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With no obvious replacement in the wings, I would like to propose that I take over in the top job at Telefilm Canada. Now that Wayne Clarkson is heading off to trek the Camino de Santiago and Michel Pradier has told me personally he is not applying for the job, there are many good reasons to consider an outsider for the role of executive director.

There’s nothing cliché about finding your passion and creativity – at least not for Sir Ken Robinson. And as the author of several books, including his most recent New York Times best-selling The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, you could say he knows a thing or two about the subject.

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+ Record-breaking box-office trends, not to mention the 3D epic Avatar, are lighting a fire under Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund. Fourth-quarter earnings to Dec. 31 popped 37% to $9.5 million, against a profit of $6.9 million in 2008, on revenue up 17% to $247.2 million, compared to a year-earlier $211.4 million. Despite the economic downturn, around 17.1 million Canadians went to the local cinema in the last quarter of 2009, up 12.3% from 15.2 million during the same period of 2008.

Derek Vanlint, the Canadian director of photography known from Los Angeles to London for shooting Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 sci-fi horror movie Alien, passed away at the end of February in Toronto, aged 77.

The Feb. 8 story ‘Hurt Locker lenser shot upcoming Citytv series’ listed Crash and Burn among Duraid Munajim’s credits. Munajim worked on season one of Crash ‘N Burn (retitled Crash Addicts).