International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam founder and director Ally Derks is to receive the 2011 Doc Mogul Award at the upcoming Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, organizers said Tuesday.
The Gimli Film Festival has appointed Cheryl Ashton as its new festival director.
Jeff Gomez, president and CEO of New York-based transmedia producer Starlight Runner, will be stopping in Toronto next week to host KidScreen’s Transmedia Bootcamp. Ahead of the workshop, he shares a few insights with Playback Daily.
Pick the night and let the app choose your film and theatre. That’s the aim with Cineplex Entertainment’s new mobile app, available as a free download for smartphones and select digital devices from Wednesday (November 24).
Another day, another record for TSN’s CFL numbers.
Hot Sheet: Top 20 Programs (November 8 – 14, 2010)
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian Films (November 12 – 18, 2010)
Hot Sheet: Top 10 Films (November 12 – 18, 2010)
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (November 1 – 7, 2010)
Looking for full status before the Ontario Labour Relations Board to resolve contract disputes, local unions and guilds on Monday gave their support to a private members bill in the Ontario legislature.
Quebec director Daniel Grou, also known as Podz, grabbed the top prize this weekend at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival for his coming-of-age indie film 10 1/2.
Canadian sketch comic John Catucci is hosting the Lone Eagle Entertainment’s You Gotta Eat Here! for Food Network Canada.
Chalk one up for the little guy: upstart Wind Mobile scored a victory Friday when the Competition Bureau slapped Rogers Communications with a lawsuit over a “misleading” advertising campaign for its discount Chatr text-and-talk brand.
Astral Media’s Super Ecran pay television channel will not face competition in the French-language market from TVA Group’s proposed pay TV movie channel Cine-TVA service, the CRTC ruled Friday.
Randy Quaid’s on-going bizarre journey to stay in Canada has taken him to Rogers Arena in Vancouver for an on-ice interview with Mark Critch of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.