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Film
Blog: Speed dating, festival-style
Entertainment lawyer, producer and Playback blogger Anita K. Sharma shares her experiences from the Producer’s Lab at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
ACCT launches Genies ad campaign
Exclusive: A day ahead of its official launch, Playback has a sneak-peek at the Academy’s new spot promoting Canadian film and the March 8 Genies broadcast.
Canada’s Indie Game: The Movie wins Sundance award
Debut filmmakers Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky cap off a successful Sundance festival with a prize for best editing in the World Cinema Documentary competition.
Plummer snags a SAG award
The veteran Toronto-born actor continues to pile up the accolades for his role as Hal in Beginners.
Vancouver unveils ultrafast server farm for digital animation and FX work
RenderCloud aims to bolster the city’s digital economy by enabling local studios and Hollywood to produce the next Shrek or Avatar in British Columbia.
eOne acquires N.A. rights to Wish You Were Here
The distributor will release the film in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Australia and NZ through Hopscotch, in 2012.
VVS picks up Canadian rights to Arbitrage
The distributor acquires the Richard Gere starrer following its buzzed-about premiere at Sundance.
Tatyana Ali takes lead in Sudz Sutherland’s Home Again feature
The indie drama is shooting in Jamaica, Trinidad and Canada, and also stars Lyriq Bent, Stephan James and C.C.H. Pounder.
Empire Theatres expands in St. John’s
The eight-screen facility, set to open in 2013, will use digital projection in all auditoriums.
Pelman announces departure from Alliance Films
Brad Pelman has left Alliance Films six months after Maple Pictures, which he co-founded in 2005, was acquired for $38.5 million.
Netflix Canada continues building customer base with new programming
The U.S. video streaming giant, while rebounding in the fourth quarter south of the border, continues to power ahead in Canada.
Playback Indie Survey profile: Timshel Pictures
Justin Kelly, writer and director at the Toronto-based prodco talks to Playback about making connections in comedy in 2011.
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