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DGC BIPOC membership remains below national average: report
The Directors Guild of Canada’s 2024 census also revealed that average yearly incomes fell 22.4% across ethnic and gender lines, due to the 2023 strikes.
BANFF ’25: Content leaders explore market challenges, AI
Broadcasters from Canada and the U.K. discussed YouTube strategies for discoverability and Tubi’s CEO broke down the streamer’s Gen Z success on day two of the festival.
Deals: Paramount+, Cineflix Rights, Sphere Abacus, Sinking Ship
Paramount+ in Canada acquires The Pink Pill as an original documentary, Cineflix Rights closes multiple deals for its factual content, and more.
Paramount+ greenlights Forté Entertainment’s Eva LaRue doc
Commissioned for Paramount’s See It Now Studios, the doc has been picked up by Hearst U.K. and Bell Media for its Oxygen True Crime channel.
Indie List 2025: Producers mixed on opportunities for screen sector
Canadian producers weigh in on the good, the bad and the AI of it all in the fast-evolving film and TV industry.
In Brief: Cjay Boisclair wins 2025 WIDC Advantage Award
WIFT+ Toronto and its foundation welcome new board members, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival announces executive changes, and more.
Canadian debuts in the spotlight at Fantasia 2025
The first features from filmmakers Simon Glassman, Ava Maria Safai and Jean-Pierre Bergeron are among the projects world premiering at the Quebec festival.
TIFF 50th edition to open with John Candy doc from Colin Hanks
John Candy: I Like Me, produced by Ryan Reynolds, tributes the Canadian actor and comedian who died in 1994 at 43-years-old.
Elevation, Mercury Films to produce Fire Weather doc
EXCLUSIVE: the feature, directed by Nicholas de Pencier and Jennifer Baichwal, builds on John Vaillant’s non-fiction book, which details 2016’s Fort McMurray, Alta. wildfire.
Really Happy Someday wins Inside Out 2025’s Best Canadian Feature
Other winners at this year’s Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival include Walter Scott for Organza’s Revenge and Noam Gonick’s Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance.
Screen Nova Scotia names 2025 award winners
Jason Buxton’s Sharp Corner and Crave’s The Trades were among the winners at the 2025 Screen Nova Scotia Awards Gala.
Justin Ducharme marks feature debut with Seventeen
The Indigenous-led project is produced by Experimental Forest Films and Ducharme’s Your Boy Productions.
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