When docmaker Ron Mann won the prize for best individual artist at the Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, he was tasked with choosing the winner of the $15,000 emerging artist prize. He chose Charles Officer.

Crackerjack kids writer Christin Simms, a self-described ex-‘nerd-girl’, clearly understands what makes a story tick.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television ushered in an era of glitz, glamour and national media awareness of this country’s filmmakers 30 years ago when PR was nothing but a dream north of Hollywood.

Fresh off a win at the Banff World TV Festival for Best Canadian project (Passage), filmmaker John Walker says: ‘Life is good.’ The director and cinematographer has won one Genie and five Gemini Awards over 23 years in both documentary and fiction categories.

Documentary activist and two-time Genie winner Velcrow Ripper recalls winning his first award for the lyrical ecological feature Bones of the Forest. (His second Genie came for ScaredSacred in 2004.)

Michael McNamara, co-CEO of Markham Street Films, producers of the upcoming David Bezmozgis feature Victoria Day, directed and helped co-write the TVO hit Polka Dot Shorts, which won the best preschool series at the 2000 Geminis.

Hot Docs’ Toronto Documentary Forum concluded with Canwest commissioning editor Sara Jane Flynn handing the $40,000 prize for best Canadian pitch to White Pine Pictures for its project The Team.

The Toronto Documentary Forum concluded on a high note when Canwest commissioning editor Sara Jane Flynn handed the $40,000…

Filmmakers eager to pitch socially responsible projects gathered on Thursday at the first North American Good Pitch session at…

There was a lot of pitching but very little catching at the festival’s Toronto Documentary Forum…