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Canada Film and TV News in Brief

From the Regina Leader-Post: Chris Knight has some questions about the Oscars’ “often artificial divide between original and adapted screenplays” . . .

(Via PRWeb) Old Fashioned, the, ahem, old fashioned romance whose “release [at the same time as 50 Shades] was deliberately timed to show a contrast in the films’ two messages” is doing pretty well out of that . . . Want to find out what it takes to land a job as a 3D artist in the video game industry? Piranha Games’ Head Recruiter Cyrus Liu lets you know at a free (but limited enrollment) 3D Training Institute webinar, live on the 25th . . . Seed&Spark, the crowdfunding platform for independent film, now has a distribution program with iTunes . . .

Shaw Media and the National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) are teaming up for another year  — this time, not only for Shaw Media Fearless Female Director award in the NSI Online Short Film Festival, but for the new Shaw Media Diverse TV Director program, a course for experienced directors who’d like to direct scripted TV.

(Via PRNewswire) Dissolve, the Calgary-based provider of high-quality footage for TV, movies, the Internet and more, has signed FootageBank as an exclusive contributor, making more than 80,000 rights-managed video clips available . . . The First Annual Screen-to-Table(SM) Awards take place Thursday, produced by BakeSpace.com and honouring movie/food milestones like Most Uninhibited Table Manners, Most Delectable Comfort Food, and Most Dysfunctional Family Dinner . . .

The Toronto Star tells us the Canada Stars in Awards Season will celebrate, among much more, the Legacy Award that TIFF will be receiving from the Academy.

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