Long-sought output deal hands all-platform rights in Canada to Toronto distributor, starting with John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt

Rhombus picture struggles down south but fares better in Canada, ringing in a per screen of $3,000 for Alliance

As the deadline for next year’s festival closes in, director of programming Sean Farnel offers pointers on how to make a submission ‘pop’

The controversial picture, in a version re-cut since Cannes, arrives amid wide releases from Disney, Sony, MGM and Universal

Canadian Federation of the Blind to picket screening in Victoria, calling McKellar’s latest ‘outrageous and offensive.’ U.S. group targets 80 cities

Dragons & Tigers prize goes to Emily Tang’s tale of two women in a Chinese boomtown. Festival troubled by construction noise

Exhibitor buys multiplexes from Landmark

Director expects activist celebs including Daryl Hannah and Danny Glover to boost high-minded doc Fierce Light. Distribs ready two-pronged campaign

Alberta fest looks to boost profile next year by cheering cinematic groundbreakers

Change has become the norm for the Gemini Awards, and that’s a good thing, according to Sara Morton, CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, which organizes the annual celebration of Canadian TV.

Our perception of movies about indigenous peoples is often one of troubled worlds not our own, and rarely of generational tensions typical of our own lives – between parent and child or elders and grandchildren.

OTTAWA: Election politics dominated opening night at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (Sept. 17-21) when, speaking before a packed house at Ottawa’s legendary ByTowne Cinema, the fest’s artistic director Chris Robinson metaphorically criticized federal cultural funding cuts in a lengthy diatribe about ‘monkeys damaging the banana crop.’