Today's Top Stories Archives

Insightful Commentary from and on the Canadian Film World

Animations, Web-based film app, Winnipeg and WWI

November 20, 2015November 20, 2015Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, festivals, NFB, The Faith Project, The Faith Project NFB, Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, Yorkton Film Festival

(via CP/CBC) Two Animated Shorts from NFB to compete for nominations in the Oscars. If I Was God… and Carface are two popular Canadian animated shorts that look like potential Oscar winning material. Cordell Barker,

Third celebration of The Shortest Day

November 19, 2015November 19, 2015Announcements, Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, Sarah Gadon, The Shortest Day

(Via CNW) Earlier, Sophie Cadieux and Sarah Gadon were announced as the official ambassadors for The Shortest Day, a country-wide program that hosts many different kinds of short films. Whether they be classic or new,

What it is and isn’t about today

November 19, 2015November 19, 2015Today's Top Storiescanada film industry news today, cross-screen advertising, Sarah Gadon, The Shortest Day, Videology, World Television Day

(Via PRNewswire) It’s not all about tailoring your ad video to specific devices, it’s about meeting the consumers wherever they consuming content. Videology, a leading software provider for converged TV and video advertising, reports “a

Film Festival announcements, and actors finding new work

November 18, 2015November 18, 2015Today's Top StoriesAnupam Kher, Calgary Underground Film Festival, canada film industry news today, CUFF, CUFF Docs, Gerard Butler, Off The Record, Saskatchewan Film Week, SMPIA, WAFF, Winnipeg's Aboriginal Film Fest

James Bradshaw of The Globe and Mail has recently said that Off The Record is being pulled off the air, thus Bell Media will be laying off a lot of employees. While host Michael Landsberg

Two Docs, Two Sarahs at Whistler — and Five More Docs

November 17, 2015November 17, 2015Today's Top StoriesA Royal Night Out, Calgary Underground Film Festival, canada film industry news today, CUFF, CUFF Docs, How To Change The World, I Smile Back, Jerry Rothwell's How To Change The World, Sarah Gadon, Swift Current, Whistler Film Festival

(Via CNW) A couple of important documentaries are about to be available to Canadian viewers: Jerry Rothwell’s How To Change The World, the Canada/U.K. co-production about the birth of the modern green movement and the

Discovery’s Frontier Starting, Amazing Race Auditions Ending, SayNoToSpec Going Viral

November 16, 2015November 16, 2015Today's Top StoriesBrad Peyton, canada film industry news today, Discovery Canada, Discovery Canada Frontier series, SayNoToSpe, Zak Mroueh

(Via CNW) Discovery Canada today has announced its new drama series, Frontier, set among the fur traders of 18th-century North America, “in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights.” The

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