Canada has produced numerous household names since the birth of cinema, from Mary Pickford in its earliest years, to Christopher Plummer in its midlife onwards, while modern-day flag bearers such as the Ryans Gosling and
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A Producer’s Role – Vancouver’s Chris Kape Speaks to Experience Producing Run This Town
Austin, Texas is a little more than 3,600 miles from Vancouver, but last year, for one night — March 9, to be precise — the southern city was transformed into Hollywood North when the film
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Canadian Cinemas Map a Post-Lockdown World
Quick, name the number one box-office smash in North America. “What box office?” you ask. Haven’t theatres been closed since mid-March? It’s true that most of the continent’s approximately 45,000 cinema screens went dark shortly
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THE ODYSSEY: Canada’s Cult Classic – Part 2
As the first season of The Odyssey completed its seminal run on CBC in January 1993, the numbers were more than impressed enough to guarantee a second season, but not without some major adjustments. Show
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THE ODYSSEY: Canada’s Cult Classic- Part 1
A boy in a treehouse fort looks down at the forest floor fifty feet below him. Suddenly the rope in his hands snaps causing him to plummet down….down…down. He slams into the ground, knocking him
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Films with Canadian Links Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic
With the world now in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare officials working tirelessly to tackle the virus, life as we know it has been altered in ways that many had previously thought
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