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Surprises mark Genie noms
‘Unexpected’ is likely the best word to characterize this year’s Genie nominations. No doubt many will be surprised by what isn’t nominated. Absent among the best motion picture finalists are some of 2001’s most high-profile Canadian releases.
Nominated Films
Films Nominations
Strike matches CBC against technicians
All sides of a labor action at the CBC are girding for a long-term battle as both union and management hold firm to their respective positions.
Genies rules & regs evolve
Vancouver: For Canada’s Genie Awards, like any subjective contest, picking the best of the year’s films is a controversial act. But the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television that runs the awards gala remains adamantly apolitical.
Best pic noms span Nunavut to la belle province
Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
McQueen of broadcasting moves over and on
While Trina McQueen’s resignation as CTV’s president and COO and announcement that she will be retiring from the profession on which she’s so gracefully placed her mark sent shock waves through the Canadian industry in late November, the venerated ‘mother of modern broadcasting,’ as one collegue puts it, says she has no intention of falling off the radar screen.
No glam lighting required
Looking back on the Canadian feature film scene this year, one recurring image pops to mind: raw dirty sex. That is, sex behind a dumpster, shot so as not to expose the voluptuous nymphet on the bottom, but rather to highlight the less than graceful pumping of one white, jiggly, male ass on top, in Last Wedding.
Jump Cuts
Cdns head to Sundance
Playback Readership Poll Results
Last Wedding ranked the number one film of 2001 among Playback poll respondents.
People
* CanWest Global has appointed company vice chairman and former CEO Peter Viner publisher of the National Post. Viner will replace newspaper veteran Gordon Fisher, who’s been appointed president, news and information at CanWest.
Dalfen named new CRTC chair
Prime Minister Jean Chretien has appointed former CRTC vice chair Charles Dalfen as the commission’s new chairperson, effective Jan. 1, 2002.
Freshmen dominate director nods
Renny Bartlett – Eisenstein
New distrib Incendo Media opens
Montreal: Canada’s newest distributor, Incendo Media, expects to be a major player in all media platforms and is opening with a Canadian joint-venture agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution and an output deal for DreamWorks SKG movies in the Quebec theatrical market. Heading the new company are president and CEO Stephen Greenberg and executive VP Jean Bureau. Both men are also partners in production company JB Media.
Scribes vie for top honor
Paul Apak Angilirq – Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
Who will take home the hardware?
Following are the nominees for the 22nd Genie Awards as provided by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
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