Mentorship

Whistler Film Festival doubles cohort for 2025 Screenwriters Lab

WFF has partnered with Capilano University to host the first phase of the program.

Sundance Institute selects Ryan Bobkin for Producers Lab

Bobkin is attending the Lab with his feature People You Follow, an adaptation of Hayley Gene Penner’s memoir of the same name.

Canadian Academy names 2025 executive residency cohort

The eight month program provides industry professionals who are Black, Indigenous or persons of colour with access to film and television executives.

DGC selects 10 delegates for AIFF coproduction market

The Atlantic International Film Festival delegation marks an east coast expansion for the Director Market Accelerator, an initiative of the DGC’s National Directors Division.

Whistler Film Festival names Producers Lab International cohort

The participants will travel to Ireland’s Galway Film Fleadh in July for a targeted business development mission.

Whistler Film Festival announces ScreenSask producers cohort

The six Saskatchewan-based participants will develop an original project over eight months and receive market exposure at the Whistler Film Festival.

CFC launches Comedy Series Lab with Bell Media, Blink49 Studios

Launching in the fall, the initiative pairs racialized and equity-deserving talent with a showrunner mentor to develop their skills and original comedy pilots.

Reelworld launches new career development program

The Access Reelworld Wage Subsidy Program will provide funding for the salaries of four mid-career, equity-deserving professionals at four Canadian production companies.

In Brief: Dark Slope expands support for Group Effort Initiative

Plus: Manitoba Film & Music appoints Steven Foster in director role, YMAs name Steven DeNure Scholarship recipient, and more.

NSI names cohort for 2025’s CBC New Indigenous Voices

As part of the program, the 10-person cohort will collaborate on a short film.

CFC selects 19 for 2025 Norman Jewison Film Program

The annual program offers training for emerging to mid-level Canadian directors, writers, producers and editors.

Teresa Alfeld named 2025 WIDC BANFF fellowship recipient

The Vancouver-based Alfeld is bringing a number of scripted projects to the festival.