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Victor Loewy, Ian Greenberg to receive Academy special awards
The ACCT has also announced an engagement strategy that lets fans vote for Canada’s Screen Star and also gives them a chance to attend the live Screen Awards broadcast.
Mercury Active acquires Riptide Games
The digital entertainment studio will purchase Riptide’s proprietary gaming library and design and production services unit.
CCI Entertainment promotes two executives
The prodco and distributor has promoted Federico Vargas (pictured) to the position of VP sales, while VP marketing and licensing Kristin Lecour has taken on all Canadian TV and digital sales.
City Seeds a digital preview
In advance of Feb. 4 premiere of the homegrown series produced by Force Four Entertainment, City is launching an interactive app that lets users make a baby, and an online sneak peek of the first episode.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Jan. 13
In this, the second weekly installment of new Playback exclusive list of top Canadian-made programs based on Seevibes’ social media index, we see how Lost Girl beat Heartland by comfortable margin.
Paper tablet creator Roel Vertegaal to keynote at Crossmedia
Other conference speakers will include Erik Martin, general manager of reddit.com, Mark Gbuneim, CEO of Wiredset and Trendrr and Strategic Partnerships Google’s Ipsa Desai.
Vancouver hosting international 3D conference
The newly-launched Canadian chapter of the International 3D Society and Emily Carr’s S3D Centre will co-host 3D[FWD], about the business of 3D with discussions from industry vets including Geneva Film Co’s James Stewart.
CMF invests $4.2M in 19 experimental projects
Of the 19 projects, 12 received a total of $2.9 million in development funding, and seven received a total of $1.3 million in marketing support.
Big Brother Canada previews its digital side
Shaw Media’s homegrown version of the international franchise will include an interactive platform that gives Canadians the ability to control the outcome of the show.
Cirque du Soleil to cut 400 jobs worldwide
The job losses follow the Quebec-based entertainment giant cutting five live shows in the last year and launching a content production arm with Bell Media.
Flashpoint, War Witch topline CSA noms
Bell Media’s cop drama, which ended its final season in December, topped TV with 11 nominations, while Kim Nguyen’s Oscar-nominated child soldier drama received 12 nods.
Blog: Four key takeaways of CES
From updates to the connected home to natural user interfaces, UM’s VP of digital Rebecca Shropshire shares her thoughts on the marketer trends at this year’s show.
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