Training

The Writers Lab Canada to launch at Female Eye Film Festival

The program offers a three-day intensive for women and non-binary writers over the age of 40.

WBD, Canadian Academy set third directors program cohort

Participants for 2024 include Romeo Candido, Darcy Waite and Stephanie Joline.

Canadian Academy selects seven executive residency participants

The program was created to help break down the barriers that currently exist for Black, Indigenous and persons of colour who are pursuing a corporate career.

Reelworld, NBCUniversal partner on directors program

The Directors Immersion Program will select four to six emerging directors for its four-month program.

CFC announces 19 for 2024 Norman Jewison Film Program

In all, nineteen participants make up the class of ’24 in director, producer, writer and editor labs.

Whistler Film Festival unveils 2024 Producers Lab cohort

The seven-month lab provides producers with development support and business training.

In Brief: WIFT-AT names 2024 Wave Award winners

Plus: FilmPEI sets the four projects for its 2024 Film4Ward program and Scarborough, Ont. recognizes two homegrown talents.

TIFF selects six participants for 2024 Writers’ Studio

The participants for the feature film development lab include five from Canada and one from the U.K.

PSP names 2024 Scripted Series Lab participants

The sixth edition of the Pacific Screenwriting Program’s scripted lab was led by showrunner-in-residence Michael MacLennan.

Canadian Academy names 2024 Quebec scholarship recipients

The Bourses de l’Académie pour la relève program provides paid internships for emerging creators.

Film Slate

Skills development initiative for Black creators launches in Quebec

Des créateurs pas comme les autres is created by Montreal’s Never Was Average in collaboration with the Fondation Dynastie and CMF.

AIFF, Telefilm select participants for Witness short film program

The initiative provides mentorship and training grants to Arctic Indigenous filmmakers to create short films focused on climate and community.