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Everyone’s a Critic: Kudos for Act of God, Adoration a miss

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Big win for White Pine

Hot Docs’ Toronto Documentary Forum concluded with Canwest commissioning editor Sara Jane Flynn handing the $40,000 prize for best Canadian pitch to White Pine Pictures for its project The Team.

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$50K for Sticks and Stones

And the $50,000 Shaw Rocket Prize goes to… Sticks and Stones, a film from Cirrus Communications (Montreal) and Dream Street Pictures (Moncton). Now in its fifth year, the Rocket Prize is offered for the most innovative and creative Canadian production of 2009 for youth and families.

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Sales spree for Amreeka

E1 Entertainment has closed a raft of international sales for the Canadian copro following its…

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Nichols losing Momentum

The managing director of Alliance’s distribution arm in the U.K. is to leave her post at…

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Dolan makes a Kill-ing

Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan has swept three of the four prizes at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight…

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TVA snaps up Paris

The Montreal distributor has snagged the Canadian rights to the Paris Hilton documentary…

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Voodoo takes shorts prize

The NFB has handed the win for its annual short film competition to Joaquin Baldwin and his…

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Alliance buys Time

The distributor has picked up A Matter of Time, an action-thriller due…

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E1 to distribute Buscemi, Silverman match-up

The company has picked up Canadian distribution rights to Saint John of Las Vegas, a dramatic comedy pairing…

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E1 gets jump on Cannes market

The company’s international wing has closed a string of international sales for Canadian titles including Michael McGowan’s…

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Living on the edge

Canada’s national treasure keeps reinventing itself. That’s how the National Film Board stays edgy at 70. That’s how it wins countless awards worldwide, including a dozen Oscars.