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Film
In brief: CMF renews incentives with Germany, South Africa
Just For Laughs Group ups Patrick Rozon, Manitoba Film & Music board adds new faces, plus more.
Dans La Brume wins big at Fantasia
The France/Canada copro, directed by Quebec’s Daniel Roby, won best film at the Montreal genre fest.
CMF awards $5.5M across 14 docs
Rezolution Pictures’ Red Fever and 90th Parallel’s Michelle Latimer-directed Inconvenient Indian are two of the projects to receive funding.
Ron Mann’s Carmine Street Guitars to debut at Venice
Two Canadian virtual reality projects have also been selected to compete at the Italian festival.
Film financier MovieCoin partners with TV-Two
Smart TV viewers will be rewarded with cryptocurrency for watching trailers and sharing their personal data on the TV-Two platform.
Vertical Entertainment acquires The Reckoning for U.S.
Barry Avrich’s follow up to his 2010 film Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project will be released stateside later this year.
Hot Sheet: Top 10 films July 13 to 19, 2018
Hotel Transylvania 3 comes in at #1, followed by Ant-Man and The Wasp at #2, while Denis Arcand’s La Chute De L’Empire Americain cracks the top 10.
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films July 13 to 19, 2018
La Chute De L’Empire Americain tops the list, followed by Metamorphosis coming in at #2 and Nelly et Simon: Mission Yeti landing at #3.
SODEC selects 11 docs to receive production assistance
Galafilm’s Odyssee sous les glaces and Cinemaginaire’s La parfaite victime are among the docs to receive funding.
TIFF ’18: Gala lineup revealed, but no Canadian titles included
Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project and Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece are among the Canadian projects selected for special presentations.
CMF’s cross-country consultation set for 18 cities this fall
Focus groups will give stakeholders the chance to weigh in on how evolving market conditions and a challenging regulatory environment will affect CMF’s funding programs in the future.
Sonoda sets to work on next feature
Warren P. Sonoda will soon start shooting Things I Do For Money, produced by Federgreen Entertainment and Filmcoop, in Hamilton, ON.
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