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Insightful Commentary from and on the Canadian Film World

Daily Rushes for the Last Business Day in Feb

February 27, 2015February 27, 2015Daily RushesAfter the Ball, Andrea Martin, Bell Media’s BravoFACT, BravoFACTUAL, Bruce Greenwood, Canadian Screen Week, CSA, daily rushes, DOC, Documentary Organization of Canada, Don Carmody, Elephant Song, Festival Concierge, festival submission process, Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent, National Screen Institute, Survivor in Canada, TIFF Bell Lightbox

Cinderella, Shakespeare, and The Devil Wears Prada meet — in Montréal — in After the Ball, opening this weekend. Read Chris Knight’s review. Andrea Martin wonders if the red carpet will be indoors or out

Canada Film and TV News in Brief

February 18, 2015February 18, 2015News in BriefCanada Stars in Awards Season, Chris Knight, Dissolve, FootageBank, Legacy Award TIFF, National Screen Institute, Old Fashioned, Piranha Games, Screen-to-Table(SM) Awar, Seed&Spark, Shaw Media

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

Playing in the Peg: Cinematheque

February 11, 2015February 11, 2015Announcements, In Theatres NowAPTN, Cinematheque, Le Dernier Soir, Monsoon documentary, National Screen Institute, Nocturna, NSI Aboriginal Documentary, Sturla Gunnarsson, The Great Beauty, The Lunchbox movie, Winnipeg Film Group's

Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque is, as it says, “screening the very best in Canadian and world cinema” right now — and here’s a little bit of what it’s presenting over the next few days: The

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