Patricia Bailey

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Where are the women directors?

Why do so few women direct feature films in Canada?

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Network quiet on new budget

CBC’s board has approved a new, leaner budget, but won’t confirm if layoffs are imminent, says a pubcaster spokesman. ‘We will inform our staff before we go to the media,’ CBC spokesman Marco Dubé told Playback.

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Filmmakers rally behind NFB

In the past, the National Film Board was an extraordinary place, today it’s in the process of disappearing.

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Pilon on top at Prix Jutra

The Quebec film leading the race for the upcoming Genies, Benoît Pilon’s Ce qu’il faut pour vivre picked up the top prizes…

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Spike series aims at Montreal

Varsity Pictures and Lionsgate will shoot a 13-part series about football, partying and hazing this spring…

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Christal makes a comeback

Christian Larouche is looking for new digs to house a much leaner version of his Christal Films Distribution after creditors…

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Network quiet on new budget

CBC’s board has approved a new, leaner budget, but won’t confirm if layoffs are imminent…

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NFB’s Simard out to change society

High-voltage. That’s how Montreal’s high-brow daily Le Devoir described Monique Simard shortly after she was appointed head of French-language production at the National Film Board last summer.

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Audiences still flocking to Star Académie

Just as viewers elsewhere are abandoning conventional TV, Quebec audiences are going against the tide…

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Heritage minister stumbles on talk show

James Moore’s campaign to prove he cares about Quebec hit a snag Sunday night after the federal heritage minister couldn’t answer some basic questions…

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Filmmakers rally behind NFB

In the past, the National Film Board was an extraordinary place, today it’s in the process of disappearing…

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TVA readies rocker biopic

Expectations are high for Quebec producer Roger Frappier’s Dédé, à travers les brumes — a film about the troubled life…