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Inaugural RiFF announces award winners
Three award winners were named in the first Reel Indie Film Fest, a music-focused film expansion of Indie Week.
Canadian scribe nabs prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowship
Vancouver writer Patty Jones has received one of the five year-long screenwriting fellowships from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Award winners named in imagineNATIVE media fest
The festival curates shorts, features, documentaries, radio projects and other content from local and indigenous artists.
John Walker explores Nunavut’s origin story
“This is a very Canadian story, an epic Canadian story,” the veteran doc maker tells Playback of his latest film, Arctic Defenders.
When Calls the Heart series shooting in B.C.
The series features the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the early 1900s, as depicted in the books by Canadian writer Janette Oke.
EPI’s How Tech Works returns for a third world tour
Produced in-house by Discovery Channel Canada, the series, now heading into its third season, is made exclusively for the international market.
Picture Box picks up Guardians: Evolution
The Canadian distributor is shopping the sci-fi stop-motion animated series for kids (pictured) at MIPCOM, along with factual series Selling Big.
Hlibka picks up rights to If I Were You
The Toronto based prodco and distributor will release the film theatrically and digitally.
Flight of the Butterflies 3D picks up awards on its film festival migration
The Imax nature documentary coproduced by Canada and Mexico chronicles the migration of millions of Monarch butterflies. It is being screened at museums and large format theatres around the world.
Vancouver screenwriter named finalist for Academy fellowship
Georgia Straight writer Patty Jones will compete against nine other writers for a prestigious 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowship, awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Big News From Grand Rock signs on big name Canucks
With actors including Gordon Pinsent, Aaron Ashmore and Ennis Esmer on board, the Markham Street Films production will begin shooting in Midland, Ontario after successfully raising part of its production funding through Indiegogo.
Blurred lines: travelling Cronenberg exhibit fuses art and film
Taking an inside look at the The Cronenberg Project, a tribute in art and film to the famed Canadian director, presented by TIFF and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.
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