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Film
Newton Landry Management opens Sudbury office
The talent agency is expanding into Northern Ontario to capitalize on the growing film/TV market. (Sudbury office head Matthew J. Guthrie pictured.)
Fire Song wins imagineNATIVE audience award
The feature from Adam Garnet Jones picked up the Air Canada Audience Choice Award at the fest.
Province invests $12.8M in Northern Ontario Heritage Fund
The funding will go towards film and television productions, as well as infrastructure projects.
Hyena Road, Reunion of Giants mark Remembrance Day
Cineplex is opening up access to Suddenly Seemore’s Avro Lancaster doc and the Paul Gross feature with free screenings on Nov. 11.
Michael Eklund, Camille Sullivan win UBCP/ACTRA Awards
Five members of the Union of British Columbia Performers, an autonomous branch of ACTRA, were honoured at an awards gala held in Vancouver Saturday. (Eklund pictured.)
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs Oct. 19, 2015 to Oct. 25, 2015
Jurassic World tops the DVD chart for the week of Oct. 19 to Oct. 25, with San Andreas at #2 and Aladdin at #3.
CRTC, NFB’s French-market discoverability event
The two organizations are co-hosting the second round of the pre-discoverability summit focusing on the French-language content market.
Nova Scotia puts $475K into local film industry
The provincial government funds are to support location services and marketing initiatives over two years.
Deals: Mongrel, eOne, Lionsgate, Nelvana
Mongrel Media takes the Canadian rights to Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next (pictured), plus more deals of the week.
NFB inks deal to boost QC English-language arts
The deal with the English Language Arts Network and Quebec English-language Production Council is the first of its kind for a federal cultural agency in Quebec, the NFB says.
VVS inks output deal with STX Entertainment
The Space Between Us, starring Gary Oldman (pictured), is on the first slate of films to be released by VVS Films via the deal.
Reel Asian ’15: Driving change in South India with ‘Selvi’
Ahead of Thursday’s premiere of Driving with Selvi at the Reel Asian International Film Festival, director Elisa Paloschi caught up with Playback sister publication realscreen.
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