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Anne Émond’s Nuit #1 to receive Claude Jutra Award
FILMThe tribute from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television continues the dominance of Canada’s film awards by Quebecois directors.
Dead Before Dawn 3D sold to Germany, UK and Russia
FILMThe distribution deals sprang from a successful European Film Market for Canadian horror film director April Mullen and writer Tim Doiron.
How Peter Moss, Phyllis Platt and Brian Dennis expect to make a killing with CBC crime dramas
TVOr how PDM Entertainment solved the mystery of popular crime writer Louise Penny’s reluctance to give up her Three Pines/Inspector Gamache series for TV treatment.
Geminis to introduce best international drama competition
TVThe rule change follows industry criticism that European costume dramas like The Borgias (pictured), The Tudors and Pillars of the Earth dominated Canada’s TV awards in recent years.
Phyllis Platt, Brian Dennis and Peter Moss form TV producer PDM Entertainment
TVThe Canadian TV veterans are developing character-driven properties, including adapting the Louise Penny crime novels Three Pines/Inspector Gamache.
Michael Ray Fox’s first feature is Roaming in Halifax
FILMThe relationship drama earned the First Feature Project award from Film Nova Scotia and Telefilm Canada, picking up $110,000 in film financing.
APTN greenlights Mohawk Girls from Rezolution Pictures
TVAlso on the production front, OLN has pacted with BBC America and UK’s Channel Five to co-produce Wild Things, a travel series in search of wild insects.
CBC documentary confronts TV hypersexualizing young girls
TVMaureen Palmer, director of Sext up Kids, tells Playback Daily that mass media is creating unsavoury role models for young women.
Production underway on Ruba Nadda’s Inescapable
FILMThe indie thriller will shoot through mid-March in Canada, South Africa and Lebanon.
VVS Films acquires Aftershock and Pawn Shop Chronicles in Berlin
FILMThe Canadian distributor also picked up the Jean-Claude Van Damme-starring action film Enemies Closer at the European Film Market.
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CFC Reflect Gala 2012 - 2011 CFC Actors Conservatory Participants. Men are wearing Ben Sherman, Ladies are wearing Pink Tartan. Photo by Trevor Haldenby