Location was all-important for the Leo-nominated rollercoaster, a film that also-nominated director Scott Smith describes as an ‘exploration of adolescence set in an amusement park,’ and that follows five teenagers from a group home on a day when two of them…

The film with the distinction of the highest number of Leo nominations, My Father’s Angel, tells one part of Canada’s immigration story….

Reginald Harkema, Leo-nominated director of A Girl Is A Girl (also up for best picture) looks upon the honor with ‘begrudging enthusiasm.’…

What do a car blasting out of nowhere and a man who can’t work out which washroom is which have in common?…

When Rudy Buttignol falls in love, he clearly falls hard….

In 1999, a farmer in the tiny French village of Pozieres hooked the belt of an Australian soldier, buried since 1916, with his plow and lifted the skeletal remains right out of the ground. In fact, such was the devastation clustered…

Documentarians wanting to come up with salable product should throw out all their old stories and start again. At least, that’s the message from some of the buyers who will be present at Hot Docs….

Demand for documentaries is greater than ever – but licensing fees are dropping. And filmmakers are learning their lesson. Leaner, meaner docmakers desperate to keep costs down are apparently behind what Marilyn Kynaston, director of international sales at Vancouver distrib Forefront…

For the first time, attendees to this year’s Hot Docs documentary film festival in Toronto can use the event to turn their ideas into product – with the help of the Toronto Documentary Forum, a pitching forum modeled on and partnered…

Television series dominated this year’s Writers Guild of Canada Top Ten Awards for Excellence in Screenwriting, with feature films sneaking a bare look-in at the awards ceremony, held last week in Toronto….

In 1969, a recent university graduate went to Winnipeg City Hall looking for a summer job to fund her trip to Europe. The path she started on that day led Phyllis Yaffe to a distinguished career focused on Canadian cultural entities…

Psst – want to get into moviemaking? Just get hold of a digital camera, take out a bank loan, and become a guerilla….