(Via WireService.ca) Telefilm Canada says there’s been a “remarkable growth in Canadian coproduction” in recent years, with 2014 alone seeing 67 audiovisual treaty coproductions. Twenty-six of these were films and 41 were TV shows (either
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Let Go in Beverly Hills, Louder Than Hell in Wacken, Casting in North Bay
Let Go, a poignant new Quebecois short by Isabel Dréan, is making its U.S. debut at the 7th Annual Lady Filmmakers Festival, Chicart Productions tells us. The film explores survival after the loss of a child
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Vote! (For the enRoute People’s Choice)
(Via CNW/Telbec) Radio-Canada says (in French) that it welcomes the Liberal victory with optimism, and recaps campaign promises made to it, starting of course with funding. There’s lots going on in Sudbury, and MFM is
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A French-speaking drummer (male, late teens) and sundry other musicians (same demographic, no French needed), plus a biker type (” think tattoos, facial hair, big dudes”) are needed by St. Nickel — MFM has the
Continue ReadingAboriginal Artists, Casting Call, Beeba Brampton, African Artistry
Canadian Indigenous creators will now have “an even better way to create audacious, innovative and socially relevant digital media works” thanks to an enhanced partnership between the National Film Board and imagineNATIVE Film + Media
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Background, Summit, and enRoute
Two casting calls for background extras on St. Nickel today, as posted at MFM: On the 17th, they need “Boys aged 6-8 to play in a large ‘Boy Scouts’ type of scene”, and parents can
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