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ACCT continues to evolve as it celebrates silver
A glitzy, glamorous Oscars-style film awards show in Canada, celebrating the best in domestic movie talent on primetime TV? Even today, the notion rails against the ingrained humility and inferiority complex that lurks inside most Canadians. Twenty-five years ago, it seemed like a wildly overambitious pipe dream.
Twenty-five award-winning years
Maria Topalovich is president and CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
My most valuable Gemini Award
Jerry Ciccoritti is the eight-time-Gemini-winning director of such projects as The Many Trials of One Jane Doe and Trudeau.
`Non-party-girl’ Robert’s memories
Unlike many of her cohorts, Cinemaginaire producer Denise Robert actually remembers all the Genies and Gemeaux parties she’s attended.
‘Kisser’ Crewson glams it up
To keep its awards shows light and glamorous, all the Academy need do is continue giving prizes to Wendy Crewson.
Technicolor heats up T.O. post war
To the big foreign productions that have shot on Canadian soil, Toronto has basically been a one-horse town in terms of lab services. That is, until global giant Technicolor staked its claim in Hogtown, acquiring Command Post and Transfer, including its Toybox video and audio post and alphacine Toronto and Vancouver lab operations.
Canada’s hottest up-and-coming directors, actors and writers
Perhaps drama production is currently on the wane. But that does produce one positive side effect – it means that you have to be a pretty special talent to remain in the game. This year’s 10 to Watch ably proves that. Playback staff have pored over the rosters of local talent agencies and have chimed in with their own regional expertise to draw up a list of 10 men and women from across the country – helmers, performers and scribes – each on the verge of making noise in his or her respective craft. With talent like this, the future of film and TV drama appears to be in good hands.
Cronenberg makes History with Mortensen…
Toronto: Macabre-meister David Cronenberg has just begun prepro on the drama A History of Violence, by far his biggest production to date. The Toronto filmmaker will be helming Viggo Mortensen (Hidalgo, the Lord of the Rings trilogy) in the feature financed by New Line Cinema.
…while Egoyan makes Love with Bacon
Toronto: Atom Egoyan has gone a little bit Hollywood, hiring Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth to star in his latest feature Somebody Loves You, now in prep for a fall shoot in Toronto, L.A. and London.
Virgo’s tales of the city
Toronto: Clement Virgo rewinds the tape, and the woman on the bike zips backward, up a sun-washed street thick with trees. ‘Toronto is so beautiful in the summer, you never get to see the city like this,’ he says, watching the scene again. It’s always fall or winter in Toronto movies, he notes, and that’s too bad because everything and everyone comes out looking stale and lifeless.
Service
Production wizards reunite
Features
Poe-try in motion
Youth
Vancouver: Studio B Productions will bring a new version of Annie to the animated small screen for Family Channel. The Vancouver animation house is developing 26 22-minute eps about the spunky redheaded orphan for the eight- to12-year-old audience. In this version, Annie has outgrown her trademark red dress, but she’s still tackling the troubles of the world and fighting the most mysterious masterminds and clever criminals, according to Studio B.
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