UNIONS & GUILDS Articles
Study: Canadian writing rooms are mostly white and male
FILMTVUNIONS & GUILDSThe Ryerson RTA School of Media study, which was based on 266 responses to a survey of the Writers Guild of Canada’s membership, found industry concentration is sending scribes to Toronto and Hollywood.
Proposed Ontario law aimed at toughening child acting rules
POLICYUNIONS & GUILDSACTRA Toronto president David Sparrow (pictured) says the new law is needed to protect child actors who currently work outside of collective agreements.
CMPA, directors guild reach tentative agreement
POLICYUNIONS & GUILDSDetails of the new pact, hammered out after negotiations restarted in April, won’t be released until the agreement is ratified.
CMPA target of DGC-screen composers alliance
FILMTVUNIONS & GUILDSThe pact sees the Directors Guild of Canada negotiating with the producers’ association for a composers’ collective bargaining agreement (Screen Composers Guild president Marvin Dolgay pictured).
In the writers’ room with WGC awards TV comedy nominees
TVUNIONS & GUILDSDenis McGrath, Craig David Wallace and Kim Coghill sound off on their writers’ room must-haves and how they would bring Less Than Kind and Todd and the Book of Pure Evil together.
Weekly roundup: Premieres and awards news
FILMTVUNIONS & GUILDSThis week’s news includes notice that Z Films’ documentary We are Here (pictured) has wrapped, and the DGC’s Quebec Council has new board members.
DGC-CMPA talks on new standard agreement resume Apr. 2
UNIONS & GUILDS“There’s rumours floating around and I have to make it clear that there’s no intention by the DGC in Ontario, or within this collective agreement, to take job action,” guild chair Alan Goluboff told Playback.
Weekly roundup: premieres, distribution and awards
FILMTVUNIONS & GUILDSDoc-makers William D. MacGillivray and Michael Maclear have received accolades for their bodies of work and Toronto’s Cinefranco international film festival will include English Canada premieres of two Quebec films (Catimini pictured).
Rick Mercer Report, Degrassi win Screen Awards
TVUNIONS & GUILDSAwards for best drama, children’s and youth, comedy and variety were handed out Thursday on the second night of awards-giving for the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards.
Tatiana Maslany, Shawn Doyle win at ACTRA Awards
FILMTVUNIONS & GUILDSShannon Kook-Chun won for outstanding voice performance, while Shirley Douglas received ACTRA Toronto’s 2013 Award of Excellence at the Saturday awards event (Maslany pictured).
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ACTRA Awards 2013 - Art Hindle and wife Brooke at 2013 ACTRA Awards in Toronto (photo: Lisa Blanchette)