Our readers respond to Monday’s article (‘Stranded Canucks angry at Telefilm‘) about MIP delegates stuck in Cannes under a cloud of volcanic ash.

As a prior participant at MIP for over 10 years, I ‘ironically’ laughed at the article. The responses quoted… sum up completely with what’s wrong with the Canadian film and television industry, in that they highlight a group of companies and individuals so lacking in initiative and intelligence as to blame or implicate Telefilm in their being stranded.

It strikes me that anyone so clueless in this business as to think that Telefilm is responsible for anything other than the services provided under the Canadian Pavilion should pursue another career path involving no initiative whatsoever!
Adam Shaheen
President, Cuppa Coffee Studios

I am currently a member of what has become known on Twitter as the #miptv #stranded community. I am stuck in Cannes. I have been to the Nice airport three times for three different flights in the last week that have not taken off. Though I empathize first-hand with some of my frustrated colleagues here, I do not really see it as Telefilm Canada’s role to make arrangements to get us home. Was it an opportunity lost to not have pro-actively taken a leadership role? Maybe.

By all means let’s beat up Telefilm when they get it wrong, if we don’t like a new funding program guideline or some odd coproduction rule or what have you… But when it comes to their management of the MIPTV/MIPCOM/Cannes market stands, they consistently knock it out of the park.
Dan Shannon
ID Communications

It’s in the times of crisis that the true nature of someone/something’s character is shown and I think Telefilm has shown theirs… They couldn’t even say they sympathize; they just talked about their own delegates. They couldn’t be less helpful if they tried!
Jarrod MacLean

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