Training

TIFF selects eight writers for the 2025 Writers’ Studio

The four-day lab runs from April 14 to 17 at the TIFF Lightbox.

GEMS reveals selections for 2025 Genre Film Lab

This year’s edition of the Gender Equity in Media Society program includes three projects from B.C. and one each from Ontario and Manitoba.

Fanshawe College suspends 40 programs starting in the fall

The cuts include programs focused on digital media production and broadcast journalism.

Final three Showrunner Catalyst participants announced

The CBC, BIPOC TV & Film and Canadian Film Centre program began in 2022 at the Banff World Media Festival.

In Brief: Deborah Cox named first BSO Award of Excellence recipient

Plus: Daniel Chan upped to agent at Connekt Creative, two Canadian shorts win at FIFEM, and more.

Women In the Director’s Chair sets latest CAM cohort

The eight directors hail from Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.

In Brief: Amuz Distribution renamed Just For Entertainment

Plus: APFC launches training programs for minority francophone creatives and a project from Gobez Media will compete in Burkina Faso.

Reelworld names 2025 Emerging 20 Program cohort

The Reelworld Screen Institute program provides workshops and mentorship geared towards producing a final script.

Twenty selected for third edition of Access BIPOC Producers

The program aids producers in their work to scale up their business and access the international market.

In Brief: Haida basketball doc to premiere at Big Sky Doc festival

Plus: The Pacific Screenwriting Program sets four showrunners for pilot initiative, Sundance Institute names Rhayne Vermette as a fellow, and more.

Black Women Film! Canada launches national program

The bilingual program launched its first stage on Jan. 16 in Montreal and is free to apply.

Nine set for NSI’s Business for Producers, Saskatchewan

Through the six-week program, the producers will build business networks and learn how to manage and create interprovincial coproductions.