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Insightful Commentary from and on the Canadian Film World

Mostly CSA News (Plus a Little Death Cure)

March 14, 2016March 14, 2016Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Canadian Screen Awards, CSA 2016, CSA Fan's Choice Award, documentary Sugar Coated, Murdoch Mysteries, Nick Serino, Orphan Black, PAW Patrol director Jamie Whitney, Room, Schitt’s Creek, The Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Yannick Bisson

The Chronicle-Herald has a readable straightforward list of the big winners at last night’s Canadian Screen Awards, via CP, here. Yes, it was a big night for Schitt’s Creek (best comedy, comedy actor, comedy actress),

Women in Film, VR in Space (with Video) and Kidoodle in the World

March 11, 2016March 19, 2018Today's Top StoriesA Parent Media Co. Inc. (“APMC”), ARTE360, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, DEEP Inc., International Women's Day NFB, Kidoodle.TV, Koncept VR, National Film Board, NFB, RoboGarden™, The Edge of Space, Vancouver International Women in Film Festival

The NFB celebrated International Women’s Day by announcing “that at least half of its productions will be directed by women and half of all production spending will be allocated to films directed by women” beginning

Awards, Prizes, and Our First Original Video

March 10, 2016March 10, 2016Today's Top StoriesAcademy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Annahis Basmadjian, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Canadian Screen Award, Canadian Screen Awards, CSA's, early CSA's, HNMag YouTube channel, Hovy Qiu, PAL Canada Foundation, Schitt’s Creek, The Book of Negroes, The Divergent Series: Allegian, tv

More early CSA’s — The Globe and Mail’s Barry Hertz reports some of the 49 handed out last night in TO, including nine for The Book of Negroes and six for Schitt’s Creek. Of course

CSA Round 1, Canada Stands In, Good Year for Ontario

March 9, 2016March 9, 2016Today's Top StoriesAcademy of Canadian Cinema and Televison, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Canadian Screen Awards, CSA's, Joseph Itaya, Lost & Found, Songs of Freedom, Still Standing, Vietnam: Canada's Shadow War

Barry Hertz of the Globe and Mail reports that Sports and News gets honoured and awarded in Canadian Screen Awards. Fifty honours were handed out last night, in categories such as documentaries, lifestyle, and reality

WFF and WWF

March 8, 2016March 8, 2016Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Feature Project Lab, Reel Canada, The Whale, WFF Feature Project Lab, Whistler Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival (WFF)

(Via Wireservice.ca) Canadian producers are invited to apply for the Feature Project Lab at this year’s Whistler Film Festival (WFF). This is an intensive two-phase experience that covers both creative development and the business end

Crew Call, Free Movies, Further Shades

March 7, 2016March 7, 2016Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, crew call, Debris, further adventures of Max and Banks, John Bolton, MFM, NFB, Northern Ontario, Tainted

A crew call is on for two feature films scheduled to shoot in Northern Ontario this summer, says MFM. There are a lot of key positions to fill and another round coming up — details

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