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NFB uses security tech to create dance film ORA
Executive producer Rene Chenier talks to Playback about using Lockheed Martin’s infrared technology to create ORA, opening at TIFF.
Mehta to receive Canadian Centre for Diversity tribute
The award for veteran Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta will follow a sneak-peak preview of her big screen adaptation of Midnight’s Children at TIFF.
Ex-CTV anchor Tom Clark resurfaces at Global
Clark is to join the Global News team as the host of The West Block, a new Ottawa political talker.
ACTRA appoints new regional executive director
Daintry Dalton succeeds Raymond Guardia in the role.
eTalk rings in 10th anniversary
Executive producer Morley Nirenberg talks to Playback about the show’s new look, timed to launch in tandem with TIFF.
New T.O. recording facility satisfies ‘great need’: Dolgay
Screen Composers Guild president Marvin Dolgay comments on the opening of Noble Street Studios in Toronto.
Hockey star Wade Belak dead at 35
The hockey player was set to star in the CBC’s Battle of the Blades this fall. “We are shocked and saddened,” says CBC’s Kirstine Stewart.
Loewy bullish on Canadian film market: ‘We’re expanding’
The Maple Pictures acquisition is the latest sign Alliance Films is feeling good about the Canadian movie distribution game.
Crowdsourcing effort for A Little Bit Zombie nets $1.9 million
The Canadian indie sold frames in the film to around 600 people in 25 countries.
How a happy, clappy Geminis keeps cool in a crisis
Show producer Barry Avrich tells Playback about bringing The Late Show’s Gospel Choir to town and washing away past sins.
Ice Pilots, Nazi Hunters win big at Gemini Awards
Omni Film Productions, Cineflix Productions and Clearwater Documentary were among the multiple award winners at the first night of the awards.
Shandi Mitchell to shoot debut feature at sea
The Nova Scotia filmmaker is to lense The Disappeared for The Movie Network and Movie Central off the coast of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
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