This year, for the first time ever, several of the films at Hot Docs will be available with described video and closed captioning, thanks to a partnership between the festival and Accessible Media Inc. (AMI).
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1st in VR, 40th for Animation Fest
(Via PRNewswire) Trinity, the first live-action interactive film project shot in virtual real- ity, has begun production, announces Montreal VR production studio Unlimited. It’s a sci-fi adventure set in a futuristic world, where the viewer
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TIFF’s MacNaughton Goes to Washington, Grand Unified Theory Goes to Beijing, Director X Goes Across the Line
Things are looking different for TIFF this year as David MacNaughton has stepped down from the TIFF board of directors. MacNaughton has now taken on an important international role as Canadian ambassador to the United States.
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4DX at Cineplex, Visuals in Songs, and Canada in Memphis
(Via Marketwired) Cineplex is bringing 4DX, an immersive theatre technology, to Canada for the first time. “Amplifying the experience from watching a movie to almost being in it,” is how a media release describes 4DX.
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Bypassing Hollywood, and Films from the Provinces
“The $3 TV program that bypasses Hollywood”: The National Post’s Robert Cushman writes about Horace and Pete, Louis C.K.’s web series that you can only (legally) get from his site. The fact that it’s made
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Big Brother, Banff, and Budget (Micro)
(via Corusent.com) As Big Brother Canada continues on, more evictions happen. Recently, Mitch Moffit of Guelph has been evicted. After what seemed like a week of Mitch taking over the show and making alliances with
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