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CSAs ’22: Pretty Hard Cases team talks casting strategy
Casting director Sharon Forrest and co-creators and EPs Tassie Cameron and Sherry White discuss the collaborative process of casting season one, which is up for 11 nominations this year, including six performance nods.
CSAs ’22: Canada’s Drag Race wins six awards on night three
Canada’s Drag Race dominated the lifestyle and reality categories, while multi-award winners in the children’s and animation awards included Corner Gas Animated, PAW Patrol and The Hardy Boys.
A transformational decade for the Canadian Academy
How the Canadian Screen Awards are striving to reinvent themselves at the 10-year mark.
Op-ed: Diversity is being used as a scapegoat for capitalism, and it’s time to talk about it
Jenn Paul, ACTRA National’s director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, writes that “making ‘diversity’ a scapegoat for business decisions is lazy, reductionist, irresponsible and dangerous.”
Pink Is In! gets season three greenlight from Bell Fibe TV1
Fibe TV1’s supervising producer says the comedy is among those helping the community channel punch above its weight.
CBC/Radio-Canada extends broadcast rights to Olympic Games
The long-term agreement will allow the pubcaster to ‘take some risks’ with the traditional broadcast model, says Chris Wilson, executive director of CBC Sports & Olympics.
Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs for March 21 to 27, 2022
Canadian series across CTV, Global, Citytv, CBC and HGTV make the top 30, including the premieres of Canada’s Got Talent and Island of Bryan.
Cineflix opts out of collective agreement in class action settlement
The company has decided to pay out $2.5 million to class action members, which a release from CWA Canada says is a “win-win” for factual workers.
CSAs ’22: 21 Black Futures wins big on second night
The series of stage monodramas produced by the Obsidian Theatre took four trophies in the Digital & Immersive category.
CRTC chairperson says Bill C-11 provides ‘a more flexible approach to regulation’
Ian Scott praised various aspects of the Online Streaming Act and addressed concerns about social media content regulation to a class at Ryerson University.
Quebecor merges distribution units, hires Cynthia Kennedy to lead division
Effective immediately, Kennedy will oversee the global sales and distribution strategies for Quebecor subsidiaries, including Quebecor Content, TVA and Incendo.
MIPTV Deals: Bell Media, FilmRise, Cineflix Rights
Bell Media, CBC and Corus Entertainment acquire new titles and the original The Kids in the Hall scores a streaming deal as day two of Cannes market MIPTV gets underway.
Wildhood navigates a wild theatrical market
A look at how Canadian Screen Award nominee Wildhood is using tools, including an FYC campaign, to gain attention after another year of pandemic upheaval.
Canadian doc filmmaker John Zaritsky has died at age 79
The Vancouver-based director’s esteemed career spanned 40 years and included an Oscar win for 1981’s Just Another Missing Kid.
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films for March 25 to 31, 2022
Au revoir le bonheur and The Lion and the Wolf (Le loup et le lion) continue to lead Canadian films at the box office.
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