Patricia Bailey

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Filmmakers, distribs and theaters align to attract Quebec bums

It’s an unlikely partnership which unites Quebec’s filmmakers and distributors with theater owners. Their goal: to convince moviegoers in la belle province to stop buying American.

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Hot Sheet: Alliance Vivafilms’ Patrick Roy

While the Quebec film industry frets about a drop in interest for homegrown flicks, the top exec at Montreal-based Alliance Vivafilm, Patrick Roy, is on a roll.

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SODEC, Telefilm announce picks

A road movie, a cop comedy and a hero biopic are among the French-language films Telefilm Canada will support…

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Quebec: the next generation

They say they aren’t part of a collective movement, but most of the filmmakers billed as Quebec’s New Wave have this in common…

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Quebec box office hopes for a comeback

The director/actor team behind one of the most successful films in Canadian history, Bon Cop, Bad Cop, is back with Cadavres

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Respectful release pays off for Polytechnique

After two weeks in theaters, the first film about the Dec. 6, 1989 murder of 14 women at a Montreal engineering school remains at the top of…

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Jutras jump on Babine

With nine nominations, actor/director Luc Picard’s surrealist fable Babine is leading the race for Quebec’s most prestigious film awards

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Polytechnique ‘is a memoriam’ to Montreal massacre

The first film to re-enact the shooting deaths of 14 female university students two decades ago…

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Beleaguered funds still in business

The federal Tories have pledged to keep both the Canadian Television Fund and the Canada New Media Fund alive over the next two years…

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Green TV viewers want no apocalypse

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Chamberlan clarifies theater plans

In an effort to fill the gap that will be left when the Ex-Centris complex…

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Locals plead with Langlois

Fans and distributors of independent film are asking Daniel Langlois to keep his Ex-Centris complex open