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Insightful Commentary from and on the Canadian Film World

Lumiere Award, Trend Report, and What Film Students Can and Can’t Do

January 28, 2016January 28, 2016Today's Top Stories40 Below and Falling, Arabic-language short Alia, binge viewing, canada film industry news today, Director Dylan Pearce, Film students at York University, Lumiere Award, Media Technology Monitor (MTM©), Media Technology Monitor (MTM©) Sneak Peek Report, over-the-top (OTT) service, Pinewood Studios Toronto, producer Andrew Scholotiuk, Raghed (Ray) Charabaty, wearable technology, William White International

(Via Wireservice.ca) A Lumiere Award has gone to the producer and director of 40 Below and Falling, shot in native 4K 3D across Alberta. Director Dylan Pearce (recently nominated for a CSA) and producer Andrew

Angell’s Demons? And Others

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016Today's Top StoriesAndy Digney, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, CTV, DC's LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, LUCIFER, Quantico, The X-Files, Victoria Angell Summoned, video shows royal visit in 1939

(via CBC.ca) Archive video shows royal visit in 1939. Recently, some rare archive video footage from 1939 has been uploaded to YouTube. The footage starts out with kids in Burnaby, BC, setting up for a

French-Canadians in The Revenant, Capilano Grads in TO, Sesqui All Over

January 26, 2016January 26, 2016Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, Canada's Top 10 Film Festival, canadian independent film, Capilano University’s Motion Picture Arts (MOPA), James Brown (Never Steady, Matt Drake (Balmoral Hotel), Never Still), Roy Dupuis, Sesqui, The Revenant

Not everyone loves The Revenant — actor Roy Dupuis, who turned down a role in the film, says it portrays French-Canadians as “horrible barbarians.” The National Post’s Tristin Hopper has more. Two of Capilano University’s

Etheria in TO, Majumder on Nunavut, and Canada at Sundance

January 25, 2016January 25, 2016Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Etheria Film Night, Etheria Toronto, Matt Johnson's Operation Avalanche, Shaun Majumder, Sundance

Etheria Toronto celebrates women in the tv and film industry, writes Debi Moore at Dreadcentral.com. The showcase known as Etheria Film Night is on its way to Toronto, happening February 20, 2016. Etheria Film Night

Film Festivals Everywhere

January 22, 2016January 22, 2016Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, Certain Women, festivals, Game Face, ineup for Toronto Black Film Festival, Outlaws and Angels, Sing St, Soul on Ice, Sundance Film Festival, TBFF, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, The Settlers, THINA SOBABILI, Toronto Black Film Festival, Yorkton Film Festival

(via yorktonnews.com) Yorkton Film Festival will be continuing their World Wars screening program. Started just last year in November, the Yorkton Film Festival has included a screening program which tells World War stories from a

Highlights and Low Dollar

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, digiPlaySpace exhibition, low Canadian dollar, Ottawa, TIFF, TIFF Bell Lightbox, TIFF Next Wave Film Festival™

TIFF has a couple of announcements today — the fifth annual digiPlaySpace exhibition will open on March 5th (“just ahead of March Break by popular demand”) and run for seven weeks at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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