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AAC unveils fall specialty sked
Alliance Atlantis has unveiled the fall programming for its slate of specialty channels, including the lineup for its newest, Fine Living Canada, set to launch Sept. 3.
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Black keynotes history confab
Five percent by 2006 not realistic
Each year Canadian producers come to TIFF in hopes of using the high-profile international festival as a launch pad for their features. The Canadian films presented at TIFF are theoretically the cream of the crop – the best of our national cinema.
Administering rights for the collective good
Marsha Henry is a lawyer in the Knowledge Management department of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch LLP.
Addendum
There were a couple of omissions in the Aug. 2 Post Quarterly feature ‘Canucks help post summer blockbusters.’ Toronto-based Dave Asling Miniature Effects was the miniature effects supervisor on the Twentieth Century Fox feature I, Robot, while Toronto’s Deluxe Sound & Picture provided dailies and sound mixing to the Alliance Atlantis release Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
Playback Readership Poll Results
Canadians still love their Olympics. In a recent online poll of Playback readers asking ‘Do you plan to watch the Summer Olympics on CBC, TSN, Radio-Canada and RDS?’, 71% of respondents voted yes. 18% answered that no, they don’t watch much TV in the summer, while 11% replied that they were more excited about the forthcoming World Cup of Hockey.
Canuck flicks mix with the world at TIFF 2004
Canadian film festival season is officially in high gear from coast to coast. Montreal’s World Film Festival is already underway, while the Atlantic and Vancouver events are ramping up for their kickoffs Sept. 17 and 23, respectively. But it is the 29th Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 9-18) that commands the most attention from the local film community and abroad.
McKellar muses on Hollywoods north and south
The year is 2000 and American Beauty has just taken Oscars for best picture, best actor and best original screenplay. Among the Hollywood elite attending the coveted after-party, one very talented and very Canadian Don McKellar is seen schmoozing in the crowd. Taking a breath at the bar, he meets one very young and very American actor named Haley Joel Osment. McKellar is completely unfazed by the fact that he’s engaged in industry banter with an 11-year-old who should seem completely out of place, alone at a bar so many hours past his bedtime. But this quintessential child star, who came to fame in 1999’s The Sixth Sense, is not out of place nor out of context, which is what strikes McKellar as so fascinating.
Just who is Michael McGowan?
As far as TIFF newcomer Michael McGowan is concerned, his feature Saint Ralph is in a perfect position.
Cowan readies for his close-up
In the weeks leading up to the 29th Toronto International Film Festival, Playback caught up with new festival codirector Noah Cowan. Cowan officially joined TIFF Group CEO Piers Handling as codirector Jan. 1, overseeing programming and administration for TIFF 2004.
Will Wilby be Wonderful?
Wilby Wonderful, an Ontario/Nova Scotia coproduction making its world premiere at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, marks the second time Halifax-based Palpable Productions’ Camelia Frieberg and Canadian theater maverick and director Daniel MacIvor have worked together. The film, coproduced with Toronto’s da da kamera pictures, is set on a fictitious Maritime island where the lives of residents intertwine, and stars a talented ensemble cast including Paul Gross and Jim Allodi.
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