Today's Top Stories Archives

Insightful Commentary from and on the Canadian Film World

Films of Everyday Syria, Residential School Voices, and a 13-Year Commercial Break

December 1, 2015December 1, 2015Today's Top StoriesAbounaddara, Barbara Cranmer's Our Voices Our Stories, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, CraveTV, CTV, documentary, The X-Files

The Vancouver Courier has a piece on Abounaddara, “an anonymous collective of volunteer, self-taught artists whose weekly short films offer a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Syrians.” The films offer an alternative view to the

Northern Casting and Discoverability

November 30, 2015January 3, 2018Today's Top Storiesaudition Northern Ontario, Billy Campbell, CTV series Cardinal, Discoverability Summit, Disorderly Conduct, En route to the Discoverability Summit, Hallmark movie, Karine Vanasse, MFM

Apply now (by 2:00 today) if you’d like a chance to audition for Disorderly Conduct, a Hallmark movie about two urbanites doing community service in ranching country (and only making things worse while they “serve”).

Black Friday News

November 27, 2015November 27, 2015Today's Top StoriesBanger Films, Black Christmas, canada film industry news today, Mychael and Jeff Danna, The Good Dinosaur, Tug of War

Tug of War to be screened tonight at University of Windsor, says CBC. The independent film focuses on the lives of two young Muslims who become extremists. The film focuses on factors that lead to

Animators Needed, Depression-Busting Movies, Black Radical Imagination, and More

November 26, 2015November 26, 2015Today's Top StoriesBirth of the Dragon, Black Radical Imagination, canada film industry news today, Emmanuel Lopez Motivatorman, Gallus Entertainment, Indieflix, It's A Wonderful Life, MFM, movies as anti-depressant, Vancouver

Gallus Entertainment needs animators — 2D, both junior and experienced — to work on its series Lazoo, MFM announces. The studio is located in Sudbury; get all the other details here. (Via WireService.ca) The right

News Round 2

November 25, 2015November 25, 2015Today's Top StoriesAtmospheric Pressures – Short Films from CFMDC, Atom Egoyan, canada film industry news today, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Cogeco Cable, Experimenta film festival, Whistler Film Festival

(Via PRNewswire) A cable exec has been named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women. Louise St-Pierre, President and CEO of Cogeco Cable, was announced as a Women’s Executive Network (WXN) 2015 Canada’s Most Powerful Women:

Location Call, Greenwood Honoured, Online Shorts, Long Paddle

November 25, 2015November 25, 2015Today's Top StoriesBanff Mountain Film Festival, Bruce Greenwood, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, MFM, National Screen Institute, NSI, NSI Online Short Film Fest, Paddle For the North, Whistler Film Festival

Do you have (or know about) an abandoned-looking house in the woods near Sudbury or North Bay? How about a cave or a cabin in the same kind of place? MFM reports a location scout

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