ReGenesis is Shaftesbury Films’ signature series, now airing in nine languages – including Japanese – in over 100 countries, including the U.S. syndication market.
The large-format 3D feature Bugs! has grossed $40 million globally and made Shaftesbury Films a significant producer of IMAX movies worldwide, but it was a bunch of kids in California that made Jonathan Barker cry tears of joy.
Feature doc about controversial Chinese dam buoyed by international interest at Amsterdam festival. Avi Lewis pitches adaptation of wife Naomi Klein’s bestseller The Shock Doctrine
Fifty years after seeing Castro march into power, documentarian and CBC vet Michael Maclear goes back, this time for History, to see how ‘el revolution’ worked out
When filmmakers from AFI and CFC compared notes about the U.S. and Canada, Hollywood got respect but Telefilm took it on the chin
Artist, educator and Genie-winning director of Lilies hailed for his work on the big and small screens with Bell Award in Video Art
‘Avid has a bullet-proof software that has paid for my mortgage,’ says veteran editor Peter Hordylan, regarding the company that created the first commercially available digital nonlinear editing system.
Since the Gemini Awards show launched its way onto the Canadian airwaves in 1986, Mounties have sung, Cynthia Dale has danced and Martin Short has showed up in a dress.
‘Maria is the living example of making lemonade when life gives you lemons,’ says George Anthony, the former creative head, arts music and variety for CBC TV arts and entertainment.
Away from Her takes best director, film and picture editing at Saturday night ceremony. Brian Anthony introduced as new executive director of the guild