Fall 2018

Playback’s Indie List: the year in review

This year's Indie List offers a snapshot of some of Canada's biggest production companies firing on all cylinders before the domestic screen...

Shirley Bowers, the company's VP of sales and acquisitions for North America, discusses boarding Blood Horn with DCTV and opportuni...

The auteur gained an international reputation for uncompromising, publicly funded films, and continues to build his body of work with more m...

The storied Canadian institution works to balance Norman Jewison's original vision with a mandate to equip alumni for a globalized, digital ...

Industry players like Telefilm Canada and CBC are coming up with some new ideas to help solve an age-old problem.

In the final part of our indie filmmaking series, the Kayak to Klemtu filmmaker discusses fostering new voices and the need to deli...

In part three of our indie filmmaking series, Wildling Pictures and director Robin Aubert discuss the decline in short-film funding and what...

In part two of our series on indie filmmaking in Canada, we chat with Matthew Johnson and Matthew Miller about Talent to Watch and reshaping...

In the first of a four-part series on indie filmmaking in Canada today, Playback talks to Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Maija Tailfeath...

With the Toronto International Film Festival set to kick off its 43rd edition, its outgoing CEO Piers Handling considers his legacy and the ...

With De Filippis' short For Nonna Anna and Ouaknine's work on fan-favourite Carmilla, both creatives are crafting LGBTQ+ n...

Reflecting on the recent evolution in Canadian indie film, celebrating rising talent and saying goodbye to an influential industry executive...

Meet the ambitious filmmakers and execs changing the Canadian film and TV landscape.