Who needs the mail? DVD renter looks to start large-scale distribution by the end of the year

‘Hotbed of film and television activity’ draws awards to Alberta for first time

Documentarian headed to Disneyland with cash prize

Tel Aviv in the spotlight as organizers unveil new program and first of TIFF’s international selections

Plans for Montreal fest include Funny People and Roy Dupuis-starrer Les doigts croches

Waterlife: This documentary about the Great Lakes directed by Torontonian Kevin McMahon ‘has much to be admired in terms of a visual style and a message that is timely and urgent,’ according to Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television ushered in an era of glitz, glamour and national media awareness of this country’s filmmakers 30 years ago when PR was nothing but a dream north of Hollywood.

Fresh off a win at the Banff World TV Festival for Best Canadian project (Passage), filmmaker John Walker says: ‘Life is good.’ The director and cinematographer has won one Genie and five Gemini Awards over 23 years in both documentary and fiction categories.

Documentary activist and two-time Genie winner Velcrow Ripper recalls winning his first award for the lyrical ecological feature Bones of the Forest. (His second Genie came for ScaredSacred in 2004.)

Michael McNamara, co-CEO of Markham Street Films, producers of the upcoming David Bezmozgis feature Victoria Day, directed and helped co-write the TVO hit Polka Dot Shorts, which won the best preschool series at the 2000 Geminis.

K-Films says it will consider an English Canada release based on reactions at TIFF and VIFF

David Bezmozgis says he got some unexpected help on his first feature when under-employed Toronto crew signed on for his debut Victoria Day