural Angst
It’s quite lonely out there for the whistleblower. The price of doing the right thing often incurs the wrath not only of the perpetrator, but of the very people the whistleblower is sounding the alarm
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VIFF: UNARCHIVED Sheds Light on BC’s Untold Stories
“The process of silencing makes a lot of noise.” They say history is written by the winners or at the very least, the people in charge. When we visit a museum or read about local
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VIFF: THE MAIDEN Scores One for the Lonely
Whaddya wanna do for the next ten years? I don’t even know what I’m doing tomorrow…. We don’t truly appreciate the carefree days of youth until they’re long gone. For some, these times tragically end
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Jason Loftus Resurrects a Startling True Story in ETERNAL SPRING
Oppression of ethnic, religious or political minorities often finds its fuel in negative and false narratives perpetuated by an authoritarian state via the mass media it controls. Opportunities to combat this narrative are often thwarted
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