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Keatley Films adds a reality appetizer to Godiva’s
Vancouver: Keatley Films is cooking up a little promotional innovation as a side dish to its new six-episode CHUM restaurant drama Godiva’s, set in Vancouver.
Depending on what’s on the menu for Canadian drama in 2005, Check, Please is planned as a six-episode talent search that will run concurrently with Godiva’s in January across the CHUM group of stations.
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Production underway on Yates’ sophomore feature
Winnipeg: Building on the buzz around Gary Yates’ first feature Seven Times Lucky, which gained considerable attention and a very positive review in Variety after its Sundance premiere, the Montreal director has returned to Manitoba to shoot his second feature, Niagara Motel, a dark comedy about people whose lives crisscross at a rundown motel in Niagara Falls, ON.
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Force Four’s Making it Big
Weaver and Greene re-team on fest flick Siblings
‘It felt right to continue our success,’ says Toronto director of photography David Greene of his collaboration with second-time feature director David Weaver on the dark comedy Siblings.
Kodak cinematography workshops
Kodak is offering five-day cinematography workshops for budding filmmakers in Toronto and Vancouver.
VIFF 2004 anticipates new Film Centre
Vancouver: This month’s 23rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival may be the last of its kind – or at least the last of its size – with the Vancouver International Film Centre opening for year-round programming business by next spring.
Pacific New Wave rides high in Canadian Images
Vancouver: With West Coast filmmakers such as Bruce Sweeney, Mina Shum, Lynne Stopkewich, Bruce Spangler, Scott Smith and Nathaniel Geary emerging over the last several years, Vancouver is home to what might be called the Pacific New Wave.
Documentary sidebar courts controversy
This year, the Vancouver International Film Festival received an uncommonly high number of documentary submissions tackling controversial issues – so many, in fact, that the fest has created a special program to showcase them.
Trade Forum swims with sharks
Vancouver: The business of filmmaking has often been compared to swimming with sharks. The 19th annual Film & Television Trade Forum at the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival takes that to heart, with a spotlight focus on the US$130,000 shark thriller Open Water and its American writer/director, Chris Kentis, the special guest of New Filmmakers’ Day, Sept. 25.
Less demand and higher expectations face new animators
With hundreds of young Canadians graduating yearly from animation schools, many will be facing a significantly tougher job search than they would have a decade ago. And in response to the diminished job market and changing recruitment needs of studios, educational institutions are adapting their training practices.
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NFB storms Ottawa fest
Big stars, big deals on tap for Toronto fest
Get your rest, stock up on eye drops, throat lozenges, PowerBars and Java beans, get out your celebrity-gawking glasses and put on your best schmooze face – TIFF is coming.
The 29th annual Toronto International Film Festival, which announced its final lineup Aug. 24, gets underway for 10 days starting Sept. 9 with opening-night gala Being Julia, starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons and produced by Robert Lantos.
Service shoots rock the box
The weather was cool, but the summer box office was hot this year for Hollywood films shot in Canada.
On the strength of blockbusters such as I, Robot and The Day After Tomorrow, service features made US$584 million for Hollywood this summer – up significantly from US$442 million last summer, and almost double the US$307 million of 2002.
Quebecor arms offer $46M for Toronto 1
The Little Station that Couldn’t got a new got owner in August, when two arms of the Quebecor media conglom moved in to buy Toronto 1, putting up $46 million to buy the troubled station from CHUM.
Sun Media and TVA Group have struck an agreement for T1 that, pending federal approval, could be finalized by spring 2005, handing TVA its long-sought entry to the English TV market and creating cross-promotional potential for local tabloid the Toronto Sun.
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