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Patricia Bailey
Cochons leads Jutra race with 13 nods
MONTREAl: With 13 nominations, Zoo Films’ box-office hit Les 3 p’tits cochons leads the finalists for Quebec’s 10th annual Jutra awards, which were announced Feb. 5 and included a surprise nod for the English-language feature doc Up the Yangtze.
Girard pursues Happiness
Two Quebec producers hope to cash in on the centuries-old antagonism between the people of la belle province and their cousins across the Atlantic with their upcoming flick Le bonheur de Pierre (Pierre’s Happiness), which stars two of French-language cinema’s most beloved actors: Quebec’s Rémy Girard and France’s Pierre Richard.
French, English Rendez-vous in Montreal
Organizers of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois have taken the unprecedented step of reaching out to anglophones
Little word on French lifestyle channel
TVA says its digital Télé-Services will launch shortly, but won’t say what it will show
Cochons leads Jutra race with 13 nods
Quebec awards put smash comedy Les 3 p’tits cochons up for best picture and screenplay, but snub director Patrick Huard. Continental, un film sans fusil follows with eight. Surprise nomination for Up the Yangtze
Quebecor and Shaw take the stand
Cable companies behind the squabble over CTF make their case Thursday before the CRTC, but face stiff opposition from creatives in Quebec
Director gets in the head of a star-struck Beatles fan
Short Film (Animated): I Met The Walrus, Madame Tutli-Putli,
Tutli-Putli takes viewers ‘someplace else’
Short Film (Animated):I Met The Walrus, Madame Tutli-Putli, Even Pigeons Go To Heaven, My Love, Peter & The Wolf
Girard heads up Canada/France copro
Comedy Le bonheur de Pierre puts Quebec star Rémy Girard next to France’s Pierre Richard, playing on the tensions between Quebecois and Parisians
Witten steps in at NFB
History Television exec jumps ship to head the board’s English Program, edging out candidates said to include insiders Silva Basmajian and Gerry Flahive
Too many Quebecors?
Troubled printer Quebecor World has been asked by its parent to drop the ‘Quebecor’ name, following its move into protection from its creditors
Interest, but no offers for TQS
Potential buyers are kicking the tires of the troubled French network, which has received an extension on court protection from its creditors
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