We told you yesterday about some of the National Canadian Film Day events being held all across the country in celebration of our people and their filmmaking accomplishments. Here are some more notes and quotes
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Good Stuff in Film Industry News Today in Canada
Good for them — Human Harvest, a Canadian documentary on organ harvesting in China, has won one of the 74th Annual Peabody Awards for Documentary, Broadcaster reports. Congratulations to filmmaker Leon Lee, Principal of Flying
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4 Stories from the Canadian Film World This Tuesday
Sonja Bennett’s independent feature film Preggoland will open on May 1st in Toronto, Montreal, and the star/screenwriter’s hometown, Vancouver, according to Vancity Buzz. It’s a comedy about 35-year-old Ruth, whose life changes for the better when everyone
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7 Canadian Docs Get $625,000 From Telefilm and Rogers
(Via CNW Group) Congratulations to the teams producing the seven feature-length documentaries to receive funding support, for production or post-production, under the Theatrical Documentary Program! Namely: Nettie Wild’s Faultlines Mila Aung-Thwin’s Let There Be Light
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The good, the not so good, and the caught in the middle . . . Some not so good news about the National Film Board cutting costs, which of course means letting staff go —
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Daily Rushes for Last Thurs in Feb
The Canadian Screen Awards’ earliest trophies were handed out yesterday, eight of them to sci-fi TV series Orphan Black; read about it in the Brandon Sun Award-winning documentary Highway of Tears, the story of a
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