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CBC going for gold with Olympics coverage
CBC’s early coverage of the Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy has generated some big numbers since the Feb. 10 opening ceremonies.
Layfield in, Bernstein out at CBC
Deborah Bernstein is exiting her post as exec director of arts and entertainment at CBC, just as former Alliance Atlantis Communications exec Kirstine Layfield steps in as the net’s new top programmer.
CCTA calls it quits after 50 years
The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association is closing its doors after 50 years, saying that it can no longer keep up with the many telephone, Internet and wireless issues that have come to dominate the industry.
C.R.A.Z.Y., Richard lead Jutra pack with 14 noms
Montreal: Two Quebec box-office champs, C.R.A.Z.Y. and Maurice Richard, lead the nominations going into the eighth annual Prix Jutra. Each film garnered 14 nominations and will compete head-to-head at the Quebec film awards for best picture, best direction, best script and best actor.
$1M boost for Bell New Media Fund
The future of new media content looks rosier in the wake of new funding recently announced by Bell and Telefilm Canada.
Digital debate at KidScreen Summit
New York City: Applications of new media platforms in the kids production sector was the prevailing theme at the seventh KidScreen Summit, held in New York City Feb. 8-10.
Rocket man
Studio B Productions’ Being Ian (above) joins Decode Entertainment’s Naturally Sadie, Soapbox Productions’ Heads Up!, Halifax Film Company’s Poko and CCI Entertainment’s Harry and His Buck Full of Dinosaurs as the finalists for the 2006 Shaw Rocket Prize, honoring the best Canadian children’s program for the 12-and-under crowd. The producers of the winning show will receive $50,000. The finalists, selected by an international five-person jury, were announced on Feb. 9 at the KidScreen Summit in New York.
Docusoaps all the rage at Realscreen
Washington, DC: The way David Houts sees it, his Take This Job… was ‘one of the most successful failures’ on TV.
Lantos and Cronenberg all over ‘Maps’
Producer Robert Lantos and filmmaker David Cronenberg are collaborating for a third time on the feature film Maps to the Stars, written by longtime Cronenberg friend, novelist and Hollywood satirist Bruce Wagner.
NSI FilmExchange preps eighth run
Some of the latest and greatest work by alums of the National Screen Institute will unspool in Winnipeg next month at the NSI FilmExchange Canadian Film Festival.
ACT awards to focus on French-language shows
The Alliance for Children and Television has announced that its 2006 awards will honor excellence in French-language Canadian kids TV.
Briefs
AIDS conference calls for video proposals
Letters
Canuck or not Canuck?
Mixed reviews for Eve
Eve & the Fire Horse: Vancouver writer/director Julia Kwan’s debut feature film may have won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance, but Canadian critics are giving Eve & the Fire Horse mixed reviews.
Correction
A story in the Feb. 6 issue misspelled the name of Kirstine Layfield, CBC’s new executive head of programming.
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