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Pool to open Montreal fest
The upcoming Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois will open with the latest feature from award-winning director Léa Pool and wrap with Journal d’un coopérant, a web-based film by Robert Morin. Adapted from the novel Une belle mort by Quebec novelist and journalist Gil Courtemanche (A Sunday by the Pool in Kigali), Pool’s latest, La dernière fugue, tells the story of a family coming together over the Christmas season and dealing with a patriarch suffering from Parkinson’s Disease.
Jobs shuffled at NFB
The National Film Board is eliminating four positions in Winnipeg, while adding two to its overall operations in the Prairies. The changes, revealed by English-language boss Cindy Witten, are part of a reorganization aimed at broadening the board’s reach in the region.
Paperny and PBS to fight crime
Paperny Films is taking the lead on a new project aimed at uncovering and bringing to trial unsolved civil rights murders in the American South, in collaboration with California’s Center for Investigative Reporting and PBS.
National Film Board goes 3D
The NFB has added high-definition and 3D films to its online offerings in another bid to connect with Canadians through their computers. The board, which this time last year posted selections from its library online, has revealed high-definition versions of 26 titles and a handful of 3D shorts, viewable with special glasses.
New York eyes new tax break
Cash-strapped New York State is anteing up US$2.1 billion to get back into the film tax-credit game. Buried in the Empire State’s 2010/11 budget is US$420 million per year earmarked for film and TV production tax credits through 2014.
CEP takes a swing at Rogers, CRTC
Rogers has come under fire from Canada’s largest media union for its cuts to Citytv.
Honors abound abroad
Norman Jewison was recently honored by the Directors Guild of America with its lifetime achievement award. The director is only the 33rd recipient of the award in the DGA’s 73-year history; the last one to take the designation being Clint Eastwood in 2006.
Quebec upping tax break for effects
Following B.C.’s lead, province to give foreign shoots 20% off — and will include labor costs for freelancers
E1 readies Faith Evans series
Hip-hop singer to chronicle return to limelight after five-year absence. Emily Rose to star in Syfy series
Super Bowl hits six million on CTV
Sunday’s bout between underdog New Orleans and favorite Indianapolis breaks television records for CTV, CBS
Kids lose to Leafs, Lost
Death mini nosedives against beginning of the end for the survivors of Oceanic 815
Ottawa newsroom burns down
News archives destroyed at CTV affiliate in four-alarm blaze
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